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How much Neroli and orange blossom can you put in a perfume?

3.33%

of the finished perfume, at most

By its typical composition, Orange Blossom Absolute can make up at most 3.33% of a finished perfume: its Dimethyl anthranilate content meets that IFRA limit first. At 18% that is at most 18.5% of your concentrate.

Grades differ, and the table below has each one.

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Grade by grade

Each grade in PerfuMate's catalog, read through its typical composition by the calculator's engine:

Material	Held by	At most, of the perfume	At 18%, of the concentrate
Neroli Essential Oil	Dimethyl anthranilate 0.5%	20%	no limit at this strength
Neroli Oil Egypt	Dimethyl anthranilate 0.5%	20%	no limit at this strength
Orange Blossom Absolute	Dimethyl anthranilate 3%	3.33%	18.5%
Orange Flower Concrete	Dimethyl anthranilate 1.5%	6.66%	37%
Orange Flower Water Absolute	Dimethyl anthranilate 1%	10%	55.5%
Orange Flower Tunisia CO2 Extract™ (Robertet)	Farnesol 1.65%	72.9%	no limit at this strength

Shares are the catalog's typical values. A real batch varies with origin and season, and your supplier's analysis (GC-MS or certificate of analysis) is the real figure.

A worked example

A 100 g concentrate, bottled as an eau de parfum at 18%:

Material	Weighed
Orange Blossom Absolute	28 g
Ethylene Brassylate no IFRA limit	72 g

Orange Blossom Absolute brings 0.151% Dimethyl anthranilate to the finished perfume, against a limit of 0.1%: 1.51 times the limit. To bring it inside on its own, the calculator cuts Orange Blossom Absolute from 28 g to 16.364 g. Or keep the formula and bottle it weaker: the highest strength inside every limit is 11.9%.

Open this example in the IFRA calculator

Or paste these lines into the calculator:

Orange Blossom Absolute  28 g
Ethylene Brassylate  72 g

Questions

Why is Neroli and orange blossom limited if it is natural?

Because IFRA limits molecules, and a natural is a mixture of them. Orange Blossom Absolute typically carries 3% Dimethyl anthranilate, which has its own Category 4 limit of 0.1%.

How much Neroli and orange blossom can I use in an eau de parfum?

At 18%, Orange Blossom Absolute may be at most 18.5% of the concentrate, if nothing else in the formula carries Dimethyl anthranilate. Every other source of Dimethyl anthranilate counts toward the same total.

Does this limit apply to candles or soap?

No. This is Category 4, fine fragrance on skin. Other products sit in other IFRA categories with other limits, which these pages and the calculator do not cover.