Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
🌸 Smelling like perfume 🎭 Superficially attractive
perfumy

perfumy

4.9
A strong smell like perfume that you notice easily
  • adjective
  • /pərˈfjuːmi/
translation icon : perfumado
  • She wore a perfumy dress that reminded everyone of blooming flowers.

Examples

  • She had a perfumy scent of lemons.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • The garden was filled with a perfumy fragrance that attracted every passerby.

  • He could smell his own sweat, and it was cloying and perfumy.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • But I mean, when you're in here with the plants and all, the warm, perfumy smell, you feel like nothing bad could ever happen," Caroline sighed.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • The air in the room was thick with a perfumy scent from the lit candles.

Synonyms

fragrant
vsperfumy
34 2.2

Having a pleasant smell like flowers or soap

is less about manufactured fragrance and more about a simple pleasant smell
scented
vsperfumy
13 2.3

A thing like soap or a candle that has a pleasant smell because perfume was added

is similar but stresses a manufactured fragrance and stronger smell
aromatic
vsperfumy
12 4.1

Having a strong, pleasant smell like spices or flowers

is more specifically like a manufactured fragrance than a general aroma
musky
vsperfumy
9 5.5

A strong sweet smell that reminds you of an animal's scent

is less about manufactured fragrance and more about a specific animal-like note
perfumed
vsperfumy
5 4.1

Has a pleasant smell from perfume or flowers

is more specifically like a manufactured fragrance rather than a general smell
redolent
vsperfumy
2 7.6

Having a strong smell of flowers or baking

is more tied to manufactured fragrance than general source suggestion
redolent of
vsperfumy
2 7.5

A strong smell or feeling that makes you remember something

is instead focused on manufactured fragrance rather than general reminiscence
pleasant-smelling
vsperfumy
3.0

Having a nice scent

is milder and less specifically like manufactured fragrance
musky-scented
vsperfumy
5.8

A strong, warm, slightly sweet smell often used in perfumes

is narrower and less like a general manufactured fragrance

Antonyms

odorless
  • US
11 3.0

Not having any smell

foul-smelling
7 4.1

A very strong stink that makes you want to move away

How Fragrant

overpowering
18 4.6
perfumy
4.9
fragrant
34 2.2
scented
13 2.3

Surface Forms

perfumy positive

Morphology

perfumy = perfume (transparent) = perfume + y

The adjective meaning 'having a noticeable perfume' follows the straightforward pattern perfume + -y, so learners can derive the meaning.

Etymology

Perfumy comes from the word perfume, which once meant 'through smoke' and now means a strong 'scent'. So perfumy describes something that smells strongly like perfume.