Bay Essential Oil W I CAS 8006-78-8

Bay Leaf Oil is a yellowish to dark brown liquid. (Variations in color occur according to the type of still used and the kind of shipping container). The odor is fresh-spicy, somewhat medicinal, but it has a lasting, sweet-balsamic undertone. The odor of this oil is quite obnoxious to some people, sickly sweet, nauseating. To others, it is quite fresh and pleasant. The chief constituent is eugenol which is also present as a methylether. Myrcene, limonene dipentene and small amounts of citral bring a certain freshness to the harshleafy, phenolic odor. The flavor of this oil is warm, almost pungent, spicy and somewhat bitter.

Arctander, Steffen . Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin (p. 101).

Bay Leaf Oil or Bay Oil is distilled from the leaves of a middle-sized tree, Pimenta Racemosa, earlier known as Myrcia Acris. The leaves are distilled either with water or with steam. It is customary to add salt to the distillation water in order to increase the temperature and thus complete the distillation of oil more rapidly (compare Vetiver oil in Réunion, etc.).

Arctander, Steffen . Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin (p. 100).

CAS	8006-78-8
FEMA	2122
Binomial Name	Pimenta racemosa
Appearance	Dark brown liquid
Odour description	at 10.00 % in dipropylene glycol. sweet spicy clove herbal waxy oily aldehydic aromatic metallic Luebke, William tgsc, (1995)
Taste description	bay spicy fruity peppery aromatic waxy

Bay Essential Oil W I CAS 8006-78-8

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