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fresh1

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Re: Essential Oils
« on: May 13, 2012, 08:59:37 AM »
here' a really cool essential oil site which shows all the plants with unique fragrances and the chemicals (with diagrams) that make up the fragrant oils in them, as well some quantities and how they combine to create the smells.
pretty cool if you really like smelling thing, like I do! 

   http://www.bojensen.net/EssentialOilsEng/EssentialOils.htm
 
with listings like this
   
Blueboy --- acetophenone

Stirlingia latifolia (Proteaceae)
Blueboy is a native of Western Australia and belongs to the Proteacean family from the southern hemisphere
with most of its members in Australia and South Africa. It is a small shrub-like plant capable of surviving occasional fires, but the reason for its inclusion here is that it holds a remarkable record: its essential oil (1 % by weight of the fresh young shoots) consists almost exclusively (~ 90 %) of acetophenone, the simplest of aromatic ketones [283] [284].
Acetophenone, or methyl phenyl ketone, has a very intense, sweet, floral, acacia and hawthorn-like odor, easily becoming overpowering in high concentration. Being also a well-known industrial chemical and perhaps considered as such by most fragrance chemists, acetophenone may nevertheless "produce truly pleasant olfactory effect in the hands of a skilled and experienced artist-perfumer," according to Arctander [see additional literature under references].

cyclamens--
phenylacetaldehyde (32 %) and 2-methylamino-acetophenone (31 %) together with 2-dimethylamino-acetophenone and 2-formylamino-acetophenone.
         
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Re: Re: Essential Oils
« Reply #1 on: May 15, 2012, 01:30:55 AM »
Thats fucking awesome dude thank you. Great resource.

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Re: Re: Essential Oils
« Reply #2 on: May 15, 2012, 02:19:25 AM »
My pleasure  :D   Thanx for the feedback it's much appreciated and really helpful to know what fellow wasps like  8)

Especially from a new wasp....honey for you ;)

 So I bid you 'g'day' misgnomermon 

 maybe you would be kind enough to do an introduction so we can say hello  ;D
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Re: Re: Essential Oils
« Reply #3 on: June 11, 2012, 09:52:31 AM »
very cool site there mate cheers