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Teen having trouble with the French perfume (10)

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I believe the answer is:

adolescent

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'teen' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are adjectives. Perhaps you can see a link between them that I don't see?

'trouble with the french perfume' is the wordplay.
'trouble' becomes 'ado' (I've seen this before).
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'the french' becomes 'le'.
'perfume' becomes 'scent' ('scent' can be a synonym of 'perfume').
'ado'+'le'+'scent'='ADOLESCENT'

'having' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for adolescent that I've seen before include "juvenile" , "Immature" , "One growing" , "Young person" , "sixth-former, say" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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