Essential oils · Citrus family
Bergamot essential oil
Citrus bergamia
Cam bergamot · Rutaceae
Citrus, but with flowers in it. The opening is sour and green, then very quickly turns into a soft sweetness that orange and lemon do not have.
That layer comes from linalyl acetate and linalool — exactly the two main compounds of lavender. In other words, bergamot is a citrus fruit carrying half the formula of a flower, and that is why it can bridge two scent families.
If you have ever drunk Earl Grey tea, you already know this smell, because what makes Earl Grey different from ordinary black tea is bergamot. Smelling the oil and then the tea tin is the quickest way to fix it in memory.
- Plant part
- Fruit peel
- Method
- Cold pressing
- Vietnamese name
- Cam bergamot
- Scent family
- Citrus
- Plant family
- Rutaceae
- Lots published
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Published lots
No lots yet. When the first lot arrives, its GC/MS analysis will be published here — unedited, with the lot number printed on the bottle label.
Buy Bergamot
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Elsewhere in the catalogue
No lot of this oil yet. The oils below are close to it botanically or in how they are extracted — some of them already have lots.
Same plant family: Rutaceae Blood orange · Cold-pressed lemon peel · Lemon · Neroli · Pomelo blossom · Red mandarin · Sweet orange
Also from the fruit peel Blood orange · Lemon · Mandarin peel · Orange peel · Red mandarin · Sweet orange
Same method: cold pressing Blood orange · Lemon · Mandarin peel · Orange peel · Red mandarin · Sweet orange