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Specifications:
Description:
Palmarosa oil is steam distilled or water distilled mainly from wild growing,
fresh or dried
grass of the plant cymbopogon martini, varietas motia. The grass grows wild in
India, particularly
northeast of Bombay toward the himalaya mountains, Nepal and to a lesser extent,
in Pakistan.
The grass has been planted in the seychelle islands and in the comoro islands in
the Indian Ocean.
Palmarosa oil is a pale yellow or pale olive liquid with a sweet, floral rosy
odor and various backnotes
or topnotes according to the quality and age of the oil. Palmarosa oil blends
well with all the conventional
soap perfume materials and it forms an excellent base with small amounts of
geranium oil and oakmoss
concrete or absolute. Combinations with cananga oil, bois de rose oil, amyris
oil, guaiacwood oil make
good bases for soap perfumes. The name geranium palmarosa is a carryover from
the days when palmarosa
oil was used as an adulterant for turkish rose oil and was imported into Turkey
for that purpose as geranium
palmarosa
