How to Use perfume in a Sentence

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• She smelled the different perfumes at the store.
• Most of us know that the best perfumes pack the most punch with the least amount of product.
  — Josie Howell | [e-mail], al, 21 Mar. 2023
• Check out more of the best perfumes to gift this this year here.
  — Anna Tingley, Variety, 22 Jan. 2024
• But the basic idea is to shift the blame from the perfume to the reaction.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2023
• Stores ditched the loud music and thick clouds of perfume.
  — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2024
• The hot-girl perfume of the year, Paradoxe is warm and sweet with just the right amount of floral.
  — Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 17 Sep. 2023
• The smell of vomit mixed with the scent of perfume and coffee grinds, which were put in the seat pouch to mask the smell.
  — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2023
• Didn’t shop the best Prime Day perfume deals back in July?
  — Andrea Navarro, Glamour, 6 Sep. 2023
• Then there is the old bottle of Jicky, the world’s first modern perfume.
  — Thomas Adamson, Fortune, 9 June 2023
• And that's not even the most expensive perfume in this roundup.
  — Jamie Wilson, harpersbazaar.com, 25 Apr. 2023
• In 2021, the brand released its first product, a perfume oil.
  — Lia Beck, Peoplemag, 12 Aug. 2023
• Is there a polite way to tell her that her perfume is too strong and ask her to tone it down?
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2023
• Mix in the perfume of cooked meat and music blared at club volume.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 17 May 2023
• The sun is blazing down, like a glorious lemon cake, and the air smells sweet, like palm tree wood and perfume.
  — Daisy Jones, Vogue, 10 Aug. 2023
• Dozens of women in fancy attire show up for a perfume launch in the center of Ukraine’s third-largest city.
  — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Mar. 2023
• Of course, bottles of perfume will also be available to buy.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 30 Aug. 2023
• The lilac's scent is what makes lilac a stand-out plant in the garden—its scent is stronger in full sun and is commonly used in perfumes and soaps.
  — Jenny Krane, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 June 2023
• But the problem doesn’t stop with snail slime; there are allegedly fake brand-name perfumes and trendy to-go cups.
  — WIRED, 19 Sep. 2023
• The formula goes to a lab, where the perfume is initially made, and then the team presents it to the client, who may love it or send it back to be reworked.
  — Pia Velasco, Allure, 9 Jan. 2024
• While flowers, perfume, and chocolate have long topped the list of the most popular gifts for moms, things have changed over the years, and today, the sky’s the limit.
  — Sharon Brandwein, Southern Living, 21 Sep. 2023
• The perfume has settled into the couch, a final parting gift that conditions the leather just a bit.
  — Arabelle Sicardi, Allure, 28 Sep. 2023
• This perfume comes in a luxe glass bottle and features notes of nude musk and sweet rose for an everyday scent.
  — Jessie Quinn, Peoplemag, 4 Feb. 2024
• This perfume evokes images of sticky limoncello and salty sea air, built around lemon and bergamot with a smidge of soft rose.
  — ELLE, 1 Aug. 2023
• As her latest chapter in beauty, the perfume is the ideal gift for the holidays.
  — India Espy-Jones, Essence, 27 Nov. 2023
• In the olden days, people applied perfume and talcum powder to try to cover up the smell of BO.
  — WIRED, 30 Sep. 2023
• But the allure of the perfumes goes far beyond the expense of the ingredients and packaging.
  — Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 30 Nov. 2023
• Despite that claim, Marie Antoinette loved flowers, and was at the heart of the development of perfume.
  — Thomas Adamson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2023
• From home decor to mattress deals to luxury perfumes, thousands of picks (and counting) are up to 50% off.
  — Melanie Curry, Glamour, 22 Nov. 2023
• The main ingredient in this DIY perfume was vanilla extract.
  — Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 27 Mar. 2024
• Vernon knows that some of her clients use perfume as a tool to embody their truest self, and others use it like playing dress-up, sharing a different iteration of their identity.
  — Alice Wolfe, Allure, 15 Mar. 2024

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• The meal included a delicate fish perfumed with butter and herbs.
• The smell of these muffins baking will perfume your whole kitchen and draw all the children near.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 3 July 2023
• Allow garlic to perfume the oil and then add the beans.
