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Bitter Orange Essential Oil

CAS 68916-04-1  ·  Natural  ·  Top note  ·  Bitter citrus

Impact

5 of 10

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Citrus 67%Woody 33%
bitter-orange 44%dry 33%peel 22%

What does Bitter Orange Essential Oil smell like?

Drier, more sophisticated orange than the sweet oil, with bitter-peel, slightly woody and fresh-marmalade facets. Prized in colognes and amber compositions for a grown-up citrus opening; phototoxic in leave-on use.

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What is Bitter Orange 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 92%
Linalool 78-70-6 0.5%
Citral 5392-40-5 0.3%
Geraniol 106-24-1 0.1%

What else is Bitter Orange Essential Oil called?

Bitter Orange Oil  ·  Orange Bigarade Oil  ·  Citrus aurantium amara  ·  Bigarade  ·  Seville Orange Oil  ·  Bitter Orange

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 Bitter Orange Essential Oil?

Ranked by shared olfactive sub-categories, not alphabetically.

What can replace Bitter Orange 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.

  • Bitter Orange FCF Essential Oil
    carries Bitter orange citrus, Dry woody, Peel citrus. 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%
  • Chinotto Essential Oil 68% + Bigarane 32%
    carries Bitter orange citrus. Dry woody; Peel citrus; Chinotto Essential Oil brings the Bitter orange citrus side (68%); Bigarane brings the green side (32%)
    62%
  • Chinotto Essential Oil 78% + Menthone 22%
    carries Bitter orange citrus, Peel citrus. Dry woody; Chinotto Essential Oil brings the Bitter orange citrus side (78%); Menthone brings the Minty herbal side (22%)
    60%

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Bitter Orange Essential Oil

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
2
Sub-categories under them
3
Impact, out of 10
5
Hours on a blotter
estimated from family and band
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
6
Constituent breakdown
4 molecules

All 2,211 materials

Described in words
every one
Impact rating out of 10
2125
Classified into an olfactive family
2,172
Carrying several families, in order
2,070
Sub-category assignments
9,899 across 229 pairs
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.