Anya's Garden Natural Perfumery Institute - Extraction Methods and Products

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Cold Enfleurage - Vietnamese gardenias from Anya's Garden

I recently blogged about production methods in the aromatics industry, and how important it is for students of the Natural Perfumery Institute to be knowledgeable about them.  A basic course needs to cover these topics so that the student perfumer will be able to converse and communicate intelligently and effectively about the sources of the aromatics used in our art.
Vietnamese gardenia from Anya's Garden

Many students, if ambitious, can extract aromatics from plant material, animal derivatives and soil themselves if they wish.  Here is a list of the topics covered in Module 2 of my textbook.

3.2:  Extraction Methods and Products  
                                                              
Distillation                                                                                                               
Steam Distillation                                                                                               
Hydro-distillation                                                                                                
Hydro-diffusion                                                                                                   
Cohobation                                                                                                         
Fractional Distillation                                                                                          
Rectification                                                                                                       
Vacuum Distillation                                                                                            
Destructive Distillation                                                                                        
Expression                                                                                                             
Enfleurage                                                                                                              
Concretes                                                                                                               
Absolutes                                                                                                               
Floral Waxes                                                                                                          
CO2 Extraction                                                                                                       
CO2 Extraction for Essential Oils or CO2 Selects                                             
Supercritical CO2 Extraction for Totals                                                              
Tincturing                                                                                                               
Infusing                                                                                                                  
Ultrasonic Extraction                                                                                              
Isolates                                                                                                                   
Natural Isolates: From Rejection to Acceptance                                                
How are Isolates Made?                                                                                    
Isolation Methods                                                                                               
Ongoing Study of Extraction Methods

Hot Enfleurage - a Batteuse was used in earlier French extraction processes


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