This grapefruit essential oil comes directly from our trees and is rapidly extracted from the fresh peel only, not from crushed fruit. It is a mixture of approximately 50% Duncan (white) and 50% Ruby Star (red) grapefruits. The scent is very bright and refreshing, it has a tangy crisp, clean finish with an underlying sweetness, akin to savoring the juiciest grapefruit at its peak ripeness in the orchards.
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The main constituents of grapefruit essential oil are well known, limonene (90%), β-myrcene (3%) and nootkatone (2%) but also β-pinene (13.3%), sabinene (2.2%) and α-pinene (2.1%).