mass noun
1- a fragrant liquid typically made from essential oils extracted from flowers and spices, used to impart a pleasant smell to one's body or clothes香水：
I caught a whiff of her fresh lemony perfume
我闻到了她身上的一股清新柠檬香水味
count noun musk-based perfumes.麝香味的香水。
1.1
- a pleasant smell香气, 芳香：
the heady perfume of lilacs.
浓烈的紫丁香香气。
/亦读pəˈfjuːm/
with obj.
1- impart a pleasant smell to向…散发香气：
just one bloom of jasmine has the power to perfume a whole room.
仅仅一朵茉莉花就可以使整个房间充满香气。
1.1
- （一般作be perfumed）impregnate (something) with perfume or a sweet-smelling ingredient使充满香气（或香料）：
the cream is perfumed with rosemary and iris extracts.
那乳霜有迷迭香和鸢尾提取物的香味。
1.2
- apply perfume to (someone or something)洒香水于：
her hair was oiled and perfumed.
她的头发抹了油并洒了香水。
派生词
perfumy
adjective词源
mid 16th cent. （originally denoting pleasant-smelling smoke from a burning substance, especially one used in fumigation）： from French parfum (noun), parfumer (verb), from obsolete Italian parfumare, literally 'to smoke through'.