Mandarin Orange Zest

Note Profile

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About

Mandarin orange zest is the cold-pressed oil of mandarin peel. It is softer and sweeter than orange, less acidic than lemon and less bitter than grapefruit, and it carries a honeyed, faintly floral warmth. The faint grape-candy note comes from one minor constituent, methyl N-methylanthranilate.

Scent Profile

Soft, rounded, sweet citrus with no bitter edge. Fruity juiciness and a honeyed warmth sit under it, and the honey reads as almost floral, with a faint grape-candy note from methyl N-methylanthranilate. A waxy peel richness fills the heart. A light sweetness and a small tart-aldehyde lift finish the top. Faint green and sour edges only, and a warm citrus-honey trace that lasts longer than lemon or lime.

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Breadthfocused

EnvelopeTop · ~2h lasting

Family Fresh & Citrus, Fruity

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Materials That Can Make This Note

Perfumers can build Mandarin Orange Zest from materials such as:

Natural extract Mandarin oil tart · ripe · sweet
Limonene citrus · orange · resinous
Gamma-terpinene citrus · lime · herbal

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Allergens perfumes with this note can list: Limonene

A given perfume with this note may use some of these, or something else, and may or may not contain the allergens above.

Origin

Citrus reticulata, the peel of the fruit, cold pressed. The oil is limonene-dominant at 65 to 75 per cent, with gamma-terpinene at 15 to 20 per cent that sweet orange peel does not have, about a dozen tart citrus aldehydes at low level, and a small percentage of methyl N-methylanthranilate. Three harvest grades are sold: green, yellow and red.

Usage in Perfumery

A top note with better hang than lemon or lime, used as a modifier rather than a volume material. Arctander records it in colognes to soften other citrus oils, in neroli bases and in fantasy moss accords.