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The word perfume passed into English from Middle French and Provencal French parfumar "to scent". This evolved from Classical Latin per "through" and fumare "to smoke".

The earliest use of the term in the sense of "a fluid containing pleasant essences of flowers" in England is in the 1540s.

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