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Lime Essential Oil

CAS 8008-26-2  ·  Natural  ·  Top note  ·  Zesty peel

Impact

7 of 10

Substantivity

20 hours on a blotter

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Citrus 67%Green 33%
lime 44%leafy 33%zesty 22%

What does Lime Essential Oil smell like?

The everyday lime: sharp, fresh, zesty-green citrus with a candied cola facet. Distilled lime is the workhorse of colognes and fresh accords.

citruslimezestyfreshgreen

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What is Lime 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 50%
Citral 5392-40-5 1%
Linalool 78-70-6 0.3%
Geraniol 106-24-1 0.2%

What else is Lime Essential Oil called?

Lime  ·  Lime Oil  ·  Lime EO

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 Lime Essential Oil?

Ranked by shared olfactive sub-categories, not alphabetically.

What can replace Lime 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.

  • Lime FCF Essential Oil
    carries Lime citrus, Leafy green, 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%
  • Lime Zest (F-TEC) 80% + Combava Petitgrain Essential Oil 20%
    carries Lime citrus, Leafy green, Zesty citrus. Lime Zest (F-TEC) brings the Lime citrus side (80%); Combava Petitgrain Essential Oil brings the Lime citrus side (20%); lasts about 3.6x shorter on paper
    82%
  • Lime Zest (F-TEC)
    carries Lime citrus, Leafy green, Zesty citrus. A molecule standing in for a natural: the rest of the oil does not come with it; lasts about 3.3x shorter on paper
    76%
  • Lime Essential Oil Expressed 62% + Kaffir Lime Essential Oil 38%
    carries Lime citrus, Zesty citrus. Leafy green; Lime Essential Oil Expressed brings the Lime citrus side (62%); Kaffir Lime Essential Oil brings the Lime citrus side (38%)
    79%
  • Lime Essential Oil Expressed
    carries Lime citrus, Leafy green. Zesty citrus; the same oil in another grade (same CAS)
    74%

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

Lime Essential Oil

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
2
Sub-categories under them
3
Impact, out of 10
7
Hours on a blotter
20 hours
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
3
Constituent breakdown
4 molecules

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.