The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 10 letter word FRANGIPANI
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More clues leading to the result FRANGIPANI
- One brief scare after female called for perfume
- Travelling afar, pining for scent of the tropics
- Perfume female called Isis originally, after one Greek deity
- Perfume for female Indian of rank holding an animal back
- Fine Indian princess holding an animal up to get perfume
- Shrub in far gap in ground
- Some oaf rang; I panicked, smelling of jasmine
- Paganini’s intoxicated by French perfume
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The straight part
We know that "perfume" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case perfume = frangipani.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does FRANGIPANI mean?
FRANGIPANI noun- Any of several tropical American trees, of the genus Plumeria, having fragrant, showy, funnel-shaped flowers of a wide range of colours from creamy to red.
- A perfume originally obtained from these flowers