perfumer

A person who makes or sells perfume.

Noun

  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...
  2. One who perfumes something.

Origin

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

Forms

perfumers

Synonyms

parfumier perfumier scentmaker

Related

perfumery

Derived

perfumeress