Plant Species with Essential Oil for Perfume Production
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Cedarwood
Common name: cedarwood
Scientific Name: Cedrus deodora (Roxb.) Loud
Description – It is a graceful evergreen tree growing to a height of 50 cm occasionally reaching a height of 75 m and 13.5 m in girth.
Propagation
Cedarwood can be produced by seeds. Seeds are extracted by soaking the fruits in tap water to soften and remove the pulp. Air dry the seeds by spreading on cemented area. Seeds can be sown in a 4†x 6†plastic bags filled with ordinary garden soil and sand. Germination usually starts 10 to 15 days after sowing. Regular watering should be done to maintain the moisture level. Seedlings are ready for outplanting 6 months after sowing.
Management
Seedlings can be outplanted once the desired height is attained during rainy season to have better survival. Mulching with dry leaves around the base of the plants to maintain the moisture content of the soil is needed. Weeding and brushing the area as often as necessary to acquire faster growth of the plants.
Economic Uses
- Wood
- Âas a valuable timber for railway sleepers and for construction work as beams, floor boards, posts, door and window frames
- Âalso suitable for pattern making, electric poles and battery separators
- Âused for pencil making
- Wood shaving/sawdust -Â for essential oil for which is used in perfumery, scenting of soaps, as an odor fixative and in technical preparations, room sprays and disinfectants
Nutmeg
Common name: nutmeg
Scientific Name: Myristica fragrans Hout.
Description
Nutmeg is a spreading evergreen, 10 to 18 m high, with willowy green branches, and leathery, yellowish olive green ovate. Aromatic leaves 5 to 12 cm long, bluish beneath. Axillary pale yellow flowers, fruits are yello w pearÂlike fleshy 5 cm. Fruits open by two valves and showing red pulp. The spike which surrounds a brown, hard, shelled seeds, the kernel of the seed is nutmeg.
Propagation
Nutmeg is propagated through seeds. Seeds are extracted from the fleshy pericarp and sown immediately on polyethylene bag with a mixture of garden soil and sand in the ration of 3:1. Regular watering is essential for good germination.
Management
Nutmeg seedlings can be outplanted once the desired height is attained at the onset of the rainy season. Weeding and brushing the area around the plants should be done as often as necessary to maintain moisture content of the soil.
Economic Uses
Seeds – used for medicinal purposes
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hello :)
I’ve been looking for a producer of champaka oils and coffee flower oils. Do you know anyone who produces it locally?
thanks.
Please give me some more information about perfuming plants especially “agarwood”. I want to know its morphology, growing practices, and perfuming fungi or microorganism and its usage. If so I will be thank you very much.
@The Ei San, check this info:
http://www.google.com.ph/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=agarwood
Moon-Anad,
E-mail me (kmainc2004@yahoo.com.ph) the volume of lemon grass oil that your uncle can produce and the proposed price.
Danny
Hello,
Where can I purchase your lemongrass oil?
for moon-anad, what is the minimum order of lemongrass essential oil and how much.
HELP ANYONE, i have an uncle who is producing lemongrass essential oil, BUT, wala siyang market. kindly furnish me of companies interested to buy lemongrass essential oil
@moon-sand, have you approach the spa and salon market? gift-shops (those who are making candles)? big supermarkets (sm, robinsons, etc.)?
@tin, check it in manila seedling bank along EDSA cor. Quezon ave.
hello mr. leo. i really need the aroma plant. where can i buy it in manila? thanks.
hello.where can i buy aroma plant in manila?
@lexi, not sure in Nueva Ecija but you can inquire from CLSU Muñoz, Nueva Ecija Telefax No.: (044) 456-5242, or you can
buy here in Manila Seedling Bank along EDSA cor. Quezon Ave.
Sir Leo, where can I buy Patchouli seedlings in Nueva Ecija? Any additional info will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
@fatima82, you can check the list of buyers/suppliers here:
http://www.sme.com.ph/member-suppliers.php
me 6.2 hectares farm kami , gusto namin taniman ito ng plant species with essential oil pero wala kaming alam n market nito…. could you furnish us listings of possible markets of such plants… tnx