Limediene ™ 1% Dilution

• 👃🏼 Analysis: Strong smell of diesel, truffle, and melted plastic. Truffle again. Very intense but had very little hold. Assumed low molecular weight. Impeccable top note. A low molecular weight ( 94.15 ) is confirmed ( Fulvio Ciccolo, 2022 ).

• 👃🏼 Odor Description: A powerful lemon-lime top note, drying down to an exquisite white truffle.

• ⚗️ Fragrance Use: A unique combination of lemon-lime, tropical, marine, and watery notes. Excellent top note in imparting freshness and boosting green floral notes. Great in cool water types.

• 📐 Recommended Fragrance Use Level: Traces - 1%

• 📈 Odor Strength — Very High Impact, Extremely poor tenacity < 10 mins

• 👅 Taste Description: Distilled lime, and sulfur with top notes of citrus and garlic.

• 👅 Flavor Use: Adds a top note of lime and to citrus applications, tropical fruits, garlic, and wasabi.

• 🔎 IFRA Status: This product contains 0.3% Toluene as an unavoidable production-related impurity. The following applies to Toluene in fragrance compounds/mixtures: The level of Toluene has to be kept as low as practicable and should never exceed 100 ppm in the fragrance compound/mixture or fragrance oil.

What is Limediene?

Short-lived but highly impactful with effects seen as low as 0.01%.

BRI DATA 💾

• BRI Product Number: 962

• BRI Product Name: LIMEDIENE ™

• CAS Number: 30640-46-1

• FEMA Number: 4311

• EU FLAVIS Number: Not approved

• Molecular Weight: 94.15

• Molecular Formula: C7H10 

SYNONYMS

• Methyl cyclohexadiene

• Limediene (LIMEDIENE IS A TRADEMARK OF BEDOUKIAN RESEARCH)

• Lemon Hexadiene

• Methyl Cyclohexadiene

• Mixture of methyl cyclohexadiene and methylene cyclohexene

SPECIFICATIONS

• Minimum Purity: 98%

• Appearance: Colorless to pale yellow liquid

• Refractive index: 1.474 ; 1.484 @ 20 ºC

• Specific Gravity: 0.830 : 0.837 @ 25 ºC

• Additives: synthetic alpha tocopherol @ 0.10%

• Flash Point: 35 deg F (CC)

• Boiling Point (approx): 117.82 C (EPI 4.0)

• Solubility: Insoluble in water.

• Log P: 3.29

• Kosher: yes

• Halal: Yes

• Regulatory Status: TSCA AICS CHINA DSL EINECS(250-269-5) PROP_65

• RIFM Monograph: Yes

• Natural: No

• Natura Identical: Yes

• Export Tariff Code: 2902.19.0000

• Export as Dangerous Good: Yes

Note: Not for use in Tobacco or Nicotine delivery device applications and/or products

Sources and Informations

• Fulvio Ciccolo, Scentspiracy 2022

• Bedoukian Research Inc

• Odor Sample from Bedoukian