Java citronella essential oil
Cymbopogon winterianus
Sả java · Poaceae
Lemon, lighter than lemongrass, and behind it a floral sweetness lemongrass does not have. It evaporates more slowly and leaves a slightly waxy tail.
The difference lies in the ratio of citronellal to geraniol: one genus, two species, two formulas. Put the two bottles side by side and you hear it at once; smell one alone and it is very easy to name it wrongly.
This is the most widely distilled lemongrass-type oil in Vietnam, and the one most often lumped together as plain “tinh dầu sả” on labels. Two bottles both labelled sả can therefore be two different species, and the botanical name is the only place that says which one you are holding.
- Plant part
- Leaves
- Vietnamese name
- Sả java
- Scent family
- Green
- Plant family
- Poaceae
- Lots published
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Published lots
No lots yet. When the first lot arrives, its GC/MS analysis will be published here — unedited, with the lot number printed on the bottle label.
Buy Java citronella
This oil is in the catalogue but no lot has been brought in, so it is not on sale yet. Message us if you need it — what we stock next depends on what buyers ask for.
Elsewhere in the catalogue
No lot of this oil yet. The oils below are close to it botanically or in how they are extracted — some of them already have lots.
Same plant family: Poaceae East Indian lemongrass · Haitian vetiver · Lemongrass · Vetiver
Also from the leaves Black spruce · Douglas fir · Fragonia · Lolot pepper leaf · Perilla · Ponderosa pine · Scots pine · Thuja
Same method: direct steam distillation Bergamot mint · Carrot seed · Douglas fir · Mastic · Neroli · Ponderosa pine · Sweet fennel · Thuja