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Chinotto blossom comes from Citrus myrtifolia, a small, bitter citrus tree native to southern China and cultivated mainly in Liguria (Italy) and Corsica. The tree produces small, intensely bitter fruits used in the Italian soft drink chinotto. The blossoms are small, white, and fragrant -- similar in appearance to orange blossom but with a distinctly more bitter, green character.

No commercial essential oil of chinotto blossom is widely produced. The aromatic profile overlaps with neroli (from bitter orange blossom) but is greener, more astringent, and less sweet. Key volatile components likely include linalool, linalyl acetate, limonene, and nerolidol -- the standard citrus-flower toolkit -- but with a higher proportion of bitter, green elements.

In perfumery, chinot to blossom works as a bitter-green modifier to standard neroli or orange blossom accords. It adds astringency and a particular Italian-Mediterranean character. The note functions in the top-to-heart zone of hesperidic, green-floral, and Mediterranean compositions.

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