Clavel Moena Oil

#### Clavel Moena. Oil of **Clavel Moena **is not produced on a commercial scale but it represents one example among the hundreds of essential oils which have been produced experimentally and which, in case of significant interest, could be produced on a larger scale with little or no notice and at a very reasonable cost. The oil is also called "**Peruvian Spice Oil**" (or Peruvian spicewood oil). It is steam distilled in Peru from the wood of a tree of the genus lauraceae (possibly myrtaeceae). The Spanish name for clove (or carnation) is **Clavel**. Oil of **Clavel Moena **is an almost colorless or pale yellow, mobile liquid of a warm-spicy, nutmeg-like, cinnamon-leaf-like odor. The undertone and the dryout are distinctly dry-woody, less spicy and it is strongly reminiscent of the odor of clove leaf sesquiterpenes (caryophyllenes). **Clavel**** ****Moena**** **oil could, in view of its peculiar composition, possibly find use in perfume work on artificial essential oils (clove, cubeb, nutmeg, black pepper, etc.) or the oil could be used in perfumes of the woody-Oriental and spicy type. The flavor of **Clavel**** ****Moena**** **oil is far from attractive. It merely represents a high concentration of the dry-bitter notes which are so carefully avoided in the selection of a good clove bud oil for flavor use. It has been claimed that the essential oil from the leaves of the above tree consists almost exclusively of **Myristicin**. The leaf oil is not a commercially available article.