Definition of Neroli oil

1. Noun. An odoriferous yellow oil found in orange flowers and used in perfumery and as a flavoring.

Generic synonyms: Oil

Lexicographical Neighbors of Neroli Oil

nerita
nerite
nerites
neritic
neritic zone
neritid
neritid gastropod
neritina
nerk
nerka
nerkas
nerks
nero
nerol
neroli
neroli oil (current term)
nerolidol
nerolis
nerols
neropteral
nerts
nertz
nerval
nervate
nervation
nervations
nervature
nervatures
nerve
nerve-ending

Literary usage of Neroli oil

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1911)
"Orange-flower Oil (neroli oil). This oil is obtained by the distillation of the ... neroli oil is yellowish, slightly fluorescent with a powerful odour of ..."

2. The Chemistry of Essential Oils and Artificial Perfumes by Ernest John Parry (1908)
"It is intermediate in composition between orange oil and neroli oil. It contains methyl-anthranilate and also traces of a pyrrol compound. ..."

3. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1860)
"... and cannot therefore be prepared by agitating the neroli-oil with water (Le Roy), or by agitating with water neroli-oil triturated with magnesia (Cot- ..."

4. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention (1904)
"The general characters of this oil, shown in comparison with those of Chinese neroli oil, French neroli oil, and petitgrain oils, are set out in the ..."

5. The Volatile Oils by Eduard Gildemeister, Friedrich Hoffmann (1900)
"Larger additions cause an increase in the specific gravity and the amount of esters, which in pure neroli oil is 7—is percent (saponification number ..."

6. A Practical Treatise on Animal and Vegetable Fats and Oils: Comprising Both by William Theodore Brannt, Karl Schaedler (1896)
"Hence the hydrocarbon of neroli oil is limonene. On account of the high price of orange-flower oil it is largely adulterated, especially with alcohol, ..."

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