
Ingredients · Citrus · top note
Blood orange oil
Sweet orange with a tart, berry-like, slightly jammy twist.
- What it is
- Natural oil from cold-pressed peel of red-fleshed oranges.
- Where it comes from
- Sicily (Italy)
- When you smell it
- Top notes: the first minutes.
- What perfumers do with it
- Brings a juicier, redder fruit tone to citrus tops and fruity-floral openings.
- Worth knowing
- The red flesh comes from anthocyanins that need cold nights to form, as around Sicily's Mount Etna.
- Rules
- Limited. Limonene-rich: peroxide (oxidation) specification applies
- Also called
- Citrus sinensis (Tarocco, Moro, Sanguinello) peel oil
Named by the house, not on the label, in 1