Botanical Name: Citrus Reticulata

Origin: Sicily

Mandarin Essential Oil is available in three different variants, Green, Yellow and Red, the natural chemistry and aroma of all three is different due to the time the fruit is processed.

A simple way to explain this is if you think of the Mandarin tree, first the fruit is green in colour, all the immature/weak fruits on the tree are thinned out, and these fruits are collected and processed. At this stage the green coloured fruit is clearly underdeveloped and posses a different natural chemistry to that of the yellow and red fruits which will follow in later months. For example the green variant contains less natural sugars which alone results in a far sharper aroma than the red variant.

Green Mandarin Oil is extremely popular within the perfumery industry and it is very uplifting, possibly the best citrus oil to help people to 'switch off' and completely relax.