perfume

Universal Words 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] [oftenpassive] ~ 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