bergamot

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Many key natural ingredients such as bergamot, and historically important aromachemicals like nitro musks, are now highly restricted.

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  1. noun A small tree (Citrus aurantium subsp. bergamia) commercially grown chiefly in southern Italy for its sour citrus fruits, the rinds of which yield an aromatic oil. Also called bergamot orange.
  2. noun The oil itself, used extensively in perfumery. Also called bergamot oil.
  3. noun See bee balm.

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  • Described appropriately as a cologne for those with a "devotion to living each day as it could be your last" the cologne has top notes of green mandarin, bergamot, and lavender, with base notes of leather and grey musk. —  TrekMovie.com
  • Many key natural ingredients such as bergamot, and historically important aromachemicals like nitro musks, are now highly restricted. —  Perfume-Smellin' Things Perfume Blog
  • It is described as a cologne for those with a "devotion to living each day as it could be your last" and smells like green mandarin, bergamot, and lavender, with notes of leather and grey musk. —  ShowHype - Top Entertainment News, Videos, and Blogs
  • The cologne has top notes of green mandarin, bergamot, and lavender, with base notes of leather and grey musk. —  The Seventh Sense
  • I've actually taken to brewing a cup of earl grey tea and leaving it on my desk, so that the bergamot is a sort of scent barrier. —  Apartment Therapy Main
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  1. French bergamote, from Italian bergamotta, from Turkish dialectal beg-armudu, bey's pear : beg, bey; see bey + armud, pear + -u, possessive suff.

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  1. Formerly also burgamot, burgemott, bourgamot, apparently from Bergamo, a town in Italy. Cf. bergamot.
  2. from French bergamote, from Italian bergamotto, apparently a perversion, simulating a connection with Bergamo, a town in Italy (cf. bergamot), of Turkish begarmūdi, literally (like the G. name fürstenbirne) prince's pear, from bcg, a prince (see bey), + armūd, a pear.
 

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