Bergamot mint essential oil — a bright, fresh opening that combines soft minty coolness with a distinctly citrus, bergamot-like sweetness. Lacks the sharp menthol bite of peppermint; instead it feels lavender-adjacent, slightly floral and clean, drying down to a gentle herbaceous green.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 262.
Mentha citrata oil is a pale yellow or pale olive colored to almost water-white liquid.
It has a sweet-herbaceous, somewhat fruity-fresh odor type; it resembles bergamot, but is distinctly more harsh in its terpenic topnotes, less rich in body, and without the oily-sweet, candy-like undertone of good bergamot oils.
The flavor of mentha citrata oil is sweet-fruity at low concentrations, but bitter-perfumey at higher levels.
It could find use as an adulterant of sage clary and bergamot oils, lavender oil, petitgrain bigarade oil, etc.
It is necessary to remove the monoterpenes from mentha citrata oil prior to its use in flavors.
The fully grown plant is steam distilled locally.