Rangpur

Note Profile

Botanical

About

Rangpur is the fruit of Citrus limonia Osbeck, a mandarin-lime hybrid grown in India and known in Japan as hime. It is not a true lime. The peel oil opens as a sharp, juicy citrus with a strong sour edge, and carries a floral and warm-spice lift over it that neither lime nor mandarin has on its own.

Scent Profile

Citrus leads and is the only thing every source agrees on: a heady citrus spark, mandarin-like, intensely aromatic. Sour is the second pillar, because the fruit is named for its acidity and Specialty Produce describes it as sweet then strongly acidic. Fruity carries the mandarin half of the hybrid, the soft round juiciness that separates it from a green lime. Floral is claimed independently by two trade sources, EssentialCitrus as 'warm floral ginger spice' and Specialty Produce as 'floral, honeyed', and the peel oil's linalool and a-terpineol support it. Honeyed is the second half of that Specialty Produce phrase. Below the naming line, fresh_spice holds the ginger that EssentialCitrus names, green the lime side and its pinene and terpinen-4-ol, aldehydic the citral pair, aromatic_herbal the terpinolene and p-cymene edge, and warm_spice the b-bisabolene. Smoky and clean_musk sit and because one trade source reports smoky and musky nuances in the ripe fruit, not in the oil.

ScentWheel

Breadthmedium

EnvelopeTop · ~2h lasting

Family Fresh & Citrus, Fruity

Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.

Origin

Citrus limonia Osbeck, a natural hybrid of mandarin and citron, widely grown in India and used across the world as rootstock for other citrus. The fruit is small and deep orange. Perfumery uses cold-pressed peel oil. Perfumer & Flavorist lists the peel-oil volatiles as a-pinene, b-pinene, myrcene, limonene, g-terpinene, p-cymene, terpinolene, linalool, trans-a-bergamotene, terpinen-4-ol, a-terpineol, neral, geranial, neryl acetate, geranyl acetate and b-bisabolene. Neral and geranial are the citral pair, which is where the lemon-lime sharpness comes from; linalool and a-terpineol carry the floral side.

Usage in Perfumery

A top note in citrus openings where a plain lime or mandarin would read flat. It brings sourness and a floral-spicy warmth at the same time, so it bridges into ginger, cardamom and small florals rather than only into other citrus. Two Fragrantica perfumes and two Parfumo placements across one brand carry it, so use is thin.