Oriental fragrances

Famesol is manufactured from nerohdol by isomerization over a vanadium catalyst (55). Famesol occurs in several essential oils, such as ambrette seed, neroh, rose, cyclamen, and jasmine it is also used in floral and oriental fragrances. 

In some cases, especially when the family is directed more toward Oriental fragrances, the use of vanillin can be up to 5%. These types of perfumes include Spanish fougnre, sweet or fmity chypres, woody Oriental, or spicy Oriental notes. AH the perfumes based on the sweet, warm, and powdery impressions brought by vanillin belong to the great family of the Oriental notes and of the amber notes. Vanillin, when used together with coumarin and nitro-musks, can have a concentration of up to 10%. 

USE In perfume formulations to impart a lasting oriental fragrance, in incense, soaps, cosmetics. To scent fine Indian fabrics and shawls. 

Uses Fragrance in cosmetics modifier for muguet and oriental fragrances... 

Sandalwood Oil, East Indian. The use of sandalwood oil for its perfumery value is ancient, probably extending back some 4000 years. Oil from the powdered wood and roots of the tree Santalum album L. is produced primarily in India, under government control. Good quaUty oil is a pale yellow to yellow viscous Hquid characterized by an extremely soft, sweet—woody, almost ariimal—balsarnic odor. The extreme tenacity of the aroma makes it an ideal blender—fixative for woody-Oriental—floral fragrance bases. It also finds extensive use for the codistillation of other essential oils, such as rose, especially in India. There the so-called attars are made with sandalwood oil distilled over the flowers or by distillation of these flowers into sandalwood oil. The principal constituents of sandalwood oil are shown in Table 11 (37) and Figure 2. 

Uses. Cinnamyl alcohol and its esters, especially cinnamyl acetate, are widely employed in perfumery because of their excellent sensory and fixative properties. They are frequently used in blossom compositions such as lilac, jasmine, lily of the valley, hyacinth, and gardenia to impart balsamic and oriental notes to the fragrance. In addition, they ate utilized as modifiers in berry, nut, and spice flavor systems. The value of cinnamyl alcohol has also been mentioned in a variety of appHcations which include the production of photosensitive polymers (49), the creation of inks for multicolor printing (50), the formulation of animal repellent compositions (51), and the development of effective insect attractants (52). 

Chemical signals are indispensable for the survival of many organisms which use chemoreceptors to find their way, to hunt for and inspect food, to detect enemies and harmful objects, and to find members of the opposite sex (pheromones). These functions are no longer vitally important for humans. The importance of flavor and fragrance substances in humans has evolved to become quantitatively and qualitatively different from that in other mammals this is because humans depend to a greater extent on acoustic and optical signals for orientation. However, humans have retained the ability to detect odors and human behavior can undoubtedly be affected by fragrances and aromas. 

Veratraldehyde can be prepared by methylation of vanillin. It is used in oriental and warm-woody fragrances, as well as in flavor compositions for vanilla notes. It is an intermediate in, for example, the synthesis of pharmaceuticals. 

Nishida, R., Shelly, T.E. and Kaneshiro, K. Y. (1997). Acquisition of female-attracting fragrance by males of oriental fruit fly from a Hawaiian lei flower, Fagraea berteriana. Journal of Chemical Ecology 23 2275-2285. 

Although the influence of Youth Dew can be seen in Dioressence (1970), it was not until 1977, with the launch of Opium by Yves St. Laurent, that the oriental theme was further developed in a perfume of major importance, which was in turn to provide the inspiration for the creation of a number of subsequent fragrances within the genre. 

But let s get a grip on what we re really talking about here. We ve previously covered a lot of scary territory with the chemicals part of this book. There is an inherent risk when dealing with companies that are exclusively reagent and research chemical oriented. That is not the case with the essential oil and fragrance chemical companies. It is a whole different ball game, bubba ... 

Generally, the dynamics of the flavour and fragrance industry mirror the trend of many industrial sectors the most important representatives of a large number of nationally oriented companies have through mergers, acquisitions and market expansion developed into globally operating multinational enterprises. As a result of this... 

Djinni supports some of the oriental/tropical composition of the fragrance, and has a name which is both familiar yet different a name that is exotic. 

Cumin oil is produced mainly in India, smaller quantities in Egypt and Iran. It is used in very small amounts in green aldehydic fragrance compositions and for flavoring seasonings, pickles, meat sauces etc., esp. of oriental and Asian types. 

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