Perfume that sounds verboten

The answer

TABU

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TABU answer page.

Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2017; first recorded in 2007. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for TABU

Every other clue in this collection answered by TABU, most used first.

• Forbidden - used 63 times, most recently in 2018
• Forbidden perfume? - used 38 times, most recently in 2025
• Verboten - used 24 times, most recently in 2006
• No-no - used 20 times, most recently in 2008
• Popular cologne - used 15 times, most recently in 2010
• Forbidden perfume brand? - used 14 times, most recently in 2016
• Forbidden: Var. - used 14 times, most recently in 2015
• Prohibition - used 14 times, most recently in 2001
• Prohibited - used 13 times, most recently in 2009
• Perfume by Dana - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• "The forbidden fragrance" - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
• Freud's "Totem und ___" - used 9 times, most recently in 1991
• Off-limits - used 8 times, most recently in 2007
• Ban. - used 7 times, most recently in 1997
• Interdiction. - used 7 times, most recently in 1981
• Perfume brand - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
• Verboten: Var. - used 6 times, most recently in 2014

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• For fear that - LEST, used 503 times
• In that case - IFSO, used 231 times
• "___ Well That Ends Well" - ALLS, used 158 times
• At that time - THEN, used 134 times
• "That makes sense" - ISEE, used 132 times
• "___ there, done that" - BEEN, used 123 times

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