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Augustus Oils Ltd. Aniseed Essential Oil can be obtained from the fruits by either steam distillation or extraction using supercritical carbon dioxide. The yield of essential oil is influenced by the growing conditions and extraction process, with supercritical extraction being more efficient. Regardless of the method of isolation the main component of the oil is anethole, with minor components including 4-anisaldehyde, estragole and pseudoisoeugenyl-2-methylbutyrates, amongst others. (Alternately found by Orav et al. 2008 to be two to six percent extracted oil by weight of raw seed material, seventy four to ninety four percent being trans-anethole and the remaining fraction estragole (methylchavicol), anisaldehyde and γ-himachalene.) Anethole is responsible for anise’s characteristic odor and flavor.

Augustus Oils Ltd. Cedarwood Oil Atlas (aromatherapy) is also known as “ Moroccan” Cedarwood Oil. The oil is entirely different, chemically and olfactory from the American Virginia or Texas cedarwood oils. The tree, Cedrus Atlantica, is a pine, not a cypress (such as the American and East African cedars). It is believed that the Atlas cedar is originated from the famous Lebanon cedars which grow wild in Lebanon and in the island of Cyprus, now protected from being felled for essential oil distillation and lumbering. The Atlas cedarwood oil may occasionally be offered as Lebanon Cedarwood Oil. Its scientific name is juniperus virginiana.

Augustus Oils Ltd. Mandarin Essential Oil Green is cold pressed from the peel of green (unripe) mandarins, the fruit of Citrus reticulata.

Augustus Oils Ltd. Armoise Essential Oil is a dark green, rather viscous liquid of very powerful, bitter-herbaceous odor and bitter-burning flavor. The “greenness” in odor type and the peculiar bitter aroma of this oil makes it an interesting item for chypre, fougere, “forest” notes, aftershave colognes, etc. and for the flavoring of alcoholic beverages. Artemisia alba, called white mugwort, white wormwood, white artemisia, or camphor southernwood, is a species of Artemisia native to Spain, France, Belgium, Italy, Sicily, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and the Balkans.

Augustus Oils Ltd. Caraway Seed Oil (aromatherapy) is colorless or very pale yellow. The odor is stronger, less fatty. The flavor is warmer, less sweet and more biting than that of the crude (natural) oil. Crude caraway oil is the direct distillate. It is a pale yellow to brownish, mobile liquid, possessing a strong and peculiar odor typical of the fruit, but with a fatty-harsh undertone. The taste is similar, but quite burning, warm, biting.