perfumer

From perfume (noun and verb) +‎ -er, perhaps modelled on Middle French parfumeur.^[1]

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pəˈfjuːmə/, /ˈpəːfjʊmə/

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perfumer (plural perfumers)

1. A person who makes or sells perfume.
   • 1842, Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt:

     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.

2. One who perfumes something.

• parfumier, perfumier
• scentmaker

• perfumery

• prefemur

From perfum +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [pər.fuˈme]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [peɾ.fuˈmeɾ]

perfumer m (plural perfumers, feminine perfumera, feminine plural perfumeres)

1. perfumer

• perfumeria

• “perfumer”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “perfumer”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “perfumer” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “perfumer” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

perfumer

1. alternative form of parfumer