Aromatic oil distilled from plants containing volatile oils.
Natural oils that have been isolated and concentrated for use as in perfumes, foods, and beverages.
Quickly evaporating and odoriferous oil produced in the seeds, flowers, leaves, stems, and roots of many herbs.
Mixture of volatile terpenoids responsible for the taste and smell of many plants, especially spices.
Concentrated essences extracted from plants.
A volatile and aromatic liquid (sometimes semi-solid) which generally constitutes the odorous principles of a plant. It is obtained by a process of expression or distillation from a single botanical form or species.
A medicinal or fragrant oil distilled from some part of a plant.
An aromatic oil found in minute cavities in the leaves or flowers of plants, or exuded as droplets mixed with resin. Plants are harvested and distilled to obtain commercial quantities of certain oils, used for perfumery and food flavoring. So-called because each type of oil was said to be the ‘essence’ of a particular fragrance—as in lavender oil, lemon oil, eucalyptus oil—but most such plants contain mixtures of oils of differing chemical composition.
A volatile oil derived from an aromatic plant. Essential oils are used in in various pharmaceutical preparations.
Volatile oil, especially one that has an odor and produces taste sensations, obtained from certain plants by various means of extraction. Some of these oils have been used since antiquity as preservatives and antiseptics (e.g., thymol and eugenol). Some are used in flavorings, perfumes, and medicines. They are usually complex chemicals difficult to purify.
Complex mixture of odorous volatile compounds found in plants.
The odoriferous, volatile (i.e. evaporates in the open air) component of an aromatic plant, usually captured by steam distillation or expression.
A volatile oil present in aromatic plants, usually containing terpenoid substances.
Oils extracted using various forms of distillation from the seeds, bark, roots, leaves, wood, and/or resin of plants.
Aromatic oils extracted from leaves, flowers and fruits; called “essential” because they carry the “essence” (the scent) of the plant.
An evaporative oil derived from the leaves, fruits, flowers, roots, or other botanical parts of a plant, commonly employed in aromatherapy, perfumery, and the production of food and beverages.