What's the difference between odour and perfume?

Odour


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Employed method of observation gave quantitative information about the influence of odours on ratios of basic predeterminate activities, insect distribution pattern and their tendency to choose zones with an odour.
  • (2) There was a clear relationship between the receptor responses and odour concentration.
  • (3) produced strong rotten, fishy, hydrogen sulphide off-odours.
  • (4) This may be managed in future by an odour-reducing minimal APS-addition under a 2%-application.
  • (5) • Rules requiring local authorities to investigate and abate noise, dust and odour nuisances will be liberalised or improved.
  • (6) Distinction was made between different types of odours (rotten, wood).
  • (7) These laboratory bioassay findings agree with field observations on tsetse responses to certain chemical odours.
  • (8) A substantial improvement in the rate of detection of organic lesions affecting the olfactory pathway can be achieved by substituting odours such as musk ketone, exaltolide, linalyl acetate and coumarin for those in current use.
  • (9) One month later the subjects underwent a second recognition test, at the end of which they were required to give an evaluation of the pleasantness of each odour on a nine-point scale.
  • (10) Diluted DOMESTOS proved to be a cleaning agent and germicide, but was, however, blamed for chlorine odour, especially when diluted with warm water.
  • (11) The patient developed a characteristic fish odour of his sweat, urine and to his breath after the consumption of choline-rich foods.
  • (12) Only ACB produced classical musk-like UAO (UAO + ve) in an in vitro odour-producing system with 29% being UAO -ve.
  • (13) Effective stimuli were the odours of cattle and sheep and high concentrations of carbon dioxide from dry ice.
  • (14) A fast method for such comparisons, based on volume matching followed by the estimation of comparable surface dots, is presented and applied on a few selected sandalwood odour molecules.
  • (15) The plug is made of a soft, pliable plastic material with open cells, containing a carbon filter which allows flatus to pass odour-free.
  • (16) This study examines the effect of synthetic cattle-derived odours, presented with Communicable Diseases Centre (CDC) miniature light traps for mosquitoes and also with sticky traps for sandflies, in Sri Lanka.
  • (17) A statistical significant training effect could be shown with the qualitative test for training of the odour memory as well as the articulation in describing of smell impressions.
  • (18) The results were analysed from two viewpoints: the role of odour as a warning against chemical hazard, a possibility of using the shift of sensation threshold of appropriately selected reference standards as a measure of discomfort created by odours in working environment.
  • (19) The activities of 45 RRUs were analyzed during sniffing in response to an odour stimulus.
  • (20) The maturation of the granule cells of the ferret olfactory bulb around the time of odour imprinting has been examined.

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.