Ingredients · Citrus · top note
Grapefruit oil
Bitter-fresh grapefruit zest with a tangy, slightly sulfurous juicy edge.
- What it is
- Natural oil from cold-pressed peel.
- Where it comes from
- USA (Florida, Texas), Israel, South Africa
- When you smell it
- Top notes: the first minutes.
- What perfumers do with it
- Brings a modern, energetic bitterness to citrus tops, especially in unisex and masculine fresh scents.
- Worth knowing
- The fruit arose in 18th-century Barbados as a chance hybrid of pomelo and sweet orange.
- Rules
- Limited. Phototoxic furocoumarins; capped in leave-on skin products
- Also called
- Citrus paradisi peel oil, cold-pressed; pink / white grapefruit
