Essential oils · Citrus family
Lemon essential oil
Citrus limon
Chanh vàng · Rutaceae
Bright, sour, clean, with a lemon-drop note in the middle. Lighter than the Vietnamese lime and with less of a green edge.
As with orange, most of the bottle is limonene, and what makes it “lemon” is citral, which is only a few percent. The more citral, the closer it smells to the real fruit, and it is also the first thing lost as the oil ages.
That is why lemon shows its age faster than any other oil. A fresh bottle is pointed and clear; an old one drifts towards turpentine and a hint of paint. Once you smell that paint note, the oil has oxidised, however far away the date on the label.
- Plant part
- Fruit peel
- Method
- Cold pressing
- Vietnamese name
- Chanh vàng
- Scent family
- Citrus
- Plant family
- Rutaceae
- 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 Lemon
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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: Rutaceae Grapefruit · Kaffir lime leaf · Lime peel · Neroli · Petitgrain · Pomelo blossom · Red mandarin
Also from the fruit peel Bergamot · Lime peel · Mandarin peel · Orange peel · Pomelo peel · Red mandarin
Same method: cold pressing Bergamot · Lime peel · Mandarin peel · Orange peel · Pomelo peel · Red mandarin