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Lime

Ingredients · Citrus · top note

Lime oil, distilled

Sharp, candied, cola-like lime; terpenic, with a sweet pine-lilac note.

What it is
Natural oil from steam-distilled from crushed whole limes or juice pulp.
Where it comes from
Mexico, Peru
When you smell it
Top notes: when you spray it.
What perfumers do with it
Gives a sweet, fizzy lime-soda effect; not phototoxic, so usable freely in skin products.
Worth knowing
Juice acids rearrange the oil during distillation, creating terpineol and the classic cola-drink lime flavor.
Rules
Limited. Not phototoxic; limonene peroxide specification applies
Also called
Distilled Mexican / West Indian lime oil

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