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Citrus

Orange Essence Type GU Colgate

Original designation: Orange ESS Type GU Colgate

Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck

Sweet orange is instant radiance—juice, peel and a sunny aldehydic sparkle. Historical fractions and house types reveal how perfumers tuned that radiance, from vivid top-note flash to rounder, sweeter warmth.

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€8.50

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Orange Essence Type GU Colgate

Olfactive character

Top note

In perfumery vocabulary, Orange Essence Type GU Colgate is associated with juicy orange, sweet peel, sparkling aldehydes, green rind, candy brightness and sun-warmed zest. Its creative role is an agile top-note instrument with vivid lift, giving structure and character to complex accords.

  • juicy orange
  • sweet peel
  • sparkling aldehydes
  • green rind
  • candy brightness
  • sun-warmed zest
Train your nose with this material

At the perfumer’s organ

In the organ, use it to build cologne openings, enrich fruit-floral lift and introduce orange blossom support. As top note, it offers signature rather than mere theme.

  • cologne openings
  • fruit-floral lift
  • orange blossom support
  • gourmand brightness

Extraction & expression

An essence belongs to the more volatile, mobile side of the palette. Depending on the botanical, it may come from distillation or—in explicitly expressed citrus grades—from mechanical pressing, bringing immediacy and lift.

Perfumer’s vocabulary

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A vintage material for contemporary creation

Preserved within the Maison Orris collection assembled by 2006, this material opens a door to an earlier era of perfumery. An uncommon voice from legendary perfumery heritage, made for mature, daring compositions—a scent from the past, ready to inspire something entirely new.

Material registerCatalogue identity and recorded details
Maison Orris reference
MO-184
Historic catalogue name
Calchauvet
Availability
Available
Register reference
126746
Material type
Essential oil / Essence
Physical form
Liquid
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