eau de parfum
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French eau de parfum.
Pronunciation
Noun
eau de parfum (countable and uncountable, plural eaux de parfum or eau de parfums or eaux de parfums)
- (perfumery) A solvent containing around 10% to 20% aromatic compounds.
- Synonym: parfum de toilette
- Coordinate terms: eau de Cologne, cologne
- 1987 October, Timothy Kalich, “Marketing: What's in a Smell?”, in The Atlantic[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 1 February 2023:
- The perfume market has always been a two-tiered one, with a relatively small number of buyers of small bottles of real perfume and eau de parfum that cost large amounts of money, and a larger number of buyers of somewhat larger bottles of cologne and eau de toilette that are considerably more affordable but not always cheap.
Translations
solvent containing around 10% to 20% aromatic compounds
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French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /o d(ə) paʁ.fɔm/
Noun
eau de parfum f (plural eaux de parfum)
- eau de parfum
- Synonym: EDP
Further reading
- eau de parfum on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr