Jasmine Constituents:Jasmone, benzyl acetate, linalool, linalyl acetate, benzyl alcohol
Jasmine Oil Description
Jasmine is a very powerful fragrance with a full, rich, honey-like sweetness. Great expense goes into producing pure jasmine oil. The pinwheel-shaped, dainty, white flowers grow in clusters on the woody stalks of the shrub, and yield a surprisingly dark, viscous oil. For each ounce of oil to be extracted, forty pounds of flowers must be picked -- before dawn, when jasmine is at its aromatic peak. The flowers are too delicate to be put through the distillation process used for most essential oil extractions. Instead, special methods are used to obtain the absolute -- which is more concentrated than essential oils.
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