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Melissa Essential Oil

CAS 8014-71-9  ·  Natural  ·  Heart note  ·  Aromatic herb

Impact

7 of 10

Substantivity

5.0 days on a blotter

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Herbal 50%Citrus 25%Green 17%Gourmand 8%
aromatic 50%lemon 33%minty 17%

What does Melissa Essential Oil smell like?

True lemon balm: luminous citral-lemon over a green herbaceous heart, softer and more honeyed than lemongrass. Precious and dosed in traces for natural lemony sparkle.

herballemoncitrusgreenhoneyfresh

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What is Melissa 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
Citral 5392-40-5 45%
Citronellal 106-23-0 10%
Geraniol 106-24-1 2%
Linalool 78-70-6 1%

What else is Melissa Essential Oil called?

Melissa Oil  ·  Lemon balm oil  ·  Melissa officinalis  ·  Melissa

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 Melissa 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.

  • Verbena Absolute
    carries Aromatic herbal, Lemon citrus, Herbal green. Minty herbal; Honey gourmand
    61%
  • Verbena Absolute 63% + Peppermint Absolute 37%
    carries Aromatic herbal, Lemon citrus, Herbal green. Minty herbal; Honey gourmand; Verbena Absolute brings the Lemon citrus side (63%); Peppermint Absolute brings the Minty herbal side (37%)
    71%
  • Armoise (F-TEC) 46% + Verbena Absolute 54%
    carries Aromatic herbal, Herbal green. Lemon citrus; Minty herbal; Honey gourmand; Armoise (F-TEC) brings the Aromatic herbal side (46%); Verbena Absolute brings the Lemon citrus side (54%)
    70%
  • Verbena Absolute 62% + Isopulegol 38%
    carries Aromatic herbal, Lemon citrus, Herbal green. Minty herbal; Honey gourmand; Verbena Absolute brings the Lemon citrus side (62%); Isopulegol brings the Minty herbal side (38%)
    70%
  • Verbena Absolute 77% + Frescolat MGA 23%
    carries Lemon citrus, Minty herbal, Herbal green. Aromatic herbal; Honey gourmand; Verbena Absolute brings the Lemon citrus side (77%); Frescolat MGA brings the Minty herbal side (23%)
    70%

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Which materials are closest to Melissa Essential Oil?

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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.

Melissa Essential Oil

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
4
Sub-categories under them
3
Impact, out of 10
7
Hours on a blotter
5.0 days
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
4
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.