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Rosewood oil, or bois de rose, is an essential oil extracted from the wood of Aniba rosaeodora and used especially in perfumery. Its fragrance is woody and floral.
- Type
- Sirovina
- Olfactive family
- Drvenasti
- Source
- wood, leaves and branches
- Chemical class
- Essential oil rich in linalool, a monoterpenic alcohol
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Detaljno
Zanimljivosti
The wood of Aniba rosaeodora was greatly overused in the past and is now as difficult to legally trade as elephant ivory. Because of the remoteness and difficulty of travel in the Amazon, distilleries are often mobile, movable by raft.
Dobijanje i hemija
Način dobijanja
In the wild harvest, the trees are felled and cut into logs one meter long, which are stockpiled at the riverbank. When river levels are high enough, the logs are floated downriver to a distillery. At the distillery, the wood is chipped and then steam distilled. Each tree yields about 1% oil by weight of wood. Old chips are used as fuel to run the distilleries. The oil, which in the past was extracted from the trunk requiring the felling of the tree, is now extracted from the leaves and branches. Hydrodistillation of dried leaves and thin branches gave an oil yield of 2.8%.
- Botanički naziv
- Aniba rosaeodora
- Izgled
- Colorless to pale yellow liquid
- Sinonimi
- Rosewood oil, bois de rose
No IFRA Standard for the material itself (51st Amendment)
- Indeks prelamanja
- 1.459 (leaf and thin-branch oil)
U parfemima
The perfume and cosmetics industries demand rosewood oil highly for its unique aroma. The oil is rich in linalool, a compound with fixative power. Oil adulteration is the industry's highest concern. Adulteration may occur by mixing the real oil with other essential oils, natural or synthetic, or by substituting the original plant by other plants during extraction.
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