  — Brooke Parkhurst, Redbook, 31 July 2012
• The thyme perfumes the broth, and a little butter and Parmesan rounds out the lean corn.
  — Ben Mims, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2023
• Two heaping cups of basil, which will wilt and perfume the whole pot.
  — Aliza Abarbanel, Bon Appétit, 30 July 2019
• India made them the star of many dishes, adding bright chiles and spices to perfume their starchy flesh.
  — Emily Spicer, ExpressNews.com, 4 June 2019
• While both serve the usual and are perfumed at most hours by kif smoke, do not confuse the two names.
  — Graham H. Cornwell, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2023
• The sheets feel starched and clean, the pillows are abundant and fluffy, the air itself is perfumed, and wow, oh wow, the towels.
  — Kaitlin Menza, House Beautiful, 13 Dec. 2019
• At once crispy and yielding and chewy, it was shot through with toasty walnuts and perfumed with anise seeds.
  — Amiel Stanek, Bon Appétit, 13 June 2019
• Thousands of fresh flowers perfume the hall with a rosy scent.
  — Staff Author, Travel + Leisure, 30 Dec. 2023
• The cake layers are perfumed with a subtle hint of lemon, and the frosting is light and fluffy with more intense lemon notes.
  — Pam Lolley, Southern Living, 6 June 2023
• By mid-summer, the air was perfumed with ripe apricots and the sickly sweetness of the fallen fruits.
  — Grace Hwang Lynch, SFChronicle.com, 31 Oct. 2019
• The Golden Flight package picks you up in a plane perfumed with calming sweet basil oil.
  — Nicola Chilton, Robb Report, 2 Apr. 2023
• Flowers, piles of chocolate and open bottles of red wine perfumed the air; guests helped themselves to the red wine but shied from the food.
  — Tony Bravo, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Feb. 2018
• There is no need to sweep the Confederacy under the rug or to perfume it.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 19 June 2023
• The scent of sage perfumed the air, and bursts of red foliage punctuated the gray-green grasslands.
  — Beth J. Harpaz, chicagotribune.com, 5 July 2018
• Whether dried or fresh, fenugreek will add its signature sweet-bitter scent to the dish — and perfume your whole home as the rice cooks.
  — G. Daniela Galarza, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2023
• While candles wield the power to make a space much cozier by perfuming the air, not all of them are built the same.
  — Leena Kim, townandcountrymag.com, 1 June 2023
• The buttery crust here, made in a food processor, is mixed with fresh basil, which perfumes the pastry.
  — Jill Gibson, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2018
• Seasonal fennel joins the fruit, along with onion, garlic, ginger, and herbs and spices to perfume the meat and pan sauce.
  — New York Times, 9 Nov. 2021
• The place was like a courtier in the Palace of Versailles, constantly powdered and perfumed to mask the unpleasant odor beneath.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2023
• The night blooming jasmine will perfume the patio and penetrate the house.
  — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 12 July 2019
• Meg Ryan said to her date, the designer Christian Siriano, as an acrid smell perfumed the preshow cocktail hour.
  — Matthew Schneier, New York Times, 6 June 2017
• This liquid gold adds richness to your recipes like no other and perfumes your recipes with a hint of smokiness.
  — Saveur Editors, Saveur, 2 May 2017
• Hike Milagra or Sweeney Ridge and notice how the wildflowers perfume the air.
  — Ginny Prior, The Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2017
• Another idea is to place a seating area near a fence where a vine such as honeysuckle can perfume the area.
  — Cindy Sutter, The Denver Post, 21 Apr. 2017
• The aroma is more perfumed; like smelling a rose and then smelling rose essential oil, they are cut from the same cloth but a very different pattern.
  — Abra Berens, Bon Appétit, 24 July 2023
• The stench wafting from the tree's billows of white blossoms has been compared to perfume gone wrong, rotting fish, chlorine, and a cheese sandwich left in a car for a week.
  — CBS News, 22 Apr. 2022
• Around Nagoya, famous for its groves, the surface of the water might be abob with bright crimson apples, the fruit lightly perfuming the air.
  — Hanya Yanagihara, Town & Country, 8 Dec. 2017
• The slowly bubbling cauldron gradually perfumes the air through the night, spreading through the sleeping house like an open secret.
  — Benjamin Dubow, Longreads, 20 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024