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Citral

CAS 5392-40-5  ·  Synthetic  ·  Top note  ·  Bright citrus

Impact

7 of 10

Substantivity

12 hours on a blotter

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Citrus 55%Herbal 27%Aldehydic 18%
lemon 61%aromatic 27%metallic 12%

What does Citral smell like?

Intense, sharp lemon-peel note, sweet and slightly herbal-metallic, the defining odorant of lemon and lemongrass. Boosts and extends all lemon accords; a known sensitizer with a strict IFRA standard.

lemoncitruszestyherbalmetallicsweet

Use Citral in a formula

What else is Citral called?

Citral Extra  ·  Geranial + Neral  ·  Lemarome  ·  Lemsyn  ·  3,7-Dimethyl-2,6-octadienal  ·  Geranial/neral mixture

Restricted under IFRA. This material carries a restriction. PerfuMate checks your formula against the 51st Amendment as you build, including the same molecule arriving from several naturals at once. What that covers, and what it does not.

How much Citral can go in a perfume (IFRA limit) Check a formula with Citral in the free IFRA calculator

Work out a 10% dilution of Citral with the free dilution calculator

Which materials are closest to Citral?

Ranked by shared olfactive sub-categories, not alphabetically.

Published formulas using Citral

Published formulas: PerfuMate's house accords and formulas members chose to publish. The figure is its share of the concentrate.

What blends well with Citral?

Read from the published formulas: beside Citral in at least two of them.

What can replace Citral?

Computed, not collected from forums. A pair covers together what one cannot. The number is how much of this material's character a bottle carries, not a promise that it is the same thing.

  • Litsea Cubeba Essential Oil
    carries Lemon citrus, Aromatic herbal, Zesty citrus. Metallic aldehydic; Citric aldehydic; a natural standing in for a molecule: it brings more than the note you are replacing; lasts about 2.0x shorter on paper
    70%
  • Geranial 59% + Clonal 41%
    carries Lemon citrus, Zesty citrus, Metallic aldehydic, Citric aldehydic. Aromatic herbal; Geranial brings the Lemon citrus side (59%); Clonal brings the Metallic aldehydic side (41%)
    76%
  • Litsea Cubeba Essential Oil 80% + Clonal 20%
    carries Lemon citrus, Aromatic herbal, Zesty citrus. Metallic aldehydic; Citric aldehydic; Litsea Cubeba Essential Oil brings the Lemon citrus side (80%); Clonal brings the Metallic aldehydic side (20%); a natural standing in for a molecule: it brings more than the note you are replacing
    75%
  • Litsea Cubeba Essential Oil 77% + Lemon Oil Terpeneless 24%
    carries Lemon citrus, Aromatic herbal, Zesty citrus, Citric aldehydic. Metallic aldehydic; Litsea Cubeba Essential Oil brings the Lemon citrus side (77%); Lemon Oil Terpeneless brings the Lemon citrus side (23%); a natural standing in for a molecule: it brings more than the note you are replacing; lasts about 2.1x shorter on paper
    74%
  • para-Cymene 81% + Clonal 19%
    carries Lemon citrus, Aromatic herbal, Zesty citrus. Metallic aldehydic; Citric aldehydic; para-Cymene brings the Zesty citrus side (81%); Clonal brings the Metallic aldehydic side (19%); lasts about 2.2x shorter on paper
    74%

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Citral

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
3
Sub-categories under them
3
Impact, out of 10
7
Hours on a blotter
12 hours
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
6
Constituent breakdown
not on file

All 2,211 materials

Described in words
every one
Impact rating out of 10
2125
Classified into an olfactive family
2,172
Carrying several families, in order
2,070
Sub-category assignments
9,899 across 229 pairs
A top / heart / base band
2,157
Hours on a blotter
898
CAS number
1,642
Supplier synonyms
5,888 names
Constituent breakdowns
739

Every regulatory join - IFRA, GHS, allergens - is by CAS number, and a material can supply one through its constituents as well as its own row, so of the 569 materials carrying no CAS number the 244 without a constituent table are the ones that return "nothing known" rather than "nothing applies". The blotter hours are sourced rather than measured by us, and the app labels every one of them an estimate. There is no physical chemistry on a row: no molecular weight, no vapour pressure, no boiling point. The longer answer, or the whole catalog counted.