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How much Petitgrain oil can you put in a perfume?

0.2%

of the finished perfume, at most

By its typical composition, Petitgrain Mandarin Essential Oil can make up at most 0.2% of a finished perfume: its Dimethyl anthranilate content meets that IFRA limit first. At 18% that is at most 1.11% of your concentrate.

Grades differ, and the table below has each one.

One grade has no published breakdown, so nothing is known about what it carries: the calculator reports it as not fully checkable, never as fine.

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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
Petitgrain Bergamot Essential Oil	Bergamot oil 100%	0.4%	2.22%
Petitgrain Bigarade Essential Oil		no limit reached
Petitgrain Citronnier Essential Oil	Citral 25%	2.4%	13.3%
Petitgrain Essential Oil		no limit reached
Petitgrain Mandarin Essential Oil	Dimethyl anthranilate 50%	0.2%	1.11%
Petitgrain sur Fleurs de Bigaradier		no limit reached
Petitgrain Portugal	not fully checkable	not fully checkable

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
Petitgrain Mandarin Essential Oil	1.7 g
Ethylene Brassylate no IFRA limit	98.3 g

Petitgrain Mandarin Essential Oil brings 0.153% Dimethyl anthranilate to the finished perfume, against a limit of 0.1%: 1.53 times the limit. To bring it inside on its own, the calculator cuts Petitgrain Mandarin Essential Oil from 1.7 g to 1.104 g. Or keep the formula and bottle it weaker: the highest strength inside every limit is 11.76%.

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Or paste these lines into the calculator:

Petitgrain Mandarin Essential Oil  1.7 g
Ethylene Brassylate  98.3 g

Questions

Why is Petitgrain oil limited if it is natural?

Because IFRA limits molecules, and a natural is a mixture of them. Petitgrain Mandarin Essential Oil typically carries 50% Dimethyl anthranilate, which has its own Category 4 limit of 0.1%.

How much Petitgrain oil can I use in an eau de parfum?

At 18%, Petitgrain Mandarin Essential Oil may be at most 1.11% 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.