Eugenia Jambolana Oil

#### Eugenia Jambolana. The oil of **Eugenia Jambolana **is hardly known outside India. It is steam distilled from the leaves of the above tree of the genus Myrtaceae. Distillation is carried out in various places all over India where the tree is known as **Jamun**. Eugenia jambolana oil is a yellowish to greenish- olive, blue-olive or brownish, fairly viscous liquid. Its odor is dry, woody, strong and spicy-earthy like a very poor patchouli oil (cade-like topnote). There is an undertone with some similarity to clove leaf oil, but a strong and heavy terpene note covers the sweet spicy odor. The dryout is terpinolene-like, somewhat spicy-woody, rather dry. There is a peculiar "bitterness" through all the stages of evaporation of this oil. **Eugenia**** ****Jambolana**** **oil is used locally in India as a mild antiseptic and as a perfume material in low-cost soap perfumes, etc. It blends well with cedarwood, citronella, safrole, rosemary, thyme, isoeugenol, amylsalicylate, etc. The author has but little information in respect to the annual production of this oil. It is not conceivable that the oil will become a "steady" item on the perfumer's shelf in other parts of the world.