Lavender oil spike

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This body, CjoHjgO, has been described under several names, the best known being that now usually adopted, viz. cineol also cajuputol (from its occurrence in oil of cajuput) and eucalyptol (from its occurrence in oil of eucalyptus). It is found in nature in very large quantities in the above-mentioned oils, as well as in many others, notably wormseed, lavender (English), and spike-lavender oils. It results also by the... 

Spanish spike lavender oil is produced by steam distillation of the flowering tops of spike, Lavandula latifolia Medik. It is an almost colorless to pale greenish-yellow liquid with a characteristic, rough odor slightly like cineole and camphor. 

Spike Lavender Oil occurs as a pale yellow to yellow liquid with a camphoraceous, lavender odor. It is the volatile oil obtained by steam distillation from the flowers of Lavandula latifolia, Vill. (Lavandula spica, D.C.) (Fam. Labiatae). It is soluble in most fixed oils and in propylene glycol. It is slightly soluble in glycerin and in mineral oil. 

The main components of Spanish spike lavender oil are linalool (34-50%), 1,8-cineole (16-39%), and camphor (8-16%) [585-591c]. 

B Lavandin (2), Barrfime (3), French Mt. Blanc (4) and lavender oil (6) are qualitatively alike in the main zones, with quantitative differences in the amount of linalyl acetate, linalool, cineole and epoxidihydrocaryophyllene at R, 0.5-0.55 characteristic red-violet zone in the commercial oil samples 2-6. Spike lavender oil (5) has an almo.st equal linalool and dneol content. Linalyl acetate is absent. 

Spike-lavender oil. Colorless to yellowish-green oil with a fresh, herby-camphor, lavender-like odor. Production By steam distillation of the flowering herbage of spike lavender, Lavandula latifolia mainly growing wild on the Iberian peninsula. Main producing country is Spain, 150-2()0 t/a. 

Spearmint oil, terpeneless Spike lavender oil, natural Storax, U.S.P. 

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Spike lavender oil Spicae aetheroleum Lavandula latifolia Medik. 

This oil, known as spike lavender oil, is a commercial article of considerable importance, and is used very largely in cheap perfumery. Its odour is camphoraceous, and far less pleasant than tlttt of true lavender oil. Lavandula spica flourishes, generally speaking, in the same districts as Lavandula vera, and grows to a very large extent and very freely in Spain. The yield of oil from the flowers varies from 0 5 to I O per cent. 

The most important feature of spike oil from the perfumer s point ol view, is the amount of free alcohols contained therein, which is usually returned as borneol (calculated from the acetylation results). This will, in genuine spike oils, rarely be less than 30 per cent. Spanish spike oils frequently show rather less than this—28 to 29 per cent., but it is probable that this is due to the fact that other Labiate flowors grow in close proximity with the lavender flowers, and are to some extent distilled with them, without any intention of fraud, but because it is in practice impossible to separate them. Umney has recorded the analyses of about a hundred samples of spike lavender oils, with a boraecJ value varying from about 23 to 41 per cent. Any sample with less than 28 per cent, should be viewed with suspicion, and samples containing much less than this are undoubtedly adulterate. 

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