AtlasFloral
Neroli
Citrus aurantium
Bitter-orange blossom. A honeyed, green modifier that lifts a heart without becoming the whole perfume.
- Place in the wear
- Heart
- The middle of the wear. Where most of the idea lives.
- Office
- Modifier
- A trace that turns the heart. Used sparingly.
- Family
- Floral
- Type
- Essential oil
- CAS
- 8016-38-4
- Origin
- Tunisia and other bitter-orange groves
- Span
- A few hours. Brighter than the wear that follows it, longer than the peel.
- Odor
- Orange blossom, honey, green stem, a clean bitterness
- Also called
- Orange blossom oil, Citrus aurantium amara flower oil
- Allergen
- CITRUS AURANTIUM FLOWER OIL
Neroli is distilled from the flowers of the bitter orange. The same tree gives petitgrain from the leaf and bitter-orange oil from the peel. The flower is the tender one: honey, white blossom, and a green bitterness that keeps it from turning soapy when it is fresh.
It is filed as a modifier. A trace turns orris and rose toward light. Too much and the bottle becomes a cologne whether you meant it or not. The span is a few hours; do not ask it to be the drydown.
The blossom of the bitter orange appears here by origin and by process: distilled neroli from Tunisia, Morocco and Egypt, the concrete, the absolute recovered after distillation, and petitgrain distilled over the flowers.
Sources
- Fairamour editorial (site entry)
- Fairamour editorial — citation pending
- Fairamour editorial
- PubChem substance records (13)
- EU Reg. 2023/1545 allergen list (via incilabel)
- Fairamour editorial