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Bergamot Essential Oil

CAS 8007-75-8  ·  Natural  ·  Top note  ·  Bright citrus

Impact

6 of 10

Substantivity

8.0 hours on a blotter

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Citrus 67%Floral 33%
bergamot 44%zesty 22%green 22%lavender 11%

What does Bergamot Essential Oil smell like?

Sparkling, sweet-tart citrus with a distinctive floral-lavender and slightly spicy tea-like nuance, more refined than other citrus oils. The backbone of colognes and fougeres; perfumers use it generously in top notes to lend elegance and lift.

citrusbergamotfloralfreshspicyzesty

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What is Bergamot Essential Oil made of?

An estimate, not a certificate of analysis. PerfuMate sums it when it checks a formula; paste your own supplier analysis and it takes over.

ConstituentCASShare
Limonene 138-86-3 38%
Linalool 78-70-6 11%
Geraniol 106-24-1 0.3%
Citral 5392-40-5 0.4%

What else is Bergamot Essential Oil called?

Bergamot Oil  ·  Citrus bergamia  ·  Bergamot Expressed  ·  Citrus bergamia oil  ·  Bergamot

Restricted under IFRA. This material carries a restriction. PerfuMate checks your formula against the 51st Amendment as you build, including the same molecule arriving from several naturals at once. What that covers, and what it does not.

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Which materials are closest to Bergamot Essential Oil?

Ranked by shared olfactive sub-categories, not alphabetically.

Published formulas using Bergamot Essential Oil

Published formulas: PerfuMate's house accords and formulas members chose to publish. The figure is its share of the concentrate.

What blends well with Bergamot Essential Oil?

Read from the published formulas: beside Bergamot Essential Oil in at least two of them.

What can replace Bergamot Essential Oil?

Computed, not collected from forums. A pair covers together what one cannot. The number is how much of this material's character a bottle carries, not a promise that it is the same thing.

  • Bergamot FCF Essential Oil
    carries Bergamot citrus, Zesty citrus, Green floral, Lavender floral. The same oil in another grade (same CAS); our catalog cannot tell these two apart by their notes, so smell them side by side
    95%
  • Bergamot Oil Terpeneless
    carries Bergamot citrus, Zesty citrus, Green floral, Lavender floral
    81%
  • Bergamot Oil Terpeneless 81% + Linalyl Propionate 20%
    carries Bergamot citrus, Zesty citrus, Green floral, Lavender floral. Bergamot Oil Terpeneless brings the Bergamot citrus side (80%); Linalyl Propionate brings the Bergamot citrus side (20%)
    83%
  • Linalyl Propionate 62% + Dihydromyrcenyl Acetate 38%
    carries Bergamot citrus, Green floral. Zesty citrus; Lavender floral; Linalyl Propionate brings the Bergamot citrus side (62%); Dihydromyrcenyl Acetate brings the Bergamot citrus side (38%); a molecule standing in for a natural: the rest of the oil does not come with it
    66%
  • Linalyl Propionate 65% + Petitgrain Bergamot Essential Oil 10% + Chrome Citrus (F-TEC) 25%
    carries Bergamot citrus, Zesty citrus, Green floral. Lavender floral; Linalyl Propionate brings the Bergamot citrus side (65%); Petitgrain Bergamot Essential Oil brings the Bergamot citrus side (10%); Chrome Citrus (F-TEC) brings the Zesty citrus side (25%)
    70%

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How much does PerfuMate know about one material?

Counted from the file the app ships, the moment this page was built.

Bergamot Essential Oil

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
2
Sub-categories under them
4
Impact, out of 10
6
Hours on a blotter
8.0 hours
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
5
Constituent breakdown
4 molecules

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Impact rating out of 10
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Classified into an olfactive family
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Carrying several families, in order
2,070
Sub-category assignments
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A top / heart / base band
2,157
Hours on a blotter
898
CAS number
1,642
Supplier synonyms
5,888 names
Constituent breakdowns
739

Every regulatory join - IFRA, GHS, allergens - is by CAS number, and a material can supply one through its constituents as well as its own row, so of the 569 materials carrying no CAS number the 244 without a constituent table are the ones that return "nothing known" rather than "nothing applies". The blotter hours are sourced rather than measured by us, and the app labels every one of them an estimate. There is no physical chemistry on a row: no molecular weight, no vapour pressure, no boiling point. The longer answer, or the whole catalog counted.