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  2. List of essential oils - Wikipedia

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    Also used as a scent in perfumes, cosmetics, soaps, and candles. [5] Caraway seed oil, used a flavoring in foods. Also used in mouthwashes, toothpastes, etc. as a flavoring agent. [6] Cardamom seed oil, used in aromatherapy. Extracted from seeds of subspecies of Zingiberaceae (ginger). Also used as a fragrance in soaps, perfumes, etc.

  3. Attar - Wikipedia

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    The bottles are for aging the perfume (the skin breathes, allowing the water to evaporate while holding in the fragrance and oil, becoming a perfume, or attar). Attar, also known as ittar, is an essential oil derived from botanical or other natural sources. Most commonly these oils are extracted via hydrodistillation or steam distillation.

  4. Sandalwood - Wikipedia

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    Sandalwood is a class of woods from trees in the genus Santalum. The woods are heavy, yellow, and fine-grained, and, unlike many other aromatic woods, they retain their fragrance for decades. Sandalwood oil is extracted from the woods. Sandalwood is often cited as one of the most expensive woods in the world. Both the wood and the oil produce a ...

  5. Myristica fragrans - Wikipedia

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    Myristica fragrans is an evergreen tree, usually 5–15 m (16–49 ft) tall, but occasionally reaching 20 m (66 ft) or even 30 m (98 ft) on Tidore. The alternately arranged leaves are dark green, 5–15 cm (2.0–5.9 in) long by 2–7 cm (0.8–2.8 in) wide with petioles about 1 cm (0.4 in) long.

  6. Linalool - Wikipedia

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    In plants, it is a metabolite, a volatile oil component, an antimicrobial agent, and an aroma compound. [1] Linalool has uses in manufacturing of soaps, fragrances, food additives as flavors, household products, and insecticides. [1] Esters of linalool are referred to as linalyl, e.g. linalyl pyrophosphate, an isomer of geranyl pyrophosphate. [4]

  7. Fragrance oil - Wikipedia

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    Scented candles are produced when fragrance oils are combined with hot wax like paraffin, forming a homogenous solution. [citation needed] Fragrance oils are retained like a sponge when the wax is cooled to room temperature. Lighting the candle wick increases the wax temperature, gradually releasing an aroma through the evaporation of the ...

  8. Types of plant oils - Wikipedia

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    There are three primary types of plant oil, differing both the means of extracting the relevant parts of the plant, and in the nature of the resulting oil: Vegetable fats and oils were historically extracted by putting part of the plant under pressure, squeezing out the oil. Macerated oils consist of a base oil to which parts of plants are ...

  9. Aroma compound - Wikipedia

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    Fragrance bottles. An aroma compound, also known as an odorant, aroma, fragrance or flavoring, is a chemical compound that has a smell or odor. For an individual chemical or class of chemical compounds to impart a smell or fragrance, it must be sufficiently volatile for transmission via the air to the olfactory system in the upper part of the nose.