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Recent Examples of perfume
Irene Richardson,
InStyle,
29 June 2026
Any sweet scents—whether natural from flowers or manmade scented soaps and perfumes—attract wasps.
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Nadia Hassani,
The Spruce,
28 June 2026
Literary Hub,
3 June 2026
While historic details are celebrated, modern updates have been added, too, including aesthetic luxuries like hallways perfumed with a proprietary scent from Naxos Apothecary.
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Eleni N. Gage,
Travel + Leisure,
24 May 2026
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Noun
All this to say, scent is extremely personal, so if my picks aren’t tickling your fancy (or nose), consider some more unique summer perfumes below.
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Irene Richardson,
InStyle,
29 June 2026
Any sweet scents—whether natural from flowers or manmade scented soaps and perfumes—attract wasps.
—
Nadia Hassani,
The Spruce,
28 June 2026
Verb
To Curaçao, where the air was perfumed with dama di anochi blossoms and the night was navy blue.
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Literary Hub,
3 June 2026
While historic details are celebrated, modern updates have been added, too, including aesthetic luxuries like hallways perfumed with a proprietary scent from Naxos Apothecary.
—
Eleni N. Gage,
Travel + Leisure,
24 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for perfume
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Also known as fragrance stacking, layering means mixing scents to create your own custom blend according to Almira Armstrong, founder of Lumira.
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The dogs, specially trained to detect human scent, have spent days searching for people trapped beneath the rubble of nearly 200 buildings that collapsed following the two powerful back-to-back earthquakes.
Noun
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Dior and Louboutin also have luxury beauty lines, while Dior and Cartier have major fragrance businesses.
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There was also the Run space from WSN and ANDAM, featuring 12 designers across men’s, women’s, accessories and, for the first time, fragrance.
Noun
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His-and-hers hydrotherapy facilities each have a vitality pool, aroma-steam room, sauna, ice fountain and experience showers.
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Industry experts recommend choosing products based on aroma, terpenes, and considering THC as merely one factor among many.
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“Perfume.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perfume. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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