Meanings
plural perfumers
- A person who makes or sells perfume.
Affairs went on thus until the latter had attained her twenty-second year, when her great beauty attracted the notice of a perfumer, who occupied one of the shops in the basement of the Palais Royal, and whose custom lay chiefly among the desperate adventurers infesting that neighborhood.
1842, Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt - One who perfumes something.
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Middle Frenchparfumeur
- Englishperfumer
From perfume (noun and verb) + -er, perhaps modelled on Middle French parfumeur.
More words from Middle French
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Ancient Greek μυρεψός
- μυρεψός (murepsós)person who makes or sells perfume
Arabic عَطَّار, عَطَّارَة
- عَطَّار (ʕaṭṭār)person who makes or sells perfume
- عَطَّارَة (ʕaṭṭāra)person who makes or sells perfume
Catalan perfumer
- perfumerperson who makes or sells perfume
Chinese Mandarin 香水製造商 /香水制造商, 售香水者
- 香水製造商 /香水制造商 (xiāngshuǐ zhìzàoshāng)person who makes or sells perfume
- 售香水者 (shòu xiāngshuǐ zhě)person who makes or sells perfume
Finnish hajuvesimyyjä, parfymisti
- hajuvesimyyjäperson who makes or sells perfume
- parfymistiperson who makes or sells perfume
- parfymööriperson who makes or sells perfume
French parfumeur, parfumeuse
- parfumeurperson who makes or sells perfume
- parfumeuseperson who makes or sells perfume
German Parfümeur
- Parfümeurperson who makes or sells perfume
Irish ungadóir
- ungadóirperson who makes or sells perfume
Italian profumiere
- profumiereperson who makes or sells perfume
Japanese パフューマー, 調香師
- パフューマー (pafyūmā)person who makes or sells perfume
- 調香師 (chōkōshi)person who makes or sells perfume
Korean 조향사
- 조향사 (johyangsa)person who makes or sells perfume
Latin unguentārius
- unguentāriusperson who makes or sells perfume
Persian عطار, عطرفروش
- عطار ('attâr)person who makes or sells perfume
- عطرفروش ('atr-foruš)person who makes or sells perfume
- عطرساز ('atr-sâz)person who makes or sells perfume
- بوفروش (būforūš)person who makes or sells perfume
Portuguese perfumista
- perfumistaperson who makes or sells perfume
Romanian parfumier, parfumieră
- parfumierperson who makes or sells perfume
- parfumierăperson who makes or sells perfume
Russian парфюме́р
- парфюме́р (parfjumér)person who makes or sells perfume
Spanish perfumista
- perfumistaperson who makes or sells perfume
Turkish parfümcü
- parfümcüperson who makes or sells perfume
Rhymes & wordplay
Anagrams
Cite this entry
perfumer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/perfumer
“perfumer.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/perfumer. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “perfumer,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/perfumer.
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