eau de parfum

English

The eau de parfum version of Nº 5

Etymology

Borrowed from French eau de parfum.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌəʊ.də.pɑːˈfʌm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌoʊ.də.pɑːrˈfʌm/

Noun

eau de parfum (countable and uncountable, plural eaux de parfum or eau de parfums or eaux de parfums)

1. (perfumery) A solvent containing around 10% to 20% aromatic compounds.

   Synonym: parfum de toilette

   Coordinate terms: eau de Cologne, cologne

   • 1987 October, Timothy Kalich, “Marketing: What's in a Smell?”, in The Atlantic‎^[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 1 February 2023:

     The perfume market has always been a two-tiered one, with a relatively small number of buyers of small bottles of real perfume and eau de parfum that cost large amounts of money, and a larger number of buyers of somewhat larger bottles of cologne and eau de toilette that are considerably more affordable but not always cheap.

Translations

solvent containing around 10% to 20% aromatic compounds

• Czech: parfémovaná voda f
• Finnish: eau de parfum, parfyymivesi
• French: eau de parfum (fr) f
• Polish: woda perfumowana (pl) f
• Russian: парфюме́рная вода́ f (parfjumérnaja vodá)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o d(ə) paʁ.fœ̃/

Noun

eau de parfum f (plural eaux de parfum)

1. eau de parfum

   Synonym: EDP

Further reading

• eau de parfum on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr