Orange Tree Wood

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Orange tree wood is the timber of the bitter or sweet orange tree read as a fragrance note. It sits between a dry pale wood and the citrus the tree is grown for. No supplier sells it as a distilled raw material, so in practice it is a composed accord: orange peel or petitgrain over a woody anchor.

Scent Profile

Orange Tree Wood smells of a pale, fine-grained wood, closer to a fruit-tree offcut than to cedar, with no pencil-shaving sharpness and no resin. Bitter orange zest runs close behind the wood, tart rather than sweet. A green, leafy freshness threads through both, the bitter, sappy register of cut twig. A faint herbal warmth and a soft creamy edge round out the wood underneath.

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EnvelopeBase · ~16h lasting

Family Woody & Earthy

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Origin

Citrus sinensis and Citrus aurantium wood. The tree is grown for fruit, and the wood is a pruning and grubbing-up residue. Published work on orange wood covers bioenergy and antioxidant extraction, not distillation for scent. No fragrance house datasheet for an 'Orange Tree Wood' or 'Bois d'Oranger' material was found. Brands that list it build it as an accord. Angel Schlesser's Profound Orange Wood (Nathalie Lorson, 2020) sets it beside petitgrain, over orange and patchouli.

Usage in Perfumery

Used as a woody note under a citrus or orange-blossom accord. It reads as the orchard rather than the fruit bowl. Parfumo listed it in 27 perfumes from 24 brands on 2026-10-10. Of the 20 with a pyramid, 12 place it in the base, 7 in the heart and 1 in the top. 11 of the 27 also list neroli, orange blossom, petitgrain or orange leaf.