Lemongrass essential oil
Cymbopogon citratus
Sả chanh · Poaceae
Lemon, but dry lemon, without any of the juiciness of the peel. Under the lemon is the smell of freshly cut grass, and a thread of something slightly soapy runs from start to finish.
That thread is what pulls lemongrass towards the green family rather than citrus, even though its name and your first impression both say the opposite. It also lasts much longer than peel: lemon peel fades in half an hour, while lemongrass stays far longer before it softens.
Anyone who has bruised a stalk of lemongrass for cooking knows the moment the smell bursts out where it was crushed. The essential oil is that moment kept and concentrated — and for the same reason it loses the freshness of a stalk just snapped.
- Plant part
- Leaves
- Vietnamese name
- Sả chanh
- 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 Lemongrass
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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: Poaceae East Indian lemongrass · Haitian vetiver · Java citronella · Palmarosa
Also from the leaves Douglas fir · East Indian lemongrass · Java citronella · Palmarosa · Petitgrain · Sitka spruce · Tea tree · Thuja
Same method: direct steam distillation Cinnamon leaf · Hemlock spruce · Java citronella · Juniper berry · Palmarosa · Spikenard · Sweet fennel · Thuja