perfumery

1. 1.

   perfumes in general

   Broaderperfume
2. 2.

   store where perfumes are sold

   Broadershop
3. 3.

   an establishment where perfumes are made

   Broaderestablishment
4. 4.

   the art of making perfumes

   Broaderart

Other forms of perfumery

plural

perfumeries·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about perfumery

What does perfumery mean?

perfumery means "perfumes in general". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in perfumery?

perfumery has 4 syllables: per-fu-me-ry. The stress falls on "fu".

Is perfumery a common word?

perfumery is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.