PERFUME Copy link • PERFUME 1. s. odor (general term): unguentum (unguent): tus (frankincense): perfumes, odores: perfumes (as article of commerce), merces odorum. 2. v. odoribus, unguentis, imbuere aliquid; odoribus perfundere aliquid: unguento perfricare (by unguents rubbed on or in): bonis odoribus suffire aliquid (Col., by burning perfumes): locum variis odoribus inficere (Sen., Vitr. Beat., 1, 11): to perfume one’s self, se unguere (Terentianus); se odoribus imbuere; caput et os suum unguento perfricare: to be perfumed, unguenta olere (Terentianus); unguentis delibutum, oblitum, esse (Cic.); unguentis affluere.