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Ingredients · Citrus · top note
Yuzu oil
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Tart mandarin-grapefruit-lime blend; floral, piney, faintly smoky-spicy.
- What it is
- Natural oil from cold-pressed or distilled peel.
- Where it comes from
- Japan (Kōchi), Korea, China
- When you smell it
- Top notes: the first minutes.
- What perfumers do with it
- A signature of Japanese-inspired citrus; adds sparkling, unusual freshness to colognes and tea accords.
- Worth knowing
- In Japan, whole yuzu fruits are floated in hot baths on the winter solstice.
- Rules
- Limited. Limonene-rich: peroxide (oxidation) specification applies
- Also called
- Citrus junos peel oil
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