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scentmaker

noun

Etymology

From scent + maker.

  1. inherited from maker
  2. compounded as scentmaker — “scent + maker”

Definitions

  1. A person who makes perfumes or other scented products.

    • […] 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.
    • […] she recommends the scentmaker to put each kind of scent up in ounce bottles and label it twenty shillings.
    • 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.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA