scentmaker
English
Etymology
scent + maker
Noun
scentmaker (plural scentmakers)
- A person who makes perfumes or other scented products.
- Synonyms: parfumier, perfumer
- 1846, J. Hewlett, Great Tom of Oxford, London: Colburn, Volume 3, Chapter 6, p. 238,
- […] he thought the odora canum vis—if the passage may be construed—“the agreeable smell of a dog-kennel” superior to any of the esprits sold and professed to be manufactured by Delcroix, or any other eminent scent-maker.
- 1911, Douglas Sladen, Oriental Cairo, London: Hurst & Blackett, Chapter 5, p. 75,
- […] she recommends the scentmaker to put each kind of scent up in ounce bottles and label it twenty shillings.
- 1956, Mary Renault, The Last of the Wine, New York: Pantheon, Chapter 26, p. 343,
- We would arrive and go through the civilities a scentmaker expects, sniffing the latest oil he was compounding, pronouncing it too heavy or too light or too musky, or sometimes, to keep him sweet, praising and buying.