Product Description

Rejuvenating, relaxing and restoring. Distilled from the freshly picked blossoms of the Bitter Orange tree, Neroli essential oil is an excellent skincare oil which encourages new cell growth and is valuable for use on mature skin.

When used as part of a regular skin care routine, neroli improves elasticity, stimulates skin cell renewal, reduces thread veins, softens wrinkles and scars, and smells absolutely divine. What more could you ask from an essential oil! More Information

Along with rose and frankincense, neroli essential oil is one of the most useful oils to nourish, protect and care for your skin, whatever your age.

The beautiful fragrance is deeply relaxing to the mind, helping to dispel anger, irritability and despondency. Also available in a 5% and *0% dilution from Quinessence.

In common with rose and jasmine, neroli oil is a complete fragrance in itself and forms the heart of one of the worlds most enduring perfumes, 'Eau de Cologne'.

Legend has it that during the *7th century in Italy, Anne Marie de la Trmoille (Orsini), who was duchess of Bracciano and princess of Nerola, first introduced Neroli essential oil as a fashionable fragrance to high society. She used it whilst bathing and also to perfume her stationary, scarves and most famously, her gloves. It is believed this precious essential oil was later named after the princess Nerola.

Throughout April and May in Tunisia, prolific clusters of attractive, highly scented blossoms consisting of 5 petals and *4 yellow stamens begin to appear on the tree. Further to the beautiful oil within, these flowers also produce tasty nectar which proves irresistible to honey bees. The oil content of the flowers increases as they develop and bloom.

The flowering buds are usually harvested by hand early in the morning just as they begin to open - but only on warm, sunny days, because damp or overcast weather can have an adverse effect on the fragrance of the oil. It is absolutely critical that the buds are collected at the correct stage of maturity, because if they are plucked too soon the yield of oil will be lower and the resulting oil will have an unwanted 'green' note in the fragrance.

Rest assured that the Neroli Essential Oil supplied by Quinessence has been stringently checked to ensure that both the odour profile and the purity meets our rigorous quality control standards.

• Country of Origin: Tunisia
   
• Botanical Name: Citrus aurantium v. amara
   
• Extracted From: Flowers
   
• Extraction Method: Cool steam distillation
   
• Principal Constituents: Linalool, Limonene, b-Pinene