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orange-blossom perfume so fancy it forgot it started as common fruit flower
means An aromatic essential oil distilled from the fragrant white blossoms of the bitter orange tree, prized in perfumery for its sweet, honeyed floral scent.
from Named after Anne Marie Orsini, the late-17th-century Italian princess (or duchess) of Nerola, near Rome, who is said to have made the orange-blossom oil fashionable by scenting her gloves and bath with it. The word comes from her title — Nerola — and the trend spread through the perfumed courts of Europe.
- named after
- a 17th-century Italian princess of Nerola
- source
- flowers of the bitter orange tree
- yield
- a ton of blossoms makes scarce oil
- scent profile
- sweet, honeyed, faintly green and bitter
- in cologne
- core note of original eau de cologne
for instance
neroli essential oil — extracted from bitter orange blossoms, primary ingredient in eau de cologne since 1693