| Company | Ingredient Name | ID | Comments | Naturality | Certifications | MOQ | Latin name | Treated part | Geographical origin |
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Huile Essentielle de Petit grain Citronnier - 30 gr | - |
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Huile Essentielle de Petit grain Citronnier - 30 gr
Certifications :
General Presentation
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CAS N° :
8048-51-9 -
EINECS number :
84929-31-7 -
FEMA number :
2853
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Volatility :
Head/Heart -
Price Range :
€€€
Physico chemical properties
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Appearance :
Colorless liquid -
Density :
0,860 - 0,887 @20°C -
Refractive Index @20°C :
1,472 - 1,479 @20°C -
Optical rotation :
+14° // +35° -
Vapor pressure :
Data not available. -
Flash Point :
Data not available. -
Acid Value :
Botanical informations
Botanical name :
Data not available.
Botanical profile :
The lemon tree is a tree belonging to the Rutaceae family and the genus Citrus L.
The Rutaceae family includes all citrus fruits, as well as plants such as buchu and amyris.
Chemotypes :
The Citrus L. genus, which includes the vast majority of citrus fruits, contains a large number of varieties used in perfumery:
- Citrus × aurantium L.: Bitter orange tree, cultivated in Spain and Florida. Orange oil expressed (Bitter) / Orange oil (Bitter) / Petitgrain bigarade oil / Petitgrain bigarade absolute / Petitgrain oil (Paraguay) / Orange flower absolute (Bitter) / Orange flower concrete (Bitter) / Orange flower SFE (Bitter)
- Citrus × aurantiifolia (Christm.) Swingle: The lime tree, mostly cultivated in Mexico. Lime oil expressed / Lime oil distilled
- Citrus × bergamia Risso: The bergamot tree, a hybrid of lemon and bitter orange, cultivated for its fruit and petitgrain oils. Bergamot oil expressed / Petitgrain bergamot absolute.
- Citrus hystrix DC.: Kaffir lime, grown in Thailand and India. Kaffir lime oil.
- Citrus × junos Siebold ex Yu.Tanaka: Yuzu, produced in Japan and Korea. Yuzu oil / Citrus junos oil / Citrus junos extract
- Citrus × limon (L.) Burm.fil.: The lemon tree, cultivated in Italy for its fruit and leafy branches. Lemon oil / Lemon oil (distilled, rectified) / Petitgrain lemon oil
- Citrus × paradisi Macfad.: The grapefruit tree, of Malay origin, cultivated in Brazil and Israel for its fruit’s essential oil. Grapefruit oil / Grapefruit flower oil / Grapefruit oil expressed
- Citrus sinensis L.: The sweet orange tree, widely cultivated in Brazil and California, is the most used citrus in perfumery. Orange flower absolute (Sweet) / Orange flower concrete (Sweet) / Orange flower SFE (Sweet) / Orange cold pressed (Sweet)
- Citrus reticulata Blanco: The mandarin tree, especially cultivated in Italy for its fruit and petitgrain (leaf oil). Mandarin oil (red) / Mandarin oil (yellow) / Mandarin oil (green) / Petitgrain mandarin oil. Its hybrid with sweet orange gave rise to the clementine (Clementine oil).
- Citrus medica L.: The citron tree, grown in Sicily. Citron oil.
Extractions & Uses
Extraction process :
The lemon tree is a thorny shrub, 3 to 8 meters tall, with evergreen leaves and white flowers. As for the petitgrain bigarade, the leaves of the tree concentrate a fragrant principle that can be extracted by steam distillation.
Harvest is usually done between November and May, when the foliage of the tree is the densest. The leaves are cut manually, stored in a large container and taken to the factory. There, the leaves are dried in the sun for a few hours. Then, they are put in the extractor to be hydro-distilled.
Water vapor drags the fragrant molecules to a refrigerant and the essential oil is collected at the end of the process, by decantation of the water.
The fruit of the lemon tree gives an essential oil by extracting the zest of the fruit under cold expression, Lemon EO.
Uses in perfumery :
Useful in citrus or fruity notes for a fresh touch.
Stability :
Limonene tends to convert into Carvone through time, and to give a minthy note to the oil
The terpenes identified in this raw material can polymerize when they are oxidized
Citral contained in the essential oil can convert into diethylacetals in stability tests, without modifying the raw material’s smell
Major Components :
- D-Limonene (30 - 42%)
- Citral (25-30%)
- Beta-Pinene (12 - 21%)
- Linalyl acetate (≈5%)
- Geranial (4 - 15%)
- Neral (3 - 11%)
- Sabinene (2 - 4,5%)
- Neryl acetate (1,5 - 7%)
- (E)-Beta-ocimene (1,5 - 3%)
- Geranyl acetate (1 - 4%)
- Alpha-pinene (1 - 2%)
- Linalool (0,2 - 3,5%)
Photo credits: ScenTree SAS
Other comments :
Citrus currently suffer from a disease called ''citrus greening ''. This disease is deadly for citrus fruits and no treatment exists. It is transmitted by a vector insect that attacks young shoots: the psylla. This results in the premature death of many trees and therefore the decline in the general production of the essential oil and its quality (reduction of the D-Limonene level).
Regulations & IFRA
Allergens :
D-Limonene - Geraniol - Citral - Linalool
IFRA 51th :
This ingredient is restricted by the 51th amendment
Annexe I :
Some regulated synthetic ingredients are found in nature and in certain proportions in natural ingredients. This presence in nature has to be taken into account when calculating limits of use recommended by the IFRA. In case you do not know these concentrations, you can use the ones estimated by the IFRA. Here they are :
| List of regulated compounds contained in this ingredient | ||
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| Regulated ingredient name | CAS N° | Estimated Concentration |
| Citronellyl acetate | 150-84-5 | 0,2 |
| Citral | 5392-40-5 | 23 |
| Citronellal | 106-23-0 | 1 |
| Geraniol | 106-24-1 | 2 |
| (E) 3,7-Dimethyl-3,6-octadienal (iso-Geranial) | 72203-98-6 | 0,5 |
| (Z) 3,7-Dimethyl-3,6-octadienal (iso-Neral) | 72203-97-5 | 0,2 |
