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Lemon FCF Essential Oil

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

Impact

5 of 10

Substantivity

4.0 hours on a blotter

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Citrus 67%Aldehydic 33%
lemon 100%

What does Lemon FCF Essential Oil smell like?

Bright, sharp, juicy-fresh lemon peel with a zesty, slightly aldehydic sparkle. Used for instant freshness in top notes of colognes, chypres and functional perfumery; fades quickly so it is often paired with citral or Lemonile for persistence. FCF grade: bergapten/furocoumarins removed for photo-safety; the scent profile is essentially the same, marginally less full in the deep facets.

lemoncitruszestyfreshaldehydic

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What is Lemon FCF Essential Oil 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 66%
Citral 5392-40-5 2.5%
Linalool 78-70-6 0.3%
Geraniol 106-24-1 0.1%
Citronellal 106-23-0 0.1%

What else is Lemon FCF Essential Oil called?

Lemon FCF  ·  Lemon FCF oil  ·  Bergapten-free Lemon  ·  Furocoumarin-free Lemon

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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Which materials are closest to Lemon FCF Essential Oil?

Ranked by shared olfactive sub-categories, not alphabetically.

What can replace Lemon FCF Essential Oil?

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.

  • Lemon Essential Oil
    carries Lemon citrus, Citric aldehydic, Zesty citrus. The same oil in another grade (same CAS); our catalog cannot tell these two apart by their notes, so smell them side by side
    95%
  • Lemon Tea Tree Essential Oil 79% + Geranial 21%
    carries Lemon citrus, Zesty citrus. Citric aldehydic; Lemon Tea Tree Essential Oil brings the Lemon citrus side (79%); Geranial brings the Lemon citrus side (21%)
    80%
  • Lemon Tea Tree Essential Oil
    carries Lemon citrus, Citric aldehydic, Zesty citrus
    74%
  • Geranial 54% + Bergamal 46%
    carries Lemon citrus, Zesty citrus. Citric aldehydic; Geranial brings the Lemon citrus side (54%); Bergamal brings the Bergamot citrus side (46%); a molecule standing in for a natural: the rest of the oil does not come with it
    78%
  • Bergamal 51% + Lemon Essential Oil Distilled 49%
    carries Lemon citrus, Zesty citrus. Citric aldehydic; Bergamal brings the Bergamot citrus side (51%); Lemon Essential Oil Distilled brings the Lemon citrus side (49%)
    76%

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Lemon FCF Essential Oil

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
2
Sub-categories under them
1
Impact, out of 10
5
Hours on a blotter
4.0 hours
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
4
Constituent breakdown
5 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.