Breza

Birch covers two materials: sweet birch oil from Betula lenta, and birch bark tar, a substance derived from birch tree bark. Sweet birch oil smells sweet, aromatic, spicy and herbal, with a phenolic nuance.
- Type
- Sirovina
- Olfactive family
- Aromatični
- Source
- bark
Miris
Molekul: proizvođači i varijante
Detaljno
Zanimljivosti
Black birch was once harvested extensively to produce oil of wintergreen, and the tree was borderline endangered until synthetic oil of wintergreen appeared in the 1950s–60s. A 5,000-year-old piece of chewing gum made from birch bark tar, still bearing tooth imprints, was found in Kierikki, Finland. A different chewing gum sample, 5,700 years old and found in southern Denmark, yielded a complete human genome and oral microbiome.
Dobijanje i hemija
Način dobijanja
In the past, methyl salicylate was commonly distilled from the twigs of Betula lenta (sweet birch) and Gaultheria procumbens (eastern teaberry or wintergreen). Commercial methyl salicylate is now synthesized. Methyl salicylate can be produced by esterifying salicylic acid with methanol. Birch bark tar is synthesized by dry distillation of birch tree bark. In the single-pot method, the birch bark is heated under airtight conditions, and the final product consists of tar and the ashes of the bark.
- Formula
- Complex natural mixture (key constituents: methyl salicylate C₈H₈O₃; betulin; lupeol)
- CAS
- 68917-50-0 (sweet birch oil); 8001-88-5 (birch tar oil)
- Botanički naziv
- Betula lenta
- Izgled
- Colorless to pale yellow clear liquid (sweet birch oil)
- Jačina mirisa
- Vrlo jak (metil-salicilat)
- Trajnost
- Excellent (methyl salicylate)
- Sinonimi
- Sweet birch, black birch, cherry birch, mahogany birch, spice birch
IFRA Standard « Birch wood pyrolysate » (Amendment 47)
- Tačka ključanja
- 222.6 °C (methyl salicylate)
- Tačka paljenja
- 96 °C (methyl salicylate)
- Relativna gustina
- 1.14100 to 1.19100 @ 25.00 °C (sweet birch oil)
- Indeks prelamanja
- 1.50700 to 1.54700 @ 20.00 °C (sweet birch oil)
U parfemima
Methyl salicylate is produced synthetically and used as a fragrance and as a flavoring agent. It is used in low concentrations (0.04% and under) as a flavoring agent in root beer, chewing gum, mints and medicine. Birch bark tar is a specialty fragrance material, used as a base note especially in fragrances of the leather and tobacco genre. To a lesser extent it is used in Chypres, especially Cuir de Russie perfumes and fragrance bases, typically together with castoreum and isobutyl quinoline. Birch bark tar is also used as an ingredient in some soaps, although other tars with an equally phenolic and smoky odor, such as pine and coal tar, are more commonly used in soaps as a medicating agent.