Enfleurage Essencial Oil
Enfleurage Essencial Oil
Enfleurage Essencial Oil
alcohol content which then produced a rose absolute. also known as stereoptanes, including n-
Rose absolute was also analyzed for its volatile nonadecane, n-heptadecane, 9-nonadecene, and
content using GCMS. eicosane. In this term, the form of rose oil as a
Identification of Volatile Components wax-like material is possibly originating from
Volatile compounds of the essential oil extracts were the protective coatings of flowers which then
analyzed by GCMS-QP2010S Shimadzu with Rtx 5 makes the fat hardens and solidifies at room
MS column (length 30 m; ID 0.25 m; film 0.25 um),
temperature (Sterrett 1962). The presence of
Helium gas as a carrier, EI 70 Ev. Column oven
this stearopten guarantees the durability of the
temp.70C, injector temp. 300C, pressure 12 kPa,
total flow 27.3 mL/min, column flow 0.49 mL/min, scent (Dobreva et al. 2013).
ion source temp. 250C, interface temp.305C, Table 1. Chemical components in rose oil from
solvent cut time 3 min, detector gain +0.00 kV. MS Karangpring rose flowers
table, start time 3.20 min, end time 70 min, scan
speed 1250, event time 0.50 sec. The constituents of Retention
No Compound Names %
the oils were identified based on their chromatogram time
and by comparing their mass spectral data with those 1 33.509 9-nonadecene 11.64
from Wiley mass spectral database. 2 34.167 n-heptadecane 26.52
3 34.419 7-hexadecyne 1.00
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 4 35.426 1-octadecene 0.59
5 35.708 Z-7-hexadecene 0.09
Hydrodistillation is a kind of distillation 6 37.427 10-heneicosene 1.59
method that boils the sample together with 7 38.292 n-nonadecane 38.52
water at the same time. Water molecules will trans-1,4-
diffuse into plant tissues and carry out essential 8 38.476 0.23
dihydroxycyclohexane
oil from oil glands to evaporate and condense. 9 41.502 E-5-octadecene 4.43
The oil will naturally be separated from the 10 41.735 eicosane 10.81
aqueous phase in the distillate. In this current 11 43.877 stearaldehyde 1.40
research, the expected rose oil from 12 45.546 tridecanaldehyde 0.08
hydrodistillation method was presented in the 13 48.178 n-hexatriacontane 2.84
14 50.982 octadecyl chloride 0.16
above phase of distillate and was separated
from rose water to yield 0.07% oil. The This result research was relevant with the
performance of this rose oil was in semisolid result of Moein et al. (2010) mentioning that
form with a white transparent waxy look when Rosa damascena Mill. from South of Iran
it was cooled at 0-5C or even at room contains nonadecane, heneicosane,
temperature. However, the odor of this rose oil docosaneand 9-nonadecene in a total amount of
does not represent the fragrance of rose 92.06% of the rose oil, while the rest comprises
flowers. citronellol and germacrene-D. Our result
showed a relative big different on the
composition of rose essential oil from other
research that also used hydrodistillation to
extract rose oil. Babu et al. (2002) confirmed
that damask rose oil from the western
Himalayas contains rose alcohols (such as
citronellol, nerol, and geraniol) up to 68.13%
and long-chain hydrocarbons including
nonadecane, heptadecane, 9-eicosene, and
docosane for about 21.23% of the total oil.
Figure 1. A chromatogram of rose oil from Dobreva et al. (2013) also enlighten the major
hydrodistillation method volatile contents of three genotypes of oil-
Chromatogram of this rose oil can be seen bearing roses in Kazanluk are mostly consist of
in Figure 1, while the name list of those citronellol, geraniol, nerol and nonadecane.
volatile compounds can be seen Table 1. Phenylethyl alcohol, as a marker compound of
GCMS analysis showed that this rose oil only rose flower, is also obtained from this research
contains saturated and unsaturated aliphatic though , in trace quantity, 0.26-1.31% of total
long chain hydrocarbon compounds, which is rose oil since it is a polar compound and more
soluble in water.
presence of natural oxidators such as rose Beside, rose water showed a mature content of
oxides and acids in enfleurage and defleurage rose flower marker compound, 2-phenylethyl
process could influence the stability of 2- alcohol, making this aromatic water to be a
phenylethyl alcohol. Moreover, possibility of precious candidate of flavor and aromatherapy
the presence of microbes inside chassis and the agent obtaining from the distillation process.
fat, such as Acetobacter acetic, will oxidize 2-
phenylethyl alcohol into corresponding acid ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
and aldehyde (Gandolfi et al. 2004).
We would like to acknowledge DRPM and the
Nevertheless, the rose absolute
University of Jember for providing research
performance from enfleurage is quite
and community engagement grant in 2017. We
impressive with a light yellow color oil and
also thankful to rose farmer community in
pleasant odor effect. There was no fat left from
Karangpring village, Jember district, for
adsorbent to be the presence in the rose
supplying the sample for research.
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