Kunzea
Kunzea is the essential oil steam distilled from the leaves and twigs of Kunzea ambigua, white kunzea or tick bush, a Myrtaceae shrub endemic to eastern Australia. Its scent is clean, fresh and invigorating, with a hint of spice.
- Type
- Sirovina
- Olfactive family
- Aromatični
- Source
- branches, leaves and twigs
- Chemical class
- complex natural (essential oil)
Miris
Teroar i prerada
Detaljno
Zanimljivosti
The genus Kunzea honours the German naturalist Gustav Kunze, professor of botany in Leipzig. The species name ambigua comes from the Latin ambiguus, meaning "doubtful" or "uncertain".
Dobijanje i hemija
Način dobijanja
Kunzea oil is steam distilled from the leaves and twigs of Kunzea ambigua. The small, leathery leaves need a long distillation time to give the maximum oil yield. Monoterpenes distil first, with the most rapid oil accumulation at around 30 minutes, but the heavier components need more than 4 hours for complete extraction. Combining the fractions collected from one and a half hours onwards may give an oil with higher ratios of globulol and viridiflorol.
- Formula
- Complex natural mixture (key constituents: α-pinene; 1,8-cineole; viridiflorol; globulol)
- CAS
- 97553-36-1
- Botanički naziv
- Kunzea ambigua
- Izgled
- Colorless to pale yellow clear liquid
- Jačina mirisa
- Srednji
- Sinonimi
- white kunzea, tick bush
No IFRA Standard for the material itself (51st Amendment)
- Tačka paljenja
- 40 °C (104 °F)
- Relativna gustina
- 0.900 to 0.930 at 20 °C
- Indeks prelamanja
- 1.460 to 1.482 at 20 °C
U parfemima
It is described as a top to middle note. In cosmetic ingredient listings its function is given as fragrance.
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