Lemon Berry® Essential Oil

Description

Lemon Berry® Essential Oil

Lemon Berry® essential oil is one of our newest essential oils coming from our Byron hinterland plantation. Its aroma is lemony/citrusy, fruity, with a beautiful sweet berry note. A new refreshing, uplifting and energising aroma to add to your collection of Australian essential oils.

If you like Lemon Myrtle, you will love Lemon Berry!

Lemon Berry® essential oil is not a blend but a 100% pure essential oil from a rare Australian plant. It freshens a home, kitchen or bathroom and can uplift ones spirits or feelings. It fruitiness appeals to men, women and children.

Distilling Lemon Berry® oil at our Byron hinterland plantation

Botanical name:  Leptospermum petersonii Variety ‘B’

Ingredients: 100% v/v pure Lemon Berry® essential oil.

Lemon Berry® Essential Oil Aroma

Refreshing and uplifting fruity, citrusy with beautiful sweet berry notes. Attractive to men, women and children.

Lemon Berry® aroma assessment

Lemon Berry® Essential Oil Benefits

Lemon Berry® essential oil is refreshing, energizing, uplifting, invigorating and relaxing. It helps improve focus and concentration, anti-depressive, pick-me-up, aids happiness.

Remove bad room smells from homes, kitchens, bathrooms, it may help calm noisy children.

Lemon Berry® Essential Oil Uses 

Add a couple of drops of Lemon Berry® essential oil to a diffuser, oil burner, air purifier, air freshener, potpourri, or bath. It’s an excellent oil for cleaning, simply add a couple of drops to a vacuum cloth bag, floor washing water or dishwashing liquid.

Lemon Berry® spent mulch, which will be recycled back into our plantation

MORE INFO

Directions and More Uses

Aromatherapy Oil

Add 2 to 4 drops Lemon Berry® oil in a diffuser, oil burner or banksia cone for a refreshing and energising lemon/fruity/berry aroma.

Blending Lemon Berry® Essential Oil 

Lemon Berry® oil is excellent on its own or try blending with fruity, woody, spicy, eucalyptus or floral oils. Its aroma is quite potent, so use sparingly to avoid overpowering. Try blending Lemon Berry® with Pineapple Myrtle, Mango Myrtle, Rose Myrtle, Australian Rosewood,  Eucalyptus varieties, Australian Sandalwood, Australian Blue Cypress, Niaouli, Fragonia, Rosalina

Main Actives of Lemon Berry® Oil

neral, geranial, cis isocitral, trans isocitral, myrcene, limonene, geraniol, citronellal, para cymene, gamma-terpinene, terpinolene, alpha-thujene.

Precautions

Keep out of reach of children, do not apply direct to the skin as this may cause skin irritation, store away from direct sunlight, store below 30 degrees.

Other Common Names

Lemon scented tea tree, Leptospermum petersonii ‘Variety B’

Natural Occurrence in Australia                                                                                                         

Lemon Berry® trees naturally occurs in only a few hectares of lowland or floodplain country, in northern New South Wales. The tree is rare, and Lemon Berry® grows to a maximum height of 10 metres in the wild. High and regular rainfall with rocky and alluvial soils are its prime habitat.

Characteristics

Clear to amber yellow in colour, watery consistency, scent citrus/lemony/fruity/berry/sweet/zesty.

Lemon Berry® essential oil in our still

Extraction and Farming Method

Lemon Berry® oil is extracted via steam distillation of the leaves and green branchlets. The tree is grown at our plantation in the Byron Bay hinterland, New South Wales. Plantation trees are planted in rows, are kept to a maximum height of 4 metres, they are hand harvested and are then steam distilled immediately to maintain quality Lemon Berry® essential oil.

Lemon Berry® harvesting

History

Traditional Usage

At present there is no evidence of indigenous use of this plant. This may be because the tree is so rare in the wild and the local population of indigenous peoples were forced to move away after European settlement of the area. The large scale clearing of forest very early on for sugar cane and cattle grazing could also have contributed to loss of information on it’s traditional uses.
However it is reasonable to assume the leaves were rubbed on the skin for a perfume effect.

Early European Usage

There is no record of Lemon Berry® oil being produced and sold previously.

Present Day History /Story

Lemon Berry® oil is a new Australian oil pioneered by Essentially Australia, grown and distilled at our Byron hinterland plantation.
In 2015, while looking for rare, native Rose plants, I found an exceptionally fruity, fresh, sweet smooth berry like scented Lemon Tea Tree (Leptospermum petersonii).
I took a sample back to my team and they loved it.

So in late 2015, we started propagating from the the plant. We successfully planted the tree out into our Byron hinterland plantation in December 2016.

In 2022, we conducted a trial distillation which was a success, so in April 2023 we conducted our first commercial distillation.

Lemon Berry® is grown and sold exclusively by Essentially Australia.

Typical Chemical Profile of Lemon Berry® Essential Oil 2023

alpha-thujene             2.5%
myrcene                      1.5%
limonene                     1.7%
para cymene              4.9%
1,8 cineole                  0.7%
gamma-terpinene     9.1%
terpinolene                5.9%
linalool                        3.4%
citronellal                   1.9%
cis-isocitral                1.2%
terpinen-4-ol             2.0%
trans-isocitral            1.7%
geraniol                     2.3%
neral                        22.3%
geranial                   28.4%
germacrene D          0.6%
bicyclogermacrene  0.3%