Essential oils · Floral family
Pomelo blossom essential oil
Citrus maxima
Hoa bưởi · Rutaceae
White flowers, sweet and waxy, with a green edge of citrus peel. It is close to neroli, but rounder and sweeter.
Pomelo blossom does not survive distillation, so the product is an absolute extracted with solvent. An absolute keeps the waxy, honeyed part that steam takes away, and so it is closer to the flower on the branch.
People in northern Vietnam know this smell from February, when pomelo flowers are sold by weight to scent tapioca flour and tea. It is one of the very few flower scents Vietnamese people use to perfume food, so the memory of it lives on the tongue as well as in the nose.
- Plant part
- Flowers
- Method
- Solvent extraction
- Vietnamese name
- Hoa bưởi
- Scent family
- Floral
- 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 Pomelo blossom
This oil is in the catalogue but no lot has been brought in, so it is not on sale yet. Message us if you need it — what we stock next depends on what buyers ask for.
In the scent dictionary: Hoa bưởi — a description of the smell, the compounds behind it, and how to smell it for yourself.
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 Bergamot · Cold-pressed lemon peel · Kaffir lime leaf · Neroli · Petitgrain · Pomelo peel · Red mandarin
Also from the flowers Jasmine sambac · Moroccan blue chamomile · Neroli · Osmanthus · Roman chamomile · Saffron · Tagetes · Tuberose
Same method: solvent extraction Champaca · Jasmine grandiflorum · Jasmine sambac · Labdanum · Osmanthus · Rose absolute