Note · White flowers
Orange blossom
Citrus aurantium
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Bitter orange blossoms give two materials: neroli by distillation, fresh and green, and orange blossom absolute by solvent extraction, rounder, honeyed and faintly animalic.
What it brings
A sunny, enveloping floral note, at once clean and sensual.
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Material profile
- Family
- White flowers
- Nature
- Natural material
- Botanical name
- Citrus aurantium
- Origin
- Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt.
- How it is obtained
- Volatile solvent extractionSteam distillation
- On Volute
- 63 fragrances