scentmakerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

scent +‎ maker

名詞

scentmaker (複数形 scentmakers)

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

   Synonyms: parfumier, perfumer

   • 1846, J. Hewlett, Great Tom of Oxford, London: Colburn, Volume 3, Chapter 6, p. 238,^[1]

     […] 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, Oriental Cairo, London: Hurst & Blackett, Chapter 5, p. 75,^[2]

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

   • 1956, Mary Renault, The Last of the Wine, New York: Pantheon, Chapter 26, p. 343,^[3]

     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.