Extraction of petrichor and essential oils for the production of Novelty fragrance products

• Published in: Journal of pharmaceutical sciences and research Vol. 11; no. 6; pp. 2168 - 2173
• Main Authors: Vittal, Aishwarya, Srikanth, B S, Manokaran, Sumathra, Reddy, A H Manjunatha
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cuddalore Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research 01.06.2019
• Subjects: Biosynthesis; Flowers & plants; Oils & fats; Parks & recreation areas; Perfumes; Smell; Solvents
• ISSN: 0975-1459

The objective of this project is to exploit that nostalgia factor of humans and produce a fragrance product that will contain this smell of rain by incorporating the extraction of Geosmin, the compound responsible for the muddy smell and incorporating various other components into this perfume to make it a pleasant yet nostalgic product that can be efficiently extracted and enter the fragrance market. Distillation was done to get a blend of essential oils. * To remove the aqueous layer, liquid - liquid separation was carried out. * As the quantity of oil is very low, removal of the oil from the water was done using centrifugation at 4000RPM for 2 mins. * The oil layer was carefully transferred into an epindroff tube with a micro pipette. * .75 ml of Jojoba oil and .25ml of sandalwood oil was added to the extract to get the final product. [...]the species of these beautiful and slowgrowing trees have been overharvested greatly in the past century leading to the decrease of the occurance of these trees in nature. 9. The essential oils were exctacted from the key ingredients of the perfume by the process of steam distillation. Since the amount of oil that could be extracted from a large amount of sample was very less, we carried out the combined steam distillation of all the products and were able to collect a good amount of essential oils.