
Ingredients · Citrus · top note
Lemon eucalyptus oil
Fresh, sharp citronella-lemon with a green, slightly rosy, waxy edge.
- What it is
- Natural oil from steam-distilled leaves.
- Where it comes from
- China, Brazil, India
- When you smell it
- Top notes: the first minutes.
- What perfumers do with it
- Cheap lemony-green freshness for household and functional products; natural citronellal source.
- Worth knowing
- PMD, a repellent derived from this oil's citronellal, is one of few plant-based repellents recommended by the US CDC.
- Rules
- Limited. Mostly citronellal; IFRA citronellal limits cap its dose
- Also called
- Eucalyptus citriodora / Corymbia citriodora leaf oil
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