Essential Oils and their identifiers Flashcards
To learn the main indicators for different essential oils in fragrances
What are the three types of Geranium?
Geranium Egypt, Geranium China, Geranium Bourbon
What essential oil contains the most Citronellyl Tiglate and Geranyl Tiglate?
Geranium China
What essential oil contains the most 10-epi-gamma-eudesmol?
Geranium Egypt
What essential oil(s) contains a significant amount of 6,9-guaiadiene?
Geranium China and Geranium Bourbon
What essential oil of the geraniums has the lowest amount of geraniol and geranyl formate?
Geranium China
What essential oils have the following ratios of citronellyl formate to geranyl formate?
a) 5:1
b) 3:1
c) 3:2
a) Geranium China
b) Geranium Egypt
c) Geranium Bourbon
What essential oil contains the most Eudesmol?
Geranium Egypt
menthone : isomenthone are present in what two essential oils?
Peppermint and Geranium
What makes Geranium different from Peppermint?
Geranium has more isomenthone than menthone, and Peppermint has more menthone than isomenthone.
What essential oil has camphene, eucalyptol, and camphor at high levels?
Rosemary Morocco
What essential oil contains the most terpinyl acetate and eucalyptol?
Cardamon Guatemala
What oil has a 2:1 ratio of eucalyptol to camphor?
Rosemary Morocco
What essential oil contains the most calamenene and delta-cadinene?
Cade oil and “Birch Tar”
What essential oil is primarily made up of guaiol and bulnesol?
Guaiacwood Paraguay
What essential oil has guaiyl acetate and bulnesyl acetate in it?
Guaiacwood acetate
What essential oil has an alpha-cedrene:thujopsene ratio of approximately 1:2?
Cedarwood Texas
What essential oil has an alpha-cedrene:thujopsene ratio of approximately 1:1?
Cedarwood Virginia
What essential oils contain alpha-cedrene, beta-cedrene, thujopsene, and cedrol?
Cedarwood texas, cedarwood virginia
What oils contain eugenol and safrole?
Cinnamon bark, cinnamon leaf
What essential oil has eugenol and methyl eugenol?
Pimento berry
What essential oil contains eugenol, eugenyl acetate, and cinnamyl acetate?
Cinnamon leaf
What essential oil has the most eugenyl acetate?
Clove bud
What essential oil is primarily made up of eugenol and cinnamaldehyde?
Cinnamon bark oil
What essential oils can be identified by the presence of elemol and elemicin?
Elemi Phillippines, Elemi resin, Amyris
What essential oil contains valerianol?
Amyris
What essential oil is primarily made up of elemol and elemicine?
Elemi Phillippines
What essential oul contains the least amount of elemol and elemicine and is mostly benzyl benzoate?
Elemi resin
What essential oil contains alpha thujone, beta thujone, and camphor?
Armoise oil
What essential oil contains B-thujone and sabinyl acetate?
Wormwood
What essential oil contains a-fenchone, a-thujone, and B-thujone?
Cedarleaf oil
What essential oil contains methyl salicylate and methyl isoeugenol?
Tuberose abs India
