
Mock orange is Philadelphus, a genus of about 60 species of shrubs with white flowers. In wild species the flowers smell of orange flowers and jasmine.
- Type
- Sirovina
- Olfactive family
- Cvetni
- Source
- flowers
- Chemical class
- complex natural (essential oil)
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Teroar i poreklo
Detaljno
Zanimljivosti
Philadelphus is named after Ptolemy II Philadelphus, who ruled the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 284 to 246 BC. The specific epithet coronarius means "used for garlands".
Dobijanje i hemija
Način dobijanja
The essential oil is nowadays usually synthesized. Hydrodistillates and hexane extracts of dried and fresh flowers of P. coronarius have been analysed by GC-MS. Hydrodistillation of dried flowers gives an oil with 50.04 % terpenoids, and hydrodistillation of fresh flowers one with 45.13 %. The hexane extract of dried flowers contains only 14.63 % terpenoids, against 52.55 % in the extract of fresh flowers. The extract used in cosmetics is made from the flowers.
- Formula
- Complex natural mixture (key constituents: (1R)-(-)-myrtenal; myrtanal; pentadecanal; tricosane; (Z)-jasmone)
- CAS
- 94279-93-3
- Botanički naziv
- Philadelphus coronarius
- Izgled
- White, bowl-shaped flowers with four petals and prominent stamens
- Sinonimi
- Sweet mock orange, English dogwood, Pipe bush, Syringa
No IFRA Standard for the material itself (51st Amendment)
U parfemima
The blossom of mock orange, said to resemble the smell of orange blossoms, has been used in modern perfumery. One suggested present-day use is as potpourri.