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scentmaker

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Etymology

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From scent +‎ maker.

Noun

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scentmaker (plural scentmakers)

  1. A person who makes perfumes or other scented products.
    Synonyms: parfumier, perfumer
    • 1846, J. Hewlett, chapter 6, in Great Tom of Oxford[1], volume 3, London: Colburn, page 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, chapter 5, in Oriental Cairo[2], London: Hurst & Blackett, page 75:
      [] she recommends the scentmaker to put each kind of scent up in ounce bottles and label it twenty shillings.
    • 1956, Mary Renault, chapter 26, in The Last of the Wine[3], New York: Pantheon, page 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.