Essential Oils and their identifiers

Question 1

What are the three types of Geranium?

Answer 1

Geranium Egypt, Geranium China, Geranium Bourbon

Question 2

What essential oil contains the most Citronellyl Tiglate and Geranyl Tiglate?

Answer 2

Geranium China

Question 3

What essential oil contains the most 10-epi-gamma-eudesmol?

Answer 3

Geranium Egypt

Question 4

What essential oil(s) contains a significant amount of 6,9-guaiadiene?

Answer 4

Geranium China and Geranium Bourbon

Question 5

What essential oil of the geraniums has the lowest amount of geraniol and geranyl formate?

Answer 5

Geranium China

Question 5

What essential oils have the following ratios of citronellyl formate to geranyl formate?

a) 5:1
b) 3:1
c) 3:2

Answer 5

a) Geranium China
b) Geranium Egypt
c) Geranium Bourbon

Question 5

What essential oil contains the most Eudesmol?

Answer 5

Geranium Egypt

Question 6

menthone : isomenthone are present in what two essential oils?

Answer 6

Peppermint and Geranium

Question 7

What makes Geranium different from Peppermint?

Answer 7

Geranium has more isomenthone than menthone, and Peppermint has more menthone than isomenthone.

Question 8

What essential oil has camphene, eucalyptol, and camphor at high levels?

Answer 8

Rosemary Morocco

Question 9

What essential oil contains the most terpinyl acetate and eucalyptol?

Answer 9

Cardamon Guatemala

Question 10

What oil has a 2:1 ratio of eucalyptol to camphor?

Answer 10

Rosemary Morocco

Question 11

What essential oil contains the most calamenene and delta-cadinene?

Answer 11

Cade oil and “Birch Tar”

Question 12

What essential oil is primarily made up of guaiol and bulnesol?

Answer 12

Guaiacwood Paraguay

Question 13

What essential oil has guaiyl acetate and bulnesyl acetate in it?

Answer 13

Guaiacwood acetate

Question 14

What essential oil has an alpha-cedrene:thujopsene ratio of approximately 1:2?

Answer 14

Cedarwood Texas

Question 15

What essential oil has an alpha-cedrene:thujopsene ratio of approximately 1:1?

Answer 15

Cedarwood Virginia

Question 16

What essential oils contain alpha-cedrene, beta-cedrene, thujopsene, and cedrol?

Answer 16

Cedarwood texas, cedarwood virginia

Question 17

What oils contain eugenol and safrole?

Answer 17

Cinnamon bark, cinnamon leaf

Question 18

What essential oil has eugenol and methyl eugenol?

Answer 18

Pimento berry

Question 19

What essential oil contains eugenol, eugenyl acetate, and cinnamyl acetate?

Answer 19

Cinnamon leaf

Question 20

What essential oil has the most eugenyl acetate?

Answer 20

Clove bud

Question 21

What essential oil is primarily made up of eugenol and cinnamaldehyde?

Answer 21

Cinnamon bark oil

Question 22

What essential oils can be identified by the presence of elemol and elemicin?

Answer 22

Elemi Phillippines, Elemi resin, Amyris

Question 23

What essential oil contains valerianol?

Answer 23

Amyris

Question 24

What essential oil is primarily made up of elemol and elemicine?

Answer 24

Elemi Phillippines

Question 25

What essential oul contains the least amount of elemol and elemicine and is mostly benzyl benzoate?

Answer 25

Elemi resin

Question 26

What essential oil contains alpha thujone, beta thujone, and camphor?

Answer 26

Armoise oil

Question 27

What essential oil contains B-thujone and sabinyl acetate?

Answer 27

Wormwood

Question 28

What essential oil contains a-fenchone, a-thujone, and B-thujone?

Answer 28

Cedarleaf oil

Question 29

What essential oil contains methyl salicylate and methyl isoeugenol?

Answer 29

Tuberose abs India