Used as a raw material for synthetic rubber and fragrances, and also as a solvent

The right-handed isomer is often used. It can be used as a raw material for preparing artificial orange blossom, sweet flower, lemon, and bergamot oil. It can also be used as a fresh top note fragrance for cosmetics, soaps, and daily chemical fragrances. It is suitable for cologne type, jasmine type, lavender type in floral fragrance, and pine, aldehyde, woody, fruity, or fresh fragrance types. It is used as a modifier in edible flavors in white lemon, fruity, and spicy formulas.

Dipentene can be used as enamel, lacquer and various oil-containing resins, resin wax, metal driers and solvents; used to make synthetic resins and synthetic rubbers; used to blend orange blossom essence, citrus oil essence, etc.; it can also be made into a substitute for lemon essential oil. Limonene is directional oxidized to produce carvone; in the presence of inorganic acid, limonene reacts with water to produce α-terpineol and hydrated terpene diol; under the action of platinum or color catalysts, it is hydrogenated to produce para-alkane, and dehydrogenated to produce para-cymene. It is also used as oil dispersant, rubber additive, wetting agent, etc.

Used as a solvent, also used in fragrance synthesis and pesticide production