Orange Essential Oil
Orange Essential Oil is a bright, sweet, and juicy citrus aroma that’s a crafter’s dream for its versatility and mood-boosting properties. Perfect for candles, soaps, diffusers, and cleaning products, this oil adds a cheerful, energizing touch to any project. Known for its stress-relieving and uplifting effects, it’s a must-have for creating vibrant, inviting creations. Blends beautifully with cinnamon, clove, and vanilla for a warm, festive scent that sparks joy.
Ambiance: Sweet / Bright / Juicy / Cheerful
Please note
This is a pure, undiluted essential oil designed for crafting end products such as candles, diffusers, soaps, bath products, and other personal care items. Essential oils are highly concentrated and should not be applied directly to the skin without proper dilution in a carrier oil. All our essential oils are measured in grams, not milliliters. Bottle fill levels may vary due to differences in oil density, which affects volume.
For specific usage limits, please refer to the Orange Essential Oil IFRA guidelines or consult the Safety Data Sheet (SDS) included in the “Related Documents” tab. Compliance of the final product remains the responsibility of the manufacturer.
Packaging note: 10g testers are supplied in PET bottles for affordable evaluation and are not intended for long-term archival storage. Production sizes from 50g upwards are supplied in premium aluminium bottles for improved long-term protection. Read more
Olfactive Profile
- Note classification: Top note
- Scent family: Citrus / Fruity / Sweet / Fresh
Orange Essential Oil has a sweet, juicy, and cheerful citrus profile with fresh peel, soft fruity, and lightly zesty nuances. It feels sweeter and rounder than lemon, less sharp than mandarine, and warmer than grapefruit. Its character is bright, sunny, and highly familiar, making it especially useful in citrus, fruity, festive, gourmand, floral, clean home, and uplifting compositions.
The opening is fresh, juicy, and immediately sparkling, while the drydown becomes softer, sweeter, and gently peel-like. Compared to sharper citrus oils, orange brings a more rounded and comforting freshness, making it valuable when a formula needs brightness, warmth, and an approachable citrus signature without excessive acidity or bitterness.
Technical Data & IFRA limits
- Product type: 100% pure essential oil
- Botanical name: Citrus Aurantium
- CAS number: 8028-48-6
- EC number: 232-433-8
- Plant part: Fruit peel
- Extraction method: Cold Pressed
- Origin: Spain
- Flashpoint: 53.4°C
- Density: 0.823–0.863 g/cm³ at 20°C
- Main natural constituents: Rich in limonene, with naturally occurring linalool, citral, geraniol, and related citrus peel terpenes. Exact composition may vary by batch.
IFRA Maximum Usage Levels
- Candles: 100%
- Diffusers: 100%
- Perfumes: 100%
- Soaps: 100%
For full category-specific limits, refer to the Orange Essential Oil IFRA certificate available in the “Related Documents” tab.
Formulation & Creative Uses
Orange Essential Oil works as a sweet citrus top note. It adds brightness, warmth, juiciness, and a cheerful fruity lift to a formula, helping heavier, spicy, woody, gourmand, resinous, floral, or musky compositions feel more open and inviting. It is especially useful when a blend needs a soft citrus opening that feels friendly, sunny, and naturally sweet.
Common applications
- Diffusers: Excellent for cheerful, uplifting, fruity, cozy, citrus, festive, and family-friendly blends.
- Candles & wax melts: Adds sweet citrus warmth, especially in orange-spice, Christmas, bakery, vanilla citrus, fruity, clean home, and sunny kitchen-inspired compositions.
- Soaps: Brings a fresh sweet-orange character, with testing required for scent retention and process stability.
- Bath & body products: Suitable when used within IFRA limits and proper dilution guidelines.
- Perfumery: Useful in citrus accords, fruity florals, orange blossom structures, soft colognes, gourmand citrus blends, clean musks, and warm aromatic compositions.
Creative directions
Use Orange Essential Oil when a formula needs sweetness, brightness, and a warm citrus opening. It works especially well in blends that feel too dark, spicy, resinous, woody, dry, or serious, helping the composition become more cheerful, rounded, and immediately inviting.
For festive and cozy blends, combine orange with cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, vanilla-like materials, benzoin, or tonka-style notes to create a warm seasonal citrus effect. For fresh diffuser and home fragrance directions, use it with lemon, bergamot, lavender, eucalyptus, rosemary, or spearmint to create a clean and uplifting atmosphere. For softer floral or body care compositions, pair it with neroli, geranium, ylang ylang, lavender, amyris, cedarwood, or soft musks.
Orange is also useful in fruity florals, bright gourmand accords, citrus-vanilla blends, warm woods, clean home fragrance, and cheerful spa compositions. Because it is a volatile citrus top note, it gives a beautiful opening but may soften in heat or high-pH systems. It performs best when supported by longer-lasting woods, spices, resins, musks, or soft floral materials that help extend its sweet citrus impression.
Storage & Natural Variations
Orange Essential Oil is classified as flammable, irritating to the skin, irritating to the eyes, sensitising, hazardous if swallowed and enters the airways, and toxic to aquatic life with long lasting effects. Always follow the IFRA guidance and SDS for the intended product category. The final safety assessment, dilution level, labeling, and regulatory compliance remain the responsibility of the manufacturer.
Essential oils are natural aromatic materials, and slight variations in scent, colour, density, and appearance may occur from batch to batch. These differences are normal and can be influenced by harvest conditions, climate, origin, plant material, and natural compositional variation.
Scent perception may also vary depending on individual sensitivity, dilution level, formulation base, and application method. Essential oils may not smell exactly the same in the bottle as they do in a finished product. We strongly recommend testing a 10g bottle before committing to larger quantities, especially for commercial production.
To preserve quality, store tightly sealed in the original container, away from heat, light, air, and moisture. Citrus essential oils are oxidation-sensitive, and prolonged exposure to air or improper storage may affect aroma, performance, and skin-sensitization potential over time. Store in a cool, dry, well-ventilated place, keep away from ignition sources, and avoid release into drains, surface water, or the environment.
Order processing times
Standard lead time is 1-2 business days. Processing times may be longer during peak holiday seasons—please plan accordingly.
Bulk Orders
For larger quantities, we offer bulk production starting from 5kg per fragrance code, with a 10% discount per kilogram. Customers who need more than 5kgs per scent, can contact us to arrange a proforma invoice. Bulk orders are produced in multipliers of 5 (5kg, 10kg, 15kg, etc.) and lead times vary depending on fragrance and time of the year, usually within the range of 3 to 8 weeks.
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Our fragrance oils are sourced from established European manufacturers and designed for professional use, offering consistency and performance in every batch.
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