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Lemon Essential Oil Distilled

CAS 8008-56-8  ·  Natural  ·  Top note  ·  Bright citrus

Impact

5 of 10

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Citrus 67%Green 33%
lemon 67%leafy 33%

What does Lemon Essential Oil Distilled smell like?

Steam-distilled lemon peel: thinner, sharper and more terpenic than the expressed oil, with less of its juicy zest-cell richness. Distillation leaves the furocoumarins behind, so this is the lemon to reach for in leave-on skin products where the expressed oil's phototoxicity cap bites.

lemoncitruszestyfreshgreen

Use Lemon Essential Oil Distilled in a formula

What is Lemon Essential Oil Distilled made of?

An estimate, not a certificate of analysis. PerfuMate sums it when it checks a formula; paste your own supplier analysis and it takes over.

ConstituentCASShare
Limonene 138-86-3 70%
gamma-Terpinene 99-85-4 10%
beta-Pinene 127-91-3 8%
Citral 5392-40-5 1.5%
Linalool 78-70-6 0.2%
Geraniol 106-24-1 0.05%

What else is Lemon Essential Oil Distilled called?

Lemon Oil Distilled  ·  Distilled Lemon Oil  ·  Lemon Distilled  ·  Steam Distilled Lemon  ·  Citrus limon distilled oil

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.

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What can replace Lemon Essential Oil Distilled?

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.

  • Verbena Essential Oil
    carries Lemon citrus, Zesty citrus. Leafy green; lasts about 2.6x longer on paper
    71%
  • Geranial 46% + Lemon Tea Tree Essential Oil 54%
    carries Lemon citrus, Zesty citrus. Leafy green; Geranial brings the Lemon citrus side (46%); Lemon Tea Tree Essential Oil brings the Lemon citrus side (54%)
    79%
  • Geranial 65% + Lime Essential Oil 36%
    carries Lemon citrus, Zesty citrus. Leafy green; Geranial brings the Lemon citrus side (65%); Lime Essential Oil brings the Lime citrus side (35%); lasts about 2.5x longer on paper
    79%
  • Geranial 50% + Lemon Tea Tree Essential Oil 10% + Lime Zest (F-TEC) 40%
    carries Lemon citrus, Zesty citrus. Leafy green; Geranial brings the Lemon citrus side (50%); Lemon Tea Tree Essential Oil brings the Lemon citrus side (10%); Lime Zest (F-TEC) brings the Lime citrus side (40%)
    83%
  • Geranial 56% + Lime Zest (F-TEC) 44%
    carries Lemon citrus, Zesty citrus. Leafy green; Geranial brings the Lemon citrus side (56%); Lime Zest (F-TEC) brings the Lime citrus side (44%); a molecule standing in for a natural: the rest of the oil does not come with it
    78%

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Which materials are closest to Lemon Essential Oil Distilled?

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How much does PerfuMate know about one material?

Counted from the file the app ships, the moment this page was built.

Lemon Essential Oil Distilled

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
2
Sub-categories under them
2
Impact, out of 10
5
Hours on a blotter
estimated from family and band
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
5
Constituent breakdown
6 molecules

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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.