Ingredients · Citrus · top note
Tangerine oil
Bright, sweet orange-mandarin, sharper and less floral than mandarin.
- What it is
- Natural oil from cold-pressed tangerine peel.
- Where it comes from
- mainly USA and Brazil
- When you smell it
- Top notes: the first minutes.
- What perfumers do with it
- A cheaper, brighter alternative to mandarin in citrus tops and fruity accords.
- Worth knowing
- The name means 'from Tangier', the Moroccan port linked with the fruit in 19th-century Europe.
- Rules
- Limited. Limonene-rich: peroxide (oxidation) specification applies
- Also called
- Citrus reticulata (Dancy and other tangerines) peel oil
Named by the house, not on the label, in 4
