Citrus

Understanding the family

The family takes its name from the Garden of the Hesperides, where the golden apples grew in Greek mythology. It gathers fragrances built around citrus: bergamot, lemon, mandarin, grapefruit and the products of the orange tree.

Eau de Cologne, born in the early eighteenth century, is its ancestor. These fragrances are luminous and bracing but fleeting; perfumers extend them with musks, light woods or aromatic notes.