How to Use perfumer in a Sentence

perfumer

noun
  • The French perfumer’s warm berry scent, Baies, is a crowd-pleaser (and the fragrance of choice for Iman).
    Ashley Weatherford, The Cut, 26 Oct. 2017
  • The perfumer’s kind of gardening doesn’t happen in the fields, but in a lab.
    Nerisha Penrose, ELLE, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Even with his name on the bottle, a perfumer has to work to make his presence known.
    Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Its roots trace to 1879, when founder Albert Krigler fell in love with the daughter of a French perfumer.
    Lucy Ladis, Dallas News, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Said scentscape functions as the brief that a maestro perfumer works with.
    Fortune, 30 Nov. 2019
  • The war caused a shortage of the perfume, as the perfumer, Ernest Beaux, could not grow the flowers to make the formula.
    Carrie Wittmer, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The perfumer, meanwhile, chose two gowns to wear on her wedding day.
    Shelby Wax, Vogue, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Christine Nagel, the perfumer for Hermès, is well aware.
    New York Times, 4 Feb. 2021
  • There are very few perfumers in the world, and they are known for their noses, and hers is very, very educated.
    Tara Duggan, SFChronicle.com, 30 Mar. 2020
  • Yovanovitch knows the owner—a perfumer with two young boys—and her family well.
    Ian Phillips, ELLE Decor, 21 Aug. 2015
  • Yovanovitch knows the owner—a perfumer with two young boys—and her family well.
    Ian Phillips, ELLE Decor, 15 May 2023
  • The brand worked with global fragrance house Firmenich and perfumer Frank Voelkl to study the science of smell.
    Tara Paniogue, latimes.com, 11 July 2019
  • It’s part of my job as a perfumer to create perfumes that stay on the skin for long, to make sure that the sillage [scent trail] is strong enough.
    Lindy Segal, Harper's BAZAAR, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Fashionista - Get in bed with (kind of) and get to know master perfumer Ben Gorham.
    Kerry Pieri, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Nov. 2011
  • Still, with L'Homme À la Rose , the master perfumer goes in a new direction.
    Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 21 Sep. 2020
  • My father was a perfumer, and my grandfather too: there were many of them at home.
    Felix Bischof, theweek, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Jolie, who became the face of Guerlain in 2017, has also been working with the French perfumer on the issue.
    Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Before the oil can be bought by top perfumers, roots must also be distilled to their essence in a process that takes more than 24 hours.
    Washington Post, 28 June 2019
  • These days, patchouli is an intrinsic part of the perfumer’s palette.
    April Long, Town & Country, 28 July 2019
  • At Plénitude, the chef works like a perfumer, seeking to evoke the range of emotion aroused by a unique scent, but through his own medium: sauces.
    Vivian Song, Robb Report, 16 Jan. 2022
  • The blush is scented a milky sandalwood, with arnica and green tea, a blend dreamed up by the house’s perfumer.
    Linda Wells, Town & Country, 16 Apr. 2021
  • As the film and its subject, perfumer François Demachy, take pains to explain, fragrances are transportive.
    Leah Prinzivalli, Allure, 22 Feb. 2021
  • The petals are replaced daily over the span of days or weeks, allowing the perfumer to introduce fresh oils to strengthen the scent.
    Lily Stewart, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 May 2024
  • French perfumer Diptyque's City Candles, designed to evoke the smells of the cities they are named after, tick both those boxes.
    Madison Flager, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Sep. 2020
  • Huber then worked with a perfumer to try and recreate the scents, revealing what these places might have smelled like thousands of years ago.
    Katie Hunt, CNN, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The master perfumer Barnabé Fillion grabs more chairs, and everyone sits for a while and catches up.
    Martin Bruno, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 Sep. 2021
  • The blend comes in a 750ml glass perfumer bottle, which is signed and numbered with the corresponding batch number.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 21 May 2021
  • Oud wood is one of the most precious and expensive ingredients for any perfumer, and this scent by Tom Ford nails the woody scent.
    Christian Allaire, Vogue, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Oud wood is one of the most precious and expensive ingredients for any perfumer, and this cologne by Tom Ford nails the woody scent.
    Christian Allaire, Vogue, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Some perfumers, like Roja Dove, cannot bring themselves to try to bottle tennis at all.
    Longreads, 9 Jan. 2018

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