perfume
US: /pɝfˈjum/
English Vietnamese dictionary
perfume /'pə:fju:m/
- danh từ
- hương thơm; mùi thơm
- nước hoa; dầu thơm
- ngoại động từ
- toả hương thơm vào, toả mùi thơm vào (không khí...)
- xức nước hoa vào (khăn tay, tóc...)
Advanced English dictionary
noun, verb
+ noun
[C, U]
1 a liquid, often made from flowers, that you put on your skin to make yourself smell nice: a bottle of expensive perfume + We stock a wide range of perfumes. + the perfume counter of the store + There was strong smell of cheap perfume in the car.
2 a pleasant, often sweet, smell: the sweet / heady perfume of the roses
+ verb [VN] [often passive] ~ sth (with sth)
1 (literary) (especially of flowers) to make the air in a place smell pleasant: The garden was perfumed with the smell of roses. + One bloom has the power to perfume a whole room.
2 to put perfume in or on sth: She perfumed her bath with fragrant oils.
perfumed adjective: perfumed soap / paper / candles
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 essence, extract, parfum, eau-de-Cologne, toilet water, scent, fragrance; aroma, odour, smell, bouquet, nose:
What is that wonderful perfume you're wearing? The perfume of the wine wafted over to me.
v.
2 scent:
Orange blossoms perfumed the air.
Collocation dictionary
1 liquid with a sweet smell that you put on your body
ADJ.
expensive | cheap | strong | subtle | fragrant, sweet | exotic | musky | stale
QUANT.
bottle
VERB + PERFUME
use, wear | dab on, put on, spray on
She dabbed some perfume on her wrists.
| smell | reek of, smell of
She reeked of cheap perfume.
PERFUME + NOUN
bottle | company, house
PHRASES
a waft/whiff of perfume
He caught a faint whiff of her expensive French perfume.
2 pleasant smell
ADJ.
sweet | heady, strong | delicate, faint | exotic, strange
VERB + PERFUME
smell | give off, release
The lilies release their heady perfume in the evening.
PERFUME + VERB
fill sth
The perfume of the roses filled the room.
Concise English dictionary
perfumes|perfumed|perfumingpər'fjuːm ,pɜr' /pɜː-
noun
+a toiletry that emits and diffuses a fragrant odor
+a distinctive odor that is pleasant
verb
+fill or impregnate with an odor
+apply perfume to
