Ingredients · Citrus · top note
Mandarin oil, red
Sweet, juicy mandarin with a soft, grape-like, almost candied-floral depth.
- What it is
- Natural oil from cold-pressed peel of fully ripe mandarins.
- Where it comes from
- Italy, also Brazil
- When you smell it
- Top notes: the first minutes.
- What perfumers do with it
- Adds warm, round sweetness to citrus tops, fruity florals and gourmands.
- Worth knowing
- Mandarin is the one citrus oil with a pronounced floral side, sharing aroma molecules with orange blossom and Concord grape.
- Rules
- Limited. Limonene-rich: peroxide (oxidation) specification applies
- Also called
- Citrus reticulata ripe peel oil; red / yellow mandarin, mandarine rouge
Named by the house, not on the label, in 18
LibreYSL · “mandarin”
Musk TherapyInitio · “Mandarin”Memoir WomanAmouage · “Mandarin”Opus XV King BlueAmouage · “Mandarin”Love DelightAmouage · “Mandarin”RemainAmouage · “Mandarin”SìArmani · “mandarin”ErosVersace · “mandarin”
1 MillionRabanne · “Blood mandarin”Light Blue Pour HommeDolce & Gabbana · “Sicilian mandarin”Touch for MenBurberry · “mandarin tree”
LibreYSL · “mandarin essence”
Flora Gorgeous GardeniaGucci · “Italian Mandarin”
ValayaParfums de Marly · “Mandarin”Miss Dior Blooming BouquetDior · “ITALIAN MANDARIN ESSENCE”Million Gold for HerRabanne · “hand-pressed Mandarin Oil from Madagascar”FahrenheitDior · “Sicilian mandarin”
Neroli 36Le Labo · “mandarin orange”
1 MillionRabanne · “Blood mandarin”Light Blue Pour HommeDolce & Gabbana · “Sicilian mandarin”Touch for MenBurberry · “mandarin tree”LibreYSL · “mandarin essence”Flora Gorgeous GardeniaGucci · “Italian Mandarin”ValayaParfums de Marly · “Mandarin”Miss Dior Blooming BouquetDior · “ITALIAN MANDARIN ESSENCE”Million Gold for HerRabanne · “hand-pressed Mandarin Oil from Madagascar”FahrenheitDior · “Sicilian mandarin”Neroli 36Le Labo · “mandarin orange”