In short
Sharp, green, bruised lime with cucumber and basil over clean vetiver and musk.
Concept
A lime crushed in the hand together with a basil leaf and a slice of cucumber. Bruised peel, green sap and a wet mineral coolness — the waxy, coriander-leaf facets of the decenals make the lime feel just cut.
- Family. Citrus — Green citrus, vegetal
- Main accords. Bruised lime, Basil leaf, Cucumber, Wet mineral
- Intended for. Gender-neutral, Experimental, Summer, Young adult
- Season and occasion. Summer
- Collection. RUŌOD House Originals
How it develops
- Opening. Distilled and expressed lime with trans-2-decenal, trans-2-dodecenal, lemongrass and lemon eucalyptus.
- Heart. Basil, spearmint, nonadienal, cis-6-nonenol, violet leaf and leafy hexenols over a wet maritima-calone stone.
- Base. Vetikol acetate, Verdox, verdyl acetate, Timbersilk and Georgywood with Romandolide, Zenolide and Helvetolide.
Ingredients
Quantities are parts by weight of a 1,000-part fragrance concentrate — the weight put on the balance. Where a dilution is given, the line is weighed as that solution in dipropylene glycol, and its share is of the weighed amount.
| Material | Quantity | Dilution | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lime Oil (Distilled)As written: Distilled lime oil | 100.00 | — | 10.00% |
| Romandolide | 70.00 | — | 7.00% |
| Dihydromyrcenol | 60.00 | — | 6.00% |
| Hedione | 60.00 | — | 6.00% |
| Timbersilk | 53.00 | — | 5.30% |
| Helvetolide | 40.00 | — | 4.00% |
| Hexyl Salicylate | 40.00 | — | 4.00% |
| cis-3-Hexenyl Salicylate | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| Ethyl Linalool | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| Florol | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| Georgywood | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| Myrcenol | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| Petitgrain Bigarade Oil | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| Verdox | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| Verdyl Acetate | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| Vetikol Acetate | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| Zenolide | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| Amber Xtreme | 20.00 | — | 2.00% |
| cis-3-HexenolAs written: cis-3-Hexenol 10% DPG | 20.00 | 10% in DPG | 2.00% |
| Lime Oil (Expressed)As written: Lime essential oil | 20.00 | — | 2.00% |
| MaritimaAs written: Maritima 10% DPG | 20.00 | 10% in DPG | 2.00% |
| trans-2-HexenolAs written: trans-2-Hexenol 10% DPG | 20.00 | 10% in DPG | 2.00% |
| CaloneAs written: Calone 1% DPG | 15.00 | 1% in DPG | 1.50% |
| gamma-Terpinene | 15.00 | — | 1.50% |
| Leaf AcetalAs written: Leaf Acetal 10% DPG | 15.00 | 10% in DPG | 1.50% |
| Terpinolene | 15.00 | — | 1.50% |
| trans-2-DecenalAs written: trans-2-Decenal 1% DPG | 15.00 | 1% in DPG | 1.50% |
| Violet Leaf AbsoluteAs written: Violet Leaf Absolute 10% DPG | 15.00 | 10% in DPG | 1.50% |
| Cardamom Oil | 10.00 | — | 1.00% |
| cis-6-NonenolAs written: cis-6-Nonenol 1% DPG | 10.00 | 1% in DPG | 1.00% |
| Ginger CO2 Extract | 10.00 | — | 1.00% |
| Lemon Eucalyptus Oil | 10.00 | — | 1.00% |
| Lemongrass Oil | 10.00 | — | 1.00% |
| 2,6-NonadienalAs written: 2,6-Nonadienal 1% DPG | 10.00 | 1% in DPG | 1.00% |
| trans-2-DodecenalAs written: trans-2-Dodecenal 1% DPG | 10.00 | 1% in DPG | 1.00% |
| Spearmint Oil | 8.00 | — | 0.80% |
| Basil Oil | 6.00 | — | 0.60% |
| Stemone | 3.00 | — | 0.30% |
| Total | 1000.00 parts | 100.00% |
Every material links to its page in the Material Encyclopedia.
Composition notes
- Key materials. Lime Oil (Distilled), Romandolide, Dihydromyrcenol, Hedione, trans-2-Decenal
- What makes it distinctive. Lime treated as a crushed, vegetal thing — leaf, sap, cucumber — rather than as a cocktail garnish.
- Character. Bracing, original and very refreshing.
- Concentration. 10%
Safety and compliance
- Status. Regulatory assessment pending. No formula-level safety assessment is documented yet, so this page does not say the formula is compliant for any use.
- IFRA Standards. The IFRA Standards Library covers 2 of its materials: Hexyl Salicylate (Restriction: Hexyl salicylate, Amendment 49); Lime Oil (Expressed) (Restriction: Lime oil expressed, Amendment 49).
- Phototoxicity. Lime Oil (Expressed) is phototoxic; IFRA limits phototoxic materials in products left on skin exposed to sunlight.
- Skin sensitisation. None of the EU’s long-standing named fragrance allergens is an ingredient in its own right. Natural materials carry further allergens as constituents, declared from the supplier’s data, and Regulation (EU) 2023/1545 extends the list to be labelled on products placed on the EU market from 31 July 2026.
- Product category. Limits depend on the product: fine fragrance, leave-on and rinse-off products have different IFRA categories, and each Standard sets its own figure for each.
Related formulas and accords
Source and attribution
RUŌOD House Original — an original composition by RUŌOD House. Published as the house’s own work, as attested by the owner of RUOOD Lab on 26 October 2026. The name is the collection’s own and has not been through a trademark search; it needs a formal clearance before any commercial use.
Reuse. Under the permission it is published with, you may read it here, study it, modify it for your own experiments, import it into RUŌOD Lab. Conditions: Keep the attribution “RUŌOD House”. Regulatory assessment pending: check each formula against the current IFRA Standards and the rules for the product and market before use on skin or in a product. Anything else needs the rights holder's own permission.
Import readiness
Every ingredient resolves to a material in the RUŌOD Material Library, with its dilution as printed or as supplied, so this formula can be imported faithfully.
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