page_title: Bergamot essential oil
section_title: Production
hierarchical_section_title: Bergamot essential oil / Production
caption_attribution_description: Reggio Calabria - "Macchina Calabrese" per la spremitura dei bergamotti
context_page_description: Bergamot essential oil is a cold-pressed essential oil produced by cells inside the rind of a bergamot orange fruit. It is a common flavoring and top note in perfumes. The scent of bergamot essential oil is similar to a sweet light orange peel oil with a floral note.
context_section_description: The sfumatura or slow-folding process was the traditional technique for manually extracting the bergamot oil. By more modern methods, the oil is extracted mechanically with machines called "peelers", which  "scrape" the outside of the fruit under running water to get an emulsion channeled into centrifuges for separating the essence from the water. The rinds of 100 bergamot oranges yield about 3 ounces (85 g) of bergamot oil.
caption: The Macchina calabrese peeler, invented in 1840 by Nicola Barillà
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