
Ingredients · Citrus · top note
Petitgrain mandarin
Say itpet-ee-GRAYN mandarin
Sweet, grape-like green-floral, with an orange-blossom, musky-mandarin depth.
- What it is
- Natural oil from steam-distilled mandarin leaves and twigs.
- Where it comes from
- mainly Italy
- When you smell it
- Top notes: when you spray it.
- What perfumers do with it
- Natural source of dimethyl anthranilate for mandarin, neroli and grape effects; rounds citrus accords.
- Worth knowing
- Its signature molecule, dimethyl anthranilate, fluoresces blue under ultraviolet light.
- Rules
- Limited. Rich in dimethyl anthranilate, which IFRA limits for phototoxicity
- Also called
- Mandarin leaf oil; Citrus reticulata leaf
Named by the house, not on the label, in 1
