(Citrus sinensis, Citrus aurantium var. dulcis)
Family: Rutaceae
Description: The sweet-orange tree is smaller than the bitter orange and has dark-green, shiny leaves, fragrant white flowers and abundant fruit. The essential oil is expressed from the peel of the nearly ripe fruit.
Countries of origin: Israel, Brazil, America, Italy, Australia
Characteristics: Orange has sweet, fresh, fruity top notes and radiant, sensuous undertones. It blends well with other citruses and spices, and also with sandalwood, neroli, clary sage, myrrh, geranium, palmarosa and frankincense.
Main therapeutic properties: Anti-depressant, anti-inflammatory, antiseptic, antispasmodic, carminative, digestive, sedative, stomachic, tonic.
Orange is known as the ‘smiley oil’ and is familiar, joyful and warming. It is gentle enough to use on children who enjoy its fruity fragrance. Orange is very good in local massage and compresses for settling digestive upsets, and has a normalizing, regulating effect that is beneficial for constipation, cramps, diarrhoea and flatulence. Overall, orange is tonic, soothing and refreshing.
Orange has a similar (though considerably lesser) effect to neroli on the nervous system, and is good in massage and baths for anxiety, stress and insomnia. It is good in massage oils and it is used in the bath to help relieve anxiety, stress and insomnia.
Psychologically, orange is cheering and uplifting, helping you to find laughter and joy in life. Orange is reputed to reduce an irrational fear of the unknown and it can lessen self-doubt. It can help you to find an inner radiance and optimism. Orange also helps to stimulate and refresh stagnant subtle energies.
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