
Ingredients · Citrus · top note
Sweet orange oil
Juicy, sweet orange peel; bright and cheerful but thin, fading fast.
- What it is
- Natural oil from cold-pressed peel, a juice-industry by-product.
- Where it comes from
- Brazil, USA (Florida), Mexico
- When you smell it
- Top notes: the first minutes.
- What perfumers do with it
- Adds sunny sweetness to citrus accords and gourmands; bulks up colognes cheaply.
- Worth knowing
- Roughly 95% of the oil is limonene, yet the real 'orange' smell comes from trace aldehydes like decanal and sinensal.
- Rules
- Limited. Limonene-rich: peroxide (oxidation) specification applies
- Also called
- Citrus sinensis peel oil; orange oil Brazil / Florida
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