By steam distillation of the crushed or comminuted peels, This juice will separate into three layers during a 2 to 4 week storage period in wooden tanks. The middle laver is lime juice and will usually be concentrated and canned. Distilled Lime Oil is a pale yellow or almost water white mobile liquid of sharp, fresh, terpenelike, somewhat perfumey fruity citrus type odor. The oil is very volatile, but shows increasing sweetness on drying out, the notes becoming more orange like, less lemon like. In perfumes, the Expressed Lime Oil is often preferred since the terpene note of the distilled oil is a note rarely wanted in perfumery.