Cocktails with Orange blossom water
Orange blossom water is a clear, non-alcoholic aromatic water produced as a by-product of steam-distilling fresh bitter-orange blossoms.
Taste profile
A pronounced floral orange-blossom aroma dominates, with a delicate, honeyed sweetness of scent rather than sugar and a clean, watery body.
How it's used
An aromatizer added in very small measure — a few drops or a light dash — to perfume a drink with orange-blossom scent. Aromatic strength varies widely between single- and multiple-distilled products and between diluted commercial and concentrated artisanal forms, so quantity is judged to taste rather than by fixed volume.
Substitutes for Orange blossom water
Only another orange-blossom-derived aromatic, such as heavily diluted neroli, approximates it; where the orange-blossom aroma is the drink's defining note, nothing else supplies it and it is effectively not substitutable.
Often confused with
Rose water
Rose water is the distillation hydrosol of rose petals, while orange blossom water is the hydrosol of bitter-orange blossoms. Both are clear floral distillate waters used the same way as aromatizers, but their aromatic sources are entirely different.
Neroli essential oil
