Petitgrain Essential Oil
Petitgrain Essential Oil is a fresh, floral, and slightly woody aroma with citrusy undertones. Perfect for crafters, it’s ideal for adding a calming, balancing touch to candles, soaps, diffusers, and skincare products. Known for its stress-relieving and mood-enhancing properties, this oil is a versatile addition to any project. Blends beautifully with lavender, bergamot, and ylang-ylang for a soothing, floral-citrus scent that inspires relaxation.
Ambiance: Green / Fresh / Elegant / Balancing
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 Petitgrain 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 to middle note
- Scent family: Green / Citrus / Floral / Woody
Petitgrain Essential Oil has a fresh, green, citrus-floral profile with leafy, woody, slightly bitter, neroli-like, and softly soapy nuances. It feels greener and woodier than orange blossom, less sweet than neroli, and more refined than many sharp herbal oils. Its character is elegant, botanical, and naturally polished, making it especially useful in colognes, citrus florals, green accords, spa blends, fresh woods, and clean aromatic compositions.
The opening is bright, leafy, and citrus-green, while the drydown becomes softer, more floral, lightly woody, and gently soapy. Compared to citrus peel oils, petitgrain brings more structure and aromatic depth, making it valuable when a formula needs citrus freshness with a leafy floral heart and a more composed, perfumery-style character.
Technical Data & IFRA limits
- Product type: 100% pure essential oil
- Botanical name: Citrus Aurantium Amara
- CAS number: 72968-50-4
- EC number: 277-143-2
- Plant part: Leaves and twigs
- Extraction method: Steam Distillation
- Origin: Not specified in the provided documents
- Flashpoint: 66°C
- Density: 0.88–0.895 g/cm³ at 20°C
- Main natural constituents: Rich in linalool, with naturally occurring geraniol, limonene, citral, citronellol, benzyl benzoate, benzyl salicylate, and related citrus-green floral aromatic constituents. Exact composition may vary by batch.
IFRA Maximum Usage Levels
- Candles: 100%
- Diffusers: 10.00%
- Perfumes: 1.25%
- Soaps: 10.00%
For full category-specific limits, refer to the Petitgrain Essential Oil IFRA certificate available in the “Related Documents” tab.
Formulation & Creative Uses
Petitgrain Essential Oil works as a green citrus-floral top-to-middle note. It adds freshness, leafy texture, floral lift, and a clean woody-green structure to a formula, helping citrus, floral, herbal, woody, musky, and amber compositions feel more elegant and connected. It is especially useful when a blend needs citrus brightness without simple fruitiness, or floral freshness without becoming too sweet.
Common applications
- Diffusers: Excellent for fresh, green, elegant, spa-like, citrus-floral, balancing, and clean aromatic blends
- Candles & wax melts: Adds refined green citrus freshness, especially in spa, cologne, orange blossom, clean home, leafy floral, and fresh woody compositions.
- Soaps: Brings a crisp green-floral 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 colognes, neroli accords, orange blossom structures, green florals, fougere blends, clean musks, fresh woods, and elegant botanical compositions.
Creative directions
Use Petitgrain Essential Oil when a formula needs freshness, elegance, and a leafy citrus-floral bridge. It works especially well in blends that feel too fruity, sweet, flat, floral, heavy, or unfinished, helping the composition become more structured, refined, and naturally aromatic.
For citrus and cologne-style blends, combine petitgrain with bergamot, lemon, orange, mandarine, grapefruit, neroli, or lavender to create a bright and polished freshness. For green floral directions, use it with jasmine, rose, geranium, ylang ylang, orange blossom, or palmarosa to add leafy lift and reduce excessive sweetness. For spa and fresh woody compositions, pair it with cedarwood, amyris, frankincense, rosemary, clary sage, soft musks, or clean woody materials.
Petitgrain is also useful in clean home fragrance, elegant diffuser blends, herbal florals, modern fougere structures, soft citrus musks, and refined botanical accords. Because it has a leafy, slightly bitter green character, it can feel dry or austere if overdosed. It performs best when balanced with citrus oils, soft florals, woods, musks, or gentle balsamic materials that round out its fresh green structure.
Storage & Natural Variations
Petitgrain Essential Oil is classified as 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. Store in a cool, dry, well-ventilated place 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.
Product Suitability Guide
Comparison of typical formulation levels with the maximum permitted use for each application based on IFRA 51st amdt.
| Application | Typical Use | Suitability |
|---|---|---|
Candles & Wax Melts
|
7–12% | Suitable |
Electric Diffusers
|
Up to 100%* | Suitable* |
Pillow Mists
|
1–5% | Below Range |
Room Sprays
|
2–5% | Below Range |
Reed Diffusers
|
15–25% | Below Range |
Soaps & Rinse-off
|
1–3% | Suitable |
Hair Fragrance
|
1–3% | Limited |
Lotions & Body Oils
|
0.5–2% | Suitable |
Fine Fragrance
|
10–15% | Below Range |
Facial Makeup
|
0.1–1% | Suitable |
Body Mist & Deodorant
|
1–5% | Below Range |
How to Read the Suitability Statements
✓ Suitable: the permitted concentration reaches or exceeds the average typical-use range. △ Limited: the permitted concentration falls within the typical-use range but remains below its midpoint. × Below Range: the permitted concentration falls below the typical-use range. × Not Permitted: the applicable limit is 0%.
Please Note
Typical-use ranges are general formulation benchmarks, not product-specific recommendations. Suitability is determined by comparing the stated typical-use range with the maximum permitted concentration shown in the current supplier IFRA document.
This guide does not confirm scent performance, base compatibility, stability, device compatibility or complete finished-product compliance. Appropriate testing and all applicable safety, labelling and regulatory requirements remain the responsibility of the finished-product manufacturer.
*Electric diffusers: Up to 100% fragrance may be used only in equipment designed for undiluted fragrance oil. Dilution, carrier and compatibility requirements vary by device. Always follow the equipment manufacturer’s instructions.
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