What’s hot or not this summer? What will be the main theme of your fragrance in the next months?
Want to make your sillage captivating, trendy and refreshing? How about discreetly sexy but also uplifting and buzzy at the same time?
Influencers and Nose discerning Noses. Orange Blossom The summer scent for this year is the newest and most popular. Patchouli’s time in the spotlight is over. Gastronomy is in. Zesty has arrived. When was it out? Houbigant Paris Orangers in Fleurs must be the top orangey summer scent.
Orange trees are symbols of fertility, abundance and eternal love. The orange tree is forever associated with weddings. One of the House of Houbigant’s historic clients, Queen Victoria, wore a silk headdress wreathed in orange blossoms and ornamented her white, silk-satin gown bodice with petal sprays at her 1840 marriage to Prince Albert. Since then, Victorian brides have worn pastoral coronets made of orange blossoms. Orange Blossoms are featured as the top notes, followed by Egyptian Jasmine Absolute, Tuberose Eau de Brouts Ylang Comores and Nutmeg, with base notes of Cedar Wood, Musk and Musk.
There are other:
Netherlands-based Hiram Green’s new Tryst which uses 550 blossoms to make one 59ml bottle. Green, a self-trained Canadian living in the Netherlands, is a perfumer. He says: “A perfumer never chooses favorites, but I cannot lie – orange blossom is a special material to me. There is a ton of it in the TRYST formula!”
Jo Malone London Orange Blossom Cologne
24, Faubourg from Hermès
Serge Lutens Fleurs d’Oranger
Parfum d’Empire Azemour les Orangers by perfumer Marc-Antoine Corticchiato,
L’Artisan Parfumeur
Parfums De Marly Valaya Eau de Parfum
Diptyque‘s Eau Des Sens Eau de Toilette
Le Labo Fleur D’Oranger 27
Orange blossom can be used in a variety of fragrances. It is also used as a natural “fixative” to extend the shelf life of other components in a perfume.
According to the Experimental Perfumes Club: “Orange blossom is a complex ingredient, almost a fragrance in itself. It can be interpreted with a variety of different notes. It can sometimes build on its floral-animalic scent while also having a fresh, clean, baby-like scent.
“Because orange blossom natural extracts are extremely expensive, perfumers often reproduce the smell of the flower from a blend of natural and synthetic perfumery raw materials. Synthetic components like Aurantiol, Anthranilate de Methyl, and Nerolidol can be used to reconstitute the smell of orange blossom, as part of an accord.”
It is believed that the evergreen Bitter Orange Tree of the Rutaceae family is a hybrid, created from Pomelo and Mandarin Oranges. Around 100lbs produces approximately 1 lb of oil
Citrus aurantium produces both Orange Blossom Oil and Neroli. Petitgrain comes from the leaves. Steam distillation is used when the oil is extracted from the flowers. The oil is called Neroli. When’s when solvent extraction is used, the by-product oil is called Orange Blossom. Neroli has a green and spicy tone, whereas Orange Blossom tends to be sweeter and floral.
Anne Marie Orsini in Italy, Princess of Nerola introduced the essence the Bitter Orange Tree to fashionable circles among the Italian aristocracy of the 17th century. To perfume their gloves.
The best high-end Neroli eau de toilettes and eau du parfums include Czech & Speake Neroli, Eauso, Acqua di Parma Colonia, Prada’s Infusion de Fleur D’Oranger and Tom Ford Neroli Portofino Acqua, which was launched in 2019 and the Edward Bodenham followed in the footsteps of Robert Floris, and embarked on an expedition. Inspire by a voyage on the sea, Neroli, lemon, and oceanic notes combine to create a fresh, energizing scent. The dominant Neroli accord continues into the heart and is wrapped in aromatic fennel, jasmine, ginger and ginger. Oakwood (originally from Corsica), amber, musks create an aromatic, warm base.
Orange blossom is highly prized in North African countries like Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt. Californian orange blossom is becoming more popular.
Indoles are found in orange blossom, which is why it’s also an indolic. Indoles are made up of proteins that contain tryptophan. It’s the same chemical as in Thanksgiving turkey that makes you feel replete.