Neroli Essential Oil - Organic (Citrus Aurantium Amara)
- Bitter orange blossom oil from Morocco. Distilled from the flowers of Citrus aurantium, the bitter orange, and organic.
- Linalool, 20 to 50% of the oil. The published lead constituent, with delta-Limonene, Beta-Pinene and Linalyl Acetate each at 10 to 20%.
- Bright citrus first, then white flower for hours. The citrus is gone in minutes, and what's left is the blossom, close to the skin.
- Sold pure and as a ready-to-wear dilute. The pure oil for blending and the diffuser, the dilute for wrists and neck straight from the bottle. See how to use it.
- Third-party tested, like all of our oils. Checked by an outside lab, and bought from distillers who harvest at the right time.
- An oil we use at home. Like everything we sell. Pick the strength and size that suits you on the Compare tab. Compare sizes.
Product specification
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Neroli, the blossom oil of the bitter orange tree
6 benefits of Neroli Essential Oil
A perfume worn on its own
A single drop of neroli, stirred into a carrier and worn on the wrists, is a perfume by itself, because the blossom scent is complete without anything added to it. It reads as clean flower, not as a bottle of perfume, and it sits close to the body. A little goes a long way, so one drop is where we'd begin.
Orange blossom in the diffuser
Our neroli fills a room with orange blossom on a few drops in a diffuser, fewer than most oils need. The scent is bright when the mist starts and softens as the room warms. It suits a morning with the windows open, and an evening with nothing else running.
A scent that moves as it dries
On a blotter, neroli changes over the first hour, opening as bright citrus, turning honeyed and floral within minutes, and settling into a soft green sweetness that lasts. The citrus goes first. What stays is the flower, and it's the part people notice on you hours later.
The perfumer's bridge between citrus and flowers
This blossom oil is the classic link between a citrus opening and the florals that follow it, which is why cologne makers have leaned on neroli for three centuries. It shares linalool and linalyl acetate with bergamot, lavender and clary sage, so those three sit easily beside it. In a blend it lifts the flowers toward the citrus and keeps the citrus from turning thin.
A rare blossom oil
Moroccan neroli is one of the hard-to-find oils we stock, because every flower is hand-picked and the whole crop passes through the still before it fades. The bottle is small for that reason. Anyone who has smelled a thin or synthetic neroli knows the difference the first time they open this one.
A floral scent to wear on skin
Neroli in a carrier gives a light floral scent on skin, closer to fresh flower than to perfume. It suits a body oil after a shower, where the blossom lifts off warm skin for an hour or two, and it never turns heavy.
How to use
Diffuser
In the air3 to 5 drops of neroli in a water diffuser is enough for a medium room, so begin there and add one drop at a time if you want more. Neroli is strong for a flower oil and needs fewer drops than most. Run it for 30 to 60 minutes, then switch it off for as long and open a window.
On the skin
TopicalDilute neroli essential oil to 1 to 2 percent before it goes on the body, which is 6 to 12 drops in 30 ml of a carrier oil like argan or meadowfoam. For the face keep it to 3 to 6 drops per 30 ml. Patch test the blend on the inner elbow before you use it anywhere else. Neroli doesn't go on neat, and the bottle lives out of a child's reach. Because it's a distilled blossom oil, it carries none of the sun caution that some expressed citrus peel oils carry, bergamot above all.
The 10 percent dilute
Ready to wearThe neroli 10 percent dilute is one part neroli in nine parts meadowfoam seed oil, and it goes on the wrists and at the neck as a perfume without any further mixing. Meadowfoam has almost no scent of its own, so what you smell is the blossom. For the face, or for a full body oil, stir the dilute into more carrier first, because it's blended for small areas.
Bath
In the waterBlend 4 to 6 drops of neroli into a tablespoon of carrier or unscented bath oil before it goes anywhere near the water, then add it once the tub is full and swirl. Oil floats, so the carrier is what gets the drops to your skin diluted instead of neat.
3 recipes using this oil
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Method. Drop all three into a water diffuser and let it run for half an hour. The bergamot sharpens the opening and the lavender rounds it off, with the neroli sitting between them as the flower.
Method. Stir the drops into the meadowfoam in a small roller or dropper bottle and cap it. The blend is one from our own blog, and at this strength it belongs on the wrists or behind the ears, not over the whole body. Leave it a day in the bottle before you judge it, since the rose takes that long to settle in.
Method. Add the drops to the argan in a dropper bottle and shake. Three drops in 15 ml is a face strength, so press a few drops over damp skin at night and let it sink in.
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