—n.
1 a sweet smell.
2 fluid containing the essence of flowers etc.; scent.
—v.tr. also (usu. as perfumed adj.) impart a sweet scent to; impregnate with a sweet smell.
Derivatives:
perfumy adj.
Etymology: F parfum, parfumer f. obs. It. parfumare, perfumare (as PER-, fumare smoke, FUME): orig. of smoke from a burning substance
Useful english dictionary. 2012.