NO. 73 Fragrance Oil for Soaps & Candles - Mediterranean

Product Details

NO. 73 - Mediterranean Fragrance Oil

Scent Profile

NO. 73, Mediterranean fragrance oil is a floral oriental with water notes. Fresh, musky and slightly sweet, though perfectly balanced with airy oceanic accords and notes of Sea Salt. It’s the scent of millennia, of ancient civilizations and would evoke memories for everyone who ever sailed The Med in the last two thousand years!

Fresh zesty notes of Grapefruit, Sweet Orange, and Mandarin, embrace and invigorate you, while bright notes of Mint, Pine and Cumin add sharp, spicy, woody notes. Juicy plum rounds out those sublime heart notes masterfully and softens and smooths.

It's the final flourish of Cinnamon, Clove, Sandalwood and Dark Musk that reminds you of the trade from the Orient and the Silk Road that passed through the Mediterranean. Spicy, exotic, mysterious and rather enticing.

Fragrance Notes

- Top: Mandarin, Sweet Orange, Ozone, Petitgrain
- Middle: Cumin, Eucalyptus, Plum, Sea Salt
- Base: Clove, Dark Musk, Sandalwood

Flash Point

>200°F

Use for NO. 73 Fragrance Oil

Aromatherapy

NO. 73, Mediterranean fragrance oil transports you to the shining mystical waters of the Mediterranean. Delve into the warm turquoise sun-kissed waters, reputed to hide the lost city of Atlantis, with this watery floral, oriental scent.

Perfectly balanced, salty, airy, oceanic accords meet the fruits, woods, spices and herbs of the Mediterranean shorelines and craggy cliffs. Orange tumbles through Grapefruit and Petitgrain for invigorating freshness and plenty of zing!

Herbs like Mint, entwine with lightly spicy Cumin and juicy Plums. But it is the subtle Pine notes that uplift this fragrance in the heart notes and bring airiness and joy.

Homage is paid to the Silk Road trade with the dark exotic mysteries of Cinnamon, Clove, precious Sandalwood and dark Musk.

If you could take the scent of millennia and the ancient civilizations of the Mediterranean and bottle it, this is what you would get.

It’s airy and fresh, spicy and musky and salty-sweet, making it an ideal choice for your Signature Home Scent and layering with essential oils.

Reed Diffusers and Candles

It is a wonderful choice for any room in the home, perfect for the airy, freshness needed in kitchens and bathrooms but also rich and appealing, for more sophisticated settings.

We think it has incredible versatility due to its range of different scent notes.

Use it to create an airy atmosphere with a touch of mystery and drama. It encourages you to dream about places where the Lemon groves reach down to the sun-shimmering turquoise sea.

Custom Soap and Bath Products

We love this for creating sophisticated and luxurious oceanic-themed cold process or melt-and-pour soap to fragrance your body and bathroom beautifully.

Give it a go when you are making beauty gifts and toiletries with a Mediterranean feel to them. Though it offers more mystery, drama and excitement and has something deeper, that lingers and simply keeps you coming back for more.

Air Fresheners and Linen Sprays

It is so easy to make a room spray with NO. 73 Soaps & Candles Fragrance Oil. Use it to scent the furniture, sheets, and carpets. Set the scene in your chosen rooms with a quick spritz of this fresh, airy and dramatic fragrance.

Crafting Projects

NO. 73 Soaps & Candles Fragrance Oil is a popular choice for making candles, reed diffusers and soy wax melts with fresh airy notes with heart notes that evolve depth, mystery and drama. A sublime sensation, perfect for any space in the home.

It is also a popular choice for making Mediterranean or Silk Road-themed beauty gifts and toiletries, where you want to demand a little more from your fragrance oil and get depth, drama and mystery too! It blends so easily with other herbs, florals, and woods to create unique body lotions, hand creams, and bath oils.

IFRA Guidelines for Maximum Dilution

Maximum dilution for this fragrance oil depends on the products you are planning on making.

It should be noted that maximum dilutions are from a safety aspect only, based on the chemical composition of the oil. In some cases, these are very high because all components are relatively benign. These amounts are not necessarily recommendations of how much to use in your recipe. They may smell too strong or make the item prohibitively expensive to produce. As long as you remain below the advised limits, you can be as generous or parsimonious as you like. Use more, use less. We’ll leave the creative stuff to you.

Based on the ingredients used, as per the , the following maximum dilutions apply.

Directions for Use

Candles

Candles and related scented items fall under Category 12 of the IFRA safety standards. NO. 73 Soaps & Candles Fragrance Oil has no restrictions on use for category 12. Feel free to use as much or as little as pleases your nose.

Soaps and Bathroom Fragrances

NO. 73 Soaps & Candles Fragrance Oil lends itself well to bathroom products. Maximum dilution for soaps, shampoos, or any other IFRA category 9 product is 7.6%. This category also covers laundry pretreatment and cleaning products.

Maximum dilution for making an aerosol room spray or any other item that will be propelled using a pump is category 10B and 23.39%.

Hand Made Perfumery

Fragrance oils make wonderful additions to handmade perfumes. For cologne in category 3B designed to be applied to freshly shaved skin, a maximum dilution of 1.3% is appropriate. This would apply to both Eau de Toilettes and fine fragrances. For hydroalcoholic perfumery products in category 3A, designed to be used on unshaved skin at a maximum dilution of 1.3%.

Body Care

As per the IFRA regulations, the maximum safe dilution for NO. 73 Soaps & Candles Fragrance Oil for category 5A is set at 1.96% if it is used for body creams, foot care products, insect repellents or talcum powder.

For specialized hand creams or fragrance hand sanitizers in category 5C, the maximum dilution would be 1.96%.

Safety & Additional Information

Safety Caution

NO. 73 Soaps & Candles Fragrance Oil is not approved under IFRA safety guidelines for any kind of lip or mouth-related products as per their categories 1 and 6.

We recommend testing a small amount before scaling up to larger-size formulations. As with all VINEVIDA products. These fragrance oils are intended for external use only and should not be ingested under any circumstances.

NO. 73 Soaps & Candles Fragrance Oil is not a pure essential oil but rather contains fixatives to make a longer-lasting and more fragrant product. It works beautifully for Candle Making, Soap Making, and in Personal Care Applications such as Lotion, Shampoo, and Liquid Soap. This list is not exhaustive and we invite you to play, create, and invent a million other ways to use it.

While NO. 73 Soaps & Candles Fragrance Oil will have no therapeutic properties, because it is a synthetic product, it’s a wonderful way to scent your home. Have the best time experimenting and making your home an ever more beautiful expression of you every day.

Protect Surfaces and Furnishings From Fragrance Oil

As oil-based products, fragrance oils may stain polished surfaces, furniture and furnishings. Please protect surfaces before use.

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