What's the difference between attar and perfume?

Attar


Definition:

  • (n.) A fragrant essential oil; esp., a volatile and highly fragrant essential oil obtained from the petals of roses.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "It's hard to keep everything clean," said Attar, who is worried because one of the babies keeps vomiting.
  • (2) It was important for the dancers to be outside the stock exchange, Attar said, "because the people of that part of town have [now] seen two very different ways of expression and of using the public space that are both valuable and both necessary."
  • (3) "Bowie had to overcome a king, two queens and a political heavyweight to triumph in our poll, and in doing so has struck a blow for 20th and 21st-century fashions," editor Rob Attar said.
  • (4) The government was preoccupied with other things for the time being, added D-Caf's Attar.
  • (5) The committee includes the British Red Cross which invited Erksoussi and Sarc's president, Dr Abdul Rahman Attar, to London last week.
  • (6) Al-Attar was wounded by a mob at a police station and later brought to hospital, where Abbas said two doctors killed him.
  • (7) Their house has not been destroyed but the family is waiting for a permanent ceasefire before returning to what Attar calls "the frontline".
  • (8) Raed Attar played a major role in tunnel infiltrations, terror attacks that killed Israelis, and the kidnapping of [Israeli soldier] Gilad Shalit.
  • (9) We didn’t find water for two weeks.” Ghada S Al Attar “The whole country is fighting except Sana’a, who silently accepted the Houthis power over the Yemeni political situation.
  • (10) The two female Saudi competitors are Wodjan Ali Seraj Abdulrahim Shahrkhani in judo and 800-metre runner Sarah Attar.
  • (11) Saudi Arabia's Sarah Attar competes in the women's 800m heats at the 2012 Olympic Games in London.
  • (12) But for Amma Attar, who has spent more than a month living with 36 family members in a UN school in Gaza after fleeing her home amid shelling and shooting, it is close to a miracle.
  • (13) Attar and Shahrkhani were entered for the London Games by the Saudi Arabian Olympic Committee by Monday's deadline.
  • (14) Speaking to an Egyptian news presenter after the case ended , Al-Attar's wife, Magda Abbas, inadvertently cast further doubt on the strength of the prosecution by saying that her joy at the sentences was tempered by the fact that the two men who killed him were still in hiding.
  • (15) A deputy police commander, Mostafa el-Attar, was killed in the Minya violence, and it was for his murder and the attempted murder of two others that the 529 were sentenced to hang.
  • (16) It confirmed it had “eliminated senior Hamas terrorists Raed Attar and Mohamed Abu Shamala” but made no mention of Barhoum.
  • (17) "A big inspiration for participating in the Olympic Games is being one of the first women for Saudi Arabia to be going," the 17-year-old Attar said in an IOC video from her US training base in San Diego.
  • (18) Ahmed el-Attar, artistic director at Cairo's Downtown contemporary arts festival Photograph: Patrick Kingsley Husseini argues that the uprising made it easier for people to break taboos.
  • (19) Hamas announced the deaths of Mohammed Abu Shamalah, Raed Attar and Mohammed Barhoum on Thursday morning.
  • (20) The sentences caused global outcry on Monday after it emerged that the 529 had been convicted of the murder of officer Mostafa al-Attar last August in a case that lasted just two court sessions.

Perfume


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To fill or impregnate with a perfume; to scent.
  • (v.) The scent, odor, or odoriferous particles emitted from a sweet-smelling substance; a pleasant odor; fragrance; aroma.
  • (v.) A substance that emits an agreeable odor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) ", the name of the perfume, which is produced and distributed by Coty UK.
  • (2) The most frequent sensitizers observed included nickel sulphate, cobalt, Kathon CG, perfumes, potassium dichromate and balsam of Peru.
  • (3) For the second show in the Guardian’s 10-week radio series on NTS, Alexis talked to the Guide’s Kate Hutchinson about glam’s early innovators, forgotten outliers and its modern descendants: T Rex to David Bowie and Iron Virgin to Perfume Genius.
  • (4) The names she cites include Givaudan (perfume), Verifone (secure payment) and Premier Foods.
  • (5) The poster features an image of the singer sitting on the floor with her head and shoulders leaning against a wall and her legs raised against a large bottle of perfume.
  • (6) It is also important to be aware of perfumes and grocery products as causes of this phenomenon.
  • (7) Other reactions include consort dermatitis and reactions to toothpastes, gum and perfumes in paper products, sanitary napkins, ostomy pastes, and detergents.
  • (8) Although such materials are used for their fixative and odor qualities rather than their pheromonal effects, perfumes are generally marketed as having the ability to enhance sexual attractiveness.
  • (9) The loud ties, hideous jumpers, bottles of Drambuie, dubious perfumes and aftershaves, second copies of DVDs, panettones and stultifying board games are all an extension of that.
  • (10) Excessive afferent stimulation (flashing lights, noise, strong perfumes) or hypothalamic changes resulting from emotion, stress or the operation of some internal clock may set in motion brainstem mechanisms, including spontaneous unilateral or bilateral discharge of pain pathways.
  • (11) The 9.1% female reactivity may be traceable to perfumed cosmetics.
  • (12) It has all the metaphors of smoothness.” Sporting a glittering LV logo at the front door, it could also be a gigantic Louis Vuitton perfume bottle, smashed to smithereens.
  • (13) This week's edition of the FT's How to Spend It, suggests some Christmas foibles – £625 gloves, £705 Black Amber perfume, a £10,000 Boodles bangle.
  • (14) One Direction and Little Mix, managed by Simon Cowell’s Syco organisation, have an extensive portfolio of money-spinning activities from perfume to clothing ranges, make up and look-alike dolls.
  • (15) Contact dermatitis essentially involves those areas to which perfume is applied.
  • (16) The X Factor judge Tulisa may have thought she was harnessing the power of social media when she asked her 3 million Twitter followers to suggest names for her new perfume.
  • (17) When she uses public toilets, she likes to rub her vagina around the lavatory seat, and she has experimented with "long periods of not washing my pussy", to investigate its erotic impact - dabbing her own personal pubic perfume behind her earlobes.
  • (18) However, if the mother is perfumed prior to nursing, pups will learn to respond to the novel odor with the characteristic nipple-search behavior in just one 3-4 min nursing episode.
  • (19) During this time, the participants did not bathe or shower or apply any scent producing substance to their bodies, i.e., deodorants, perfumes.
  • (20) As part of an international cooperative study of the photophysical, photomutagenic and photocarcinogenic properties of bergamot oil and the effect of UVA and UVB sunscreens, the phototoxic properties of model perfumes containing 5, 15 and 50 ppm 5-methoxypsoralen (5-MOP) in bergamot oil with and without a sunscreen have been investigated on human skin.

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