Bergamot essential oil from the water. The rinds of 100 bergamot oranges yield about of bergamot oil. Bergamot essential oil has been used in cosmetics, aromatherapy, and as a flavoring in food and beverages. Historically, bergamot essential oil was an important ingredient in Eau de Cologne, a perfume originally concocted by Johann Maria Farina at the beginning of the 18th century. The first record of bergamot oil used as a fragrance in perfume is from 1714, found in the Farina Archive in Cologne. The volatile oils of the bergamot orange are described as flavoring agents in the USP Food Chemicals Codex and are
Strange Fruit: A Dutch Queer Collective 128). Strange Fruit embraced, what normative society considered, "non canonical bodies" (Tayeb: 128). Brown and Black bodies were marginalized and othered because they were see as "unable to fit" they did not fit the western cultural ideal so therefore they were not acceptable. Ethnic queers were seen as unable to attain a true gay identity because they did not fall under the conceptualized "white standard" of being queer (Tayeb: 129). Brown bodies were considered bodies that could not "properly be gay." Most importantly Strange Fruit recognized the ridicule ethnic queers faced within the parameters of their own culture. It is