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Ingredients · Citrus · top note
Lime oil, expressed
Tart, green, zesty fresh lime peel; juicy, slightly floral and bitter.
- What it is
- Natural oil from cold-pressed peel of key or Persian limes.
- Where it comes from
- Mexico, Peru, Brazil
- When you smell it
- Top notes: the first minutes.
- What perfumers do with it
- Adds tangy, green sharpness to citrus tops, cocktail-inspired accords and fresh masculines.
- Worth knowing
- Squeezing limes in the sun can burn skin: 'margarita dermatitis' is the same phototoxicity that limits this oil.
- Rules
- Limited. Phototoxic furocoumarins; capped in leave-on skin products
- Also called
- Citrus aurantifolia / C. latifolia peel oil, cold-pressed
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