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Definition of "perfumery" [per•fum•er•y]

  • Perfumes. (noun)
  • An establishment that makes or sells perfume. (noun)
  • The art of making perfume. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "perfumery" in a sentence
  • ""confine the term perfumery" to various odoriferous substances, and exclude scented soaps; because he would be aware that one-third of the returns of every manufacturing perfumer is derived from perfumed soap."
  • "I do however emphatically exclude from the term perfumery, "groceries,"
  • "Lush and unapologetically seductive, Andy Warhol Lexington Avenue dares (perhaps for the first time in perfumery) to link two of the most ultra-feminine commodities a woman can own: fragrance and footwear."