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Blood Orange Oil

Essential oil · Citrus / Fruity

orange, tart, sweet, juicy, fresh — top note.

Aroma illustration for Blood Orange Oil: a halved orange, for its orange note. It illustrates smell associations, not the material or its source.Illustration of a halved blood orange with deep red flesh and a whole orange with leaves. The oil is pressed from the peel.
Aroma View: an illustration of what Blood Orange Oil smells like (orange), drawn by RUŌOD Lab — not its appearance or its source.An original illustration of the botanical source by RUŌOD Lab — not a photograph of the material.
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By the RUŌOD Lab TeamRevision 1Updated

In short

Blood orange oil is cold-pressed from the peel of blood orange, a red-fleshed sweet orange. It is like sweet orange oil but sharper and more tart.

What Blood Orange Oil smells like

AromaWeb describes blood orange oil as close to sweet orange oil but sharper, with a tarter, more complex aroma, mostly limonene since blood oranges are a variety of sweet orange. Suppliers describe it as warm, fresh, fruity and tangy, and as sweeter and juicier than sweet orange; Buckley & Phillips cold-press it from Citrus sinensis var. moro peel.

Leading note
Orange
Clear facets
Tart
Supporting facets
Juicy, sweet
Character
Fresh, bright
  • orange
  • tart
  • sweet
  • juicy
  • fresh

What makes Blood Orange Oil distinctive

Sweet orange with a sharper, tarter and more complex edge.

Where the descriptions disagree: Some describe it as sharper and tarter than sweet orange, others as sweeter and juicier.

How Blood Orange Oil is used

Used for a brighter, tarter orange top note in citrus, fruity and gourmand accords.

Typical role: lift (adds diffusion and radiance, especially at the top).

How Blood Orange Oil differs from similar materials

Mandarin Oil
Mandarin oil is softer and sweeter, with a delicate floral note; blood orange is the sharper, tarter orange.
Lemon Verbena Oil
Lemon verbena oil is a leafy, herbaceous lemon from citral; blood orange is sweet, tart orange, with no herb in it.

Each difference compares the published descriptions of the two materials. Smell varies with grade, supplier and dilution; compare them side by side on blotters before substituting one for another.

Formulation considerations

Shares its CAS number with sweet orange oil, so none is given here. Mostly limonene, like sweet orange oil.

Identity and classification

Type
Essential oil
Origin
Natural
Odour family
Citrus / Fruity
Note position
Top note
Physical form at room temperature
Liquid
Also known as
Blood orange essential oil
Botanical source
Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck (blood orange cultivars)

No CAS number is shown: suppliers use different identifiers for this material, and none could be confirmed as its own.

Safety and compliance

This page is general information, not a safety assessment or a specification. Confirm identity, composition, IFRA status and allergen content from your supplier's documents for the lot you hold.

Materials it works with

Used in formulas and accords

Used in 15 published formulas

Blood Orange Oil is an ingredient in 12 perfume formulas and 3 accords in the Formula & Accord Library.

Community formulas

RUŌOD House Originals

Original compositions by RUŌOD House.

Further reading

Questions about Blood Orange Oil

Is Blood Orange Oil natural or synthetic?

Blood Orange Oil is natural. It is a volatile oil obtained from plant material by steam distillation or, for citrus peels, by cold expression.

Which published formulas use Blood Orange Oil?

Blood Orange Oil is used in 15 published formulas in the RUŌOD Lab Formula & Accord Library, including Aperol Spritz Accord, Bright Resin Accord and Cardamom Crema. Each is listed with a link under "Used in formulas and accords" on this page.

Sources

Your own records, next to the reference

Keep your own record of Blood Orange Oil — supplier, cost, stock, dilutions and where it is used — in RUŌOD Lab's material library.

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