Petitgrain Essential Oil

Product Details Petitgrain Essential Oil: Uses, Benefits, and Blends Scientific Name: Citrus Aurantium L Var. Paraguay Origin: Paraguay Plant Part: Twigs Scent: Floral, orangey, fresh, and light Color: Clear Consistency: Thin Perfumery Note: Middle Initial Aroma Strength: Moderate Extraction Method: Steam distillation Suitable Blending Oils: Citruses like orange, lemon, mandarin, and tangerine, flowers like geranium, rose, or ylang-ylang, herbs like lavender and chamomile, woods, spices, and resins. Breaking Down the Petitgrain Essential Oil’s Chemical Components Linalyl acetate: 47.4–58.0% Linalool: 20.8–25.2% α-Terpineol: 4.4–6.8% Geranyl acetate: 2.9–4.5% Geraniol: 2.1–3.0% Neryl acetate: 2.1–3.0% Tisserand, Robert; Young, Rodney. Essential Oil Safety: A Guide for Health Care Professionals (p. 1509). Elsevier Health Sciences. Kindle Edition. Petitgrain Essential Oil Uses and Benefits Beautiful for skin care, especially for greasy and inflamed skin Rosacea What is Petitgrain Essential Oil? Actually, there are several different types of petitgrain. Petitgrain is an essential oil that has been distilled from the buds, twigs, and leaves of a citrus tree. The name comes from the French description of the small buds and unripe fruits used to make the oil, which look like little seeds. To get the very best from a citrus harvest, only the best fruits are chosen. To optimize their nutrition, smaller unripe fruits are discarded. Distilling these offshoots means that Petitgrain essential oil allows sacrificing these early fruits without too much of a dent in revenue. Essentially, it is making money from something that might otherwise be thrown away. Ordinarily, when we say petitgrain, we mean the essential oil distilled from the twigs of the bitter orange , and indeed this is the one we have here. However, you can get mandarin, grapefruit, bergamot, and lime petitgrain essential oils, amongst others. To reiterate, our petitgrain essential oil is a bitter orange petitgrain essential oil. You may also see petitgrain essential oil labeled as Bigarade . Bigarade delineates that it comes from the bitter orange plant; however, this is a French term to describe petitgrain (and neroli oils) that come from France. Our Petitgrain essential oil comes from Paraguay. Petitgrain essential oil is primarily a perfumery ingredient, although it does have important therapeutic traits. Petitgrain Essential Oil Uses It’s difficult to talk about petitgrain essential oil without saying it is like another essential oil. It smells like oranges, but softer. It acts like Neroli but perhaps a little stronger. Oddly, it is extremely similar, chemically, to lavender, high in linalool and linalyl acetate, but does not smell like lavender. To make things harder still, there is very little scientific investigation into petitgrain. There are, however, huge numbers of studies into the main constituents, linalyl acetate and linalool. What does Petitgrain Essential Oil Smell Like Almost lik