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d-Limonene

CAS 5989-27-5  ·  Synthetic  ·  Top note  ·  Bright citrus

Impact

3 of 10

Substantivity

4.0 hours on a blotter

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Citrus 100%
sweet-orange 82%zesty 18%

What does d-Limonene smell like?

Simple, fresh orange-peel terpene note, light and diffusive but very fleeting. Used as an inexpensive citrus filler and solvent-like lifter in top notes; prone to oxidation, hence IFRA-flagged.

citrusorangezestyfresh

Use d-Limonene in a formula

What else is d-Limonene called?

Limonene  ·  (R)-(+)-Limonene  ·  Citrene

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 d-Limonene can go in a perfume (IFRA limit) Check a formula with d-Limonene in the free IFRA calculator

Work out a 10% dilution of d-Limonene with the free dilution calculator

Which materials are closest to d-Limonene?

Ranked by shared olfactive sub-categories, not alphabetically.

Published formulas using d-Limonene

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

What blends well with d-Limonene?

Read from the published formulas: beside d-Limonene in at least two of them.

What can replace d-Limonene?

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.

  • Orange Terpenes
    carries Sweet orange citrus, Peel citrus. Zesty citrus; a natural standing in for a molecule: it brings more than the note you are replacing
    77%
  • Orange Terpenes 64% + Orange (F-TEC) 36%
    carries Sweet orange citrus, Peel citrus. Zesty citrus; Orange Terpenes brings the Sweet orange citrus side (64%); Orange (F-TEC) brings the Sweet orange citrus side (36%); a natural standing in for a molecule: it brings more than the note you are replacing
    82%
  • Orange Terpenes 83% + Grapefruit Essential Oil 17%
    carries Sweet orange citrus, Peel citrus. Zesty citrus; Orange Terpenes brings the Sweet orange citrus side (83%); Grapefruit Essential Oil brings the White grapefruit citrus side (17%); a natural standing in for a molecule: it brings more than the note you are replacing
    81%
  • Orange Terpenes 73% + alpha-Sinensal 27%
    carries Sweet orange citrus, Peel citrus. Zesty citrus; Orange Terpenes brings the Sweet orange citrus side (73%); alpha-Sinensal brings the Sweet orange citrus side (27%); a natural standing in for a molecule: it brings more than the note you are replacing
    79%
  • Orange (F-TEC) 60% + Orange Power Givco 229 40%
    carries Sweet orange citrus, Zesty citrus. Peel citrus; Orange (F-TEC) brings the Sweet orange citrus side (60%); Orange Power Givco 229 brings the Sweet orange citrus side (40%); louder, so use a little less
    79%

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d-Limonene

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
1
Sub-categories under them
2
Impact, out of 10
3
Hours on a blotter
4.0 hours
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
3
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.