Tangerine Leaves
Note Profile
About
Tangerine leaves smell of the stem, not the fruit. The opening is a sharp bitter green, the smell of snapping a twig off a citrus tree, with a metallic freshness the peel never has. A thin floral whisper sits underneath it. It dries to a dry, papery green, closer to pressed leaves than to fresh ones.
Scent Profile
Tangerine leaves smell of a sharp, bitter green snap, the smell of a broken citrus twig rather than the fruit itself. A citrus edge runs through it, more stem than peel, with a cool, slightly metallic freshness. A soft floral note, close to neroli, sits underneath, over a herbal backbone in the petitgrain family. It dries to a papery green.
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Materials That Can Make This Note
Perfumers can build Tangerine Leaves from materials such as:
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Methyl 2-(methylamino)benzoate musty · neroli · orange
Smell words come from published sources.
A given perfume with this note may use some of these, or something else.
Origin
The oil is steam-distilled from the leaves and twigs of Citrus reticulata. It belongs to the petitgrain family, the oils taken from citrus foliage rather than from the fruit or the flower. The trade uses tangerine leaf and mandarin leaf loosely for oils from the same species.
Usage in Perfumery
A heart note used for lift and for a bitter green edge. It goes into citrus and cologne structures that need foliage rather than more peel, and into green and fougère compositions. It can stand in for, or sit beside, bitter-orange petitgrain when a less bitter green is wanted.
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Perfumes featuring Tangerine Leaves
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