A bright, fresh citrus-woody top note with a distinctly green, slightly bitter character reminiscent of orange leaves and twigs. Opens sharp and leafy with hesperidic sparkle, drying down to a soft floral-woody nuance with a clean, almost soapy undertone.AI · claude-opus-4-7
Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 325.
Pale yellow or amber colored liquid.
Pleasant, fresh-floral, sweet odor, reminiscent of orange flowers with a slightly woody-herbaceous undertone and very faint, but sweet-floral dryout notes.
Slightly bitter flavor.
Used mainly for its refreshing, sweet-floral notes in citrus colognes, fougères, and often as a replacement for neroli oil.
Finds extensive use in low concentrations in fruit and honey flavors or aroma-concentrates where it gives naturalness, bouquet, and rounds off the sharpness of many synthetic components.
Distilled with steam from the leaves and twigs of the bitter orange tree.
Restricted IFRA-standard materials typically present in this NCS at the listed concentrations.
| Constituent | CAS | Typical % |
|---|---|---|
| Methyl N-methylanthranilate | 85-91-6 | 48.5% |
| Geraniol | 106-24-1 | 2.4% |
| Citral | 5392-40-5 | 0.65% |
| Citronellal | 106-23-0 | 0.05% |