Natural fragrance from Wild Orchid Flower Dendrobiun scabringue Ldt.

Abstract

Sampling the delightful fragrant wild orchid flowers, Dendrobium scarbilingue Ldt., grown at the high elevation at Mae-Hong Son in the northern part of Thailand during January and february. The samples were phyto-chemically analysed in the Research of Oil Plant and Natural Products laboratory of Division of Agriculture chemistry, Dept. of Agriculture. By using three methods of extraction, cold extraction, distillation and charcoal adsoption, the extracts by cold extraction showed the most successful. The percentage of concrete were 0.3%, the yield which gold colored liquid and pleasing fragrance were refined by distillation method under supercritical with alcohol. The separation and identification of active principles of fragrance were analysed by gas liquid chromatograph (GLC) and gas