Organic Petitgrain Essential Oil

Several different essential oils are created from pomelo and mandarin orange hybrid better known as the bitter orange tree. Petitigrain oil is extracted from leaves and branches. Neroli comes from the flowers and bitter orange oil is cold pressed from fruit peels. An early product was neroli oil, popularized after the Italian princess Anna-Marie de Nerola used bitter orange blossoms to scent her gloves. Petitgrain came next and was originally extracted from the small, unripe fruit of the tree, a practice which has stopped but resulted in the oil’s name, which means “little grain” in French[. Today the oil is extracted from leaves and branches, lending a woody scent but with many of the same benefits as neroli, which comes from the flowers. Treatments using this tree were popular among Arabian physicians in the Middle Ages and in Traditional Chinese Medicine to treat nausea, indigestion, cardiovascular conditions, and more. It gained attention in the early 2000s as a possible substitute