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Ecclesiasticus 49:1

The memory of Josias is like the composition of a sweet smell made by the art of a perfumer:

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine)
Memoria JosiƦ in compositionem odoris facta opus pigmentarii.
Septuagint (Swete)
Verse numbering differs here, so nothing is shown rather than the wrong verse.

Haydock's commentary

Perfumer. The Scripture reproaches this king alone with no fault. (Calmet)

From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.