
A bottle of perfume
- Perfume is defined as a nice smell, or a substance created to produce a nice smell.
An example of perfume is the scent of potpurri.
- Perfume means to give a nice smell to something.
An example of perfume is to put body spray on your body.
perfume

transitive verb
-·fumed′, -·fum′ing- to fill with a fragrant or pleasing odor; scent
- to put perfume on; dab, spray, etc. with perfume
Origin of perfume
Middle French parfumer from Italian perfumare from Classical Latin per-, intensive + fumare, to smoke from fumus, smoke: see fume- a pleasing smell or odor; sweet scent, as of flowers; fragrance
- a substance producing a fragrant or pleasing odor; esp., a volatile oil, as that extracted from flowers, or a substance like this prepared synthetically
Origin of perfume
MFr parfum < the v.perfume

noun
- A substance that emits and diffuses a fragrant odor, especially a volatile liquid distilled from flowers or prepared synthetically.
- A pleasing, agreeable scent or odor. See Synonyms at fragrance.
transitive verb
per·fumed, per·fum·ing, per·fumesTo fill or permeate with fragrance; impart a pleasant odor to.
Origin of perfume
French parfum from Old Italian parfumo from parfumare to fill with smoke par- intensive pref. ( from Latin per- per- ) fumare to smoke ( from Latin fūmāre ) ( from fūmus smoke )perfume

Noun
(plural perfumes) Perfume on Wikipedia.
Verb
(third-person singular simple present perfumes, present participle perfuming, simple past and past participle perfumed)
- To apply perfume to; to fill or impregnate with a perfume; to scent.