Petitgrain oil Paraguay

Petitgrain oil Paraguay is obtained from an acclimatized variety of the bitter orange tree. Citrus aurantium L. subsp. aurantium, which is grown in Paraguay. It is pale yellow liquid with a characteristic, strong, pleasant odor, reminiscent of linalool and linalyl acetate. 

Petitgrain Oil, Paraguay Type, occurs as a yellow to brown-yellow liquid with a somewhat harsh, bittersweet, floral odor. It is the volatile oil obtained by steam distillation from the leaves and small twigs of the bitter orange tree, Citrus auran-tium L. subspecies amara (Fam. Rutaceae). It is soluble in most fixed oils and is soluble, with opalescence or turbidity,... 

Petitgrain oil is obtained from the leaves (also twigs) of bitter orange by steam distillation in about 0.2% yield. Major producers include France, Haiti, Paraguay, and Guinea. 

ISO/DIS 3064 , Essential oil of petitgrain, Paraguayan type (Citrus aurantium L. var. Paraguay (syn. Citrus aurantium var. bigaradia Hook f.)), ISO, 2010, Geneva, Switzerland, http //www.iso.org (accessed January 2014). 

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