Ingredients · Citrus · top note
Petitgrain lemon
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Green, lemony and leafy, lightly floral; like lemon peel crossed with crushed leaves.
- What it is
- Natural oil from steam-distilled lemon leaves and twigs.
- Where it comes from
- Italy (Sicily)
- When you smell it
- Top notes: the first minutes.
- What perfumers do with it
- Adds natural lemony-green freshness to colognes and verbena or lemon accords.
- Rules
- Limited. Contains citral, which counts toward IFRA citral limits
- Also called
- Petitgrain citronnier; lemon leaf oil (Citrus limon)
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