
Ingredients · Citrus · top note
Lemon verbena absolute
Say itLemon vur-BEE-nuh absolute
Deep green lemon, herbaceous and hay-like, with tea and citrus-peel facets.
- What it is
- Natural absolute from solvent-extracted leaves.
- Where it comes from
- mainly Morocco and France
- When you smell it
- Top notes: the first minutes.
- What perfumers do with it
- The permitted natural verbena: adds rich lemon-herb depth to colognes and green accords at low dose.
- Rules
- Limited. Phototoxic; IFRA caps fine fragrance use near 0.7%
- Also called
- Verbena absolute; Aloysia citrodora (Lippia citriodora)
Not on the label of any of the 232 perfumes read so far.
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