perfumer
nounUK /pəˈfjuːmə/
Etymology From perfume (noun and verb) + -er, perhaps modelled on Middle French parfumeur.
1
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:
2
One who perfumes something.
- Synonyms
- parfumier, perfumier, scentmaker
- Derived terms
- perfumeress
- Related terms
- perfumery