Re: Steam distilled jasmine?

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Hi

Is an essential oil of jasmine grandiflorum ever available? It was my

understanding that it was not only uneconomical but also impractical to steam

distill jasmine but I have just seen a highly reliable supplier offering a

jasmine essential oil (at a price 50% more than the price of jasmine absolute).

Any advise that you can offer would be most appreciated... as would a

comparision in the aroma of the essential oil in comparision to an absolute.

Thanks

I've seen that too and wondered the same thing!

[Guest guest]

> I don't know if this will help, however Eden has a couple of jasmin co2/s. I

received

2 different samples and they smell heavenly,

-Kristie

[Guest guest]

Is an essential oil of jasmine grandiflorum ever available? It was my

understanding that it was not only uneconomical but also impractical to

steam distill jasmine but I have just seen a highly reliable supplier

offering a jasmine essential oil (at a price 50% more than the price of

jasmine absolute). Any advise that you can offer would be most

appreciated... as would a comparision in the aroma of the essential oil in

comparision to an absolute.

Hi :

It is my understanding that jasmine cannot withstand the process of steam

distilling. Evidently, the heat destroys the delicate fragrance, so

enfleurage or more recently, solvent extraction is used instead.

Cat

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I just saw that too! Would love to hear from those that have sampled it.

Also where did we see it? I've been on every supplier sight preparing and

order and can't remember which one it was on.

What's it like folks?

 

White Lotus has it. I haven't sampled it. I was thinking about trying it, but

they have a 10 sample maximum, and I  want to sample other things. I'm also

quite happy with the jasmine absolutes and concretes I have.

[Guest guest]

>

> Is an essential oil of jasmine grandiflorum ever available? It was my

> understanding that it was not only uneconomical but also impractical to

> steam distill jasmine but I have just seen a highly reliable supplier

> offering a jasmine essential oil (at a price 50% more than the price of

> jasmine absolute). Any advise that you can offer would be most

> appreciated... as would a comparision in the aroma of the essential oil in

> comparision to an absolute.

>

> Hi :

> It is my understanding that jasmine cannot withstand the process of steam

> distilling. Evidently, the heat destroys the delicate fragrance, so

> enfleurage or more recently, solvent extraction is used instead.

> Cat

>

Hi Folks.....

Catzilla....Love the Name, BTW....<G>....!

This has always been my understanding, over the years...I do have some

of Wilde's 'oil' extraction, but that was a flourocarbon type

solvent extraction...Still exquisite to this day...But that was not a

distillation, or what one could call an EO, by any means...

Other than that, or a codistill as comes from India occasionally, with

Sandalwood, the delicate but potent entity of Jasmine, has come through

to us, either enfleurage, or the absolute solvent extraction model

*only*, at least, commercially......

BTW, an oft overlooked source of the Heaven of Jasmine, is the Fragrant

Wax, a byproduct of the absolute process...If you want to get even

closer, investigate the Concrete.....

If you are a Jasmine fan, you will not be disappointed, with either...

I am listening....A Jasmine EO...I consider Jasmine as *THE* Prince of

*ALL* essences....In the past, I have oft given friends a portion of

Jasmine Fragrant Wax, as a gift to be applied in close encounters, of

the most intimate kind...<G>.....!

Tech does move things along, though......So.......

--

W. Bourbonais

L'Hermite Aromatique

A.J.P. (GIA)

[Guest guest]

Thanks to everyone for responding... guess I might have to get a sample next

time I place an order. I have since come across the following refereence in the

Enclyclopedia of Essential Oils by Lawless ... " A concrete is produced by

solvent extraction: and absolute is produced by seperation in alchohol " ... as

you'd expect... but then " An essential oil is produced by steam distillation of

the absolute " .

I'm no expert in these things but there often seems to be a more obvious solvent

aroma to jasmine absolutes than most other absolutes (I have a Jasmine sambac

CO2 which I find much cleaner and more ethereal than any absolute I have smelt).

I am curious as to how much of what I (perhaps mistakenly) imagine to be residue

would be left behind if this essential oil is somehow refined from an absolute.

Unfortunately I have never had a chance to experience the concrete/wax... though

I hear that they offer the truest aroma?

Anyway, thanks again Cat, , Z. Boudreaux,