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the citrus too sour to eat that perfumed an empire and named your morning tea
means A fragrant, sour citrus fruit, grown mainly in southern Italy, whose aromatic rind oil flavors Earl Grey tea and scents countless perfumes.
from The name traveled west through Italian bergamotta, which most likely came from the Turkish bey armudu — 'the prince's pear' — a nod to the fruit's pear-like shape. The city of Bergamo in Lombardy is often credited too, but that link is probably a later folk association rather than the true root; the Ottoman pear most likely came first.
- earl grey
- Its oil is what makes that tea taste fancy
- barely edible
- Too bitter and sour to eat raw
- hometown
- Almost all of it grows in Calabria, Italy
- perfume staple
- A core ingredient in countless luxury fragrances
- genetic mystery
- Likely a lemon and bitter orange hybrid
earl grey tea — british tea blend flavored with bergamot orange oil, created in the 1800s
calabria bergamot — italy's calabria region produces 90% of the world's bergamot oranges for perfume and food
cologne eau de cologne — classic fragrance from cologne, germany that uses bergamot as a primary note since 1709