Perfuse vs. Perfume — What's the Difference?

Permeate or suffuse with a liquid, colour, or quality

Perfume (UK: , US: ; French: parfum) is a mixture of fragrant essential oils or aroma compounds, fixatives and solvents, usually in liquid form, used to give the human body, animals, food, objects, and living-spaces an agreeable scent. The 1939 Nobel Laureate for Chemistry, Leopold Ružička stated in 1945 that "right from the earliest days of scientific chemistry up to the present time perfumes have substantially contributed to the development of organic chemistry as regards methods, systematic classification, and theory."Ancient texts and archaeological excavations show the use of perfumes in some of the earliest human civilizations.

To coat or permeate with liquid, color, or light; suffuse.

A fragrant liquid typically made from essential oils extracted from flowers and spices, used to give a pleasant smell to one's body

To pour or diffuse (a liquid, for example) over or through something.

Give a pleasant smell to

(transitive) To permeate or suffuse something, especially with a liquid or with light.

A substance that emits and diffuses a fragrant odor, especially a volatile liquid distilled from flowers or prepared synthetically.

(transitive) To force a fluid to flow over or through something, especially through an organ of the body.

A pleasing, agreeable scent or odor.

To suffuse; to fill full or to excess.

To fill or permeate with fragrance; impart a pleasant odor to.

Force a fluid through (a body part or tissue);

A pleasant smell; the scent, odor, or odoriferous particles emitted from a sweet-smelling substance; a pleasant odor

Cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across;

(cosmetics) A substance created to provide a pleasant smell or one which emits an agreeable odor.

(transitive) To apply perfume to; to fill or impregnate with a perfume; to scent.

To fill or impregnate with a perfume; to scent.

The scent, odor, or odoriferous particles emitted from a sweet-smelling substance; a pleasant odor; fragrance; aroma.

A substance that emits an agreeable odor.

A toiletry that emits and diffuses a fragrant odor

A distinctive odor that is pleasant

Fill or impregnate with an odor;

Apply perfume to;