What is "perfumery"

Usage examples of "perfumery".

My wife, you are much mistaken if you think a citizen has paid his debt to his country by merely selling perfumery for twenty years to those who came to buy it.

On the 18th Brumaire, Monsieur and Madame Ragon, despairing of the royal cause, determined to give up perfumery, and live like honest bourgeois without meddling in politics.

During the first year Cesar instructed his wife about the sales of their merchandise and the details of perfumery,--a business which she understood admirably.

While the declining glory of perfumery was about to send forth its setting rays, a star was rising with feeble light upon the commercial horizon.

Sugar manages her side of the discussion better than she could have hoped, but then everything William knows of perfumery seems to have been cribbed from books and nothing from experience.

No, Sugar is in her rooms in Priory Close, forcing herself to plough on through The Art of Perfumery, by G.

It was the first time Grenouille had ever been in a perfumery, a place in which odours are not accessories but stand unabashedly at the centre of interest.

Naturally he knew every single perfumery and apothecary in the city, had stood for nights on end at their shop windows, his nose pressed to the cracks of their doors.

But by using the obligatory measuring glasses and scales, he learned the language of perfumery, and he sensed instinctively that the knowledge of this language could be of service to him.

He did not know that distillation is nothing more than a process for separating complex substances into volatile and less volatile components and that it is only useful in the art of perfumery because the volatile essential oils of certain plants can be extracted from the rest, which have little or no scent.

Sunday in summer, and from time to time received a box of perfumery or quack medicines, which he sold at a low price when occasion offered.

The final item had been a box embossed with the malleable logomot of a famous, elegant perfumery headquartered in the southern city of Quescal.

Victoria passed the doorway of an herb and root shop, where glass containers of leeches were lined along wooden shelves, and a perfumery with a window full of unguents, creams, and heavily fragrant oils encased in colored glass jars.

THREE William Rackham, destined to be the head of Rackham Perfumeries but rather a disappointment at present, considers himself to be in desperate need of a new hat.

Oh, certainly it was understood that the younger Rackham would eventually take charge of Rackham Perfumeries, but his grip on the reins would no doubt be all-but-invisible, and the public would see only his other, loftier accomplishments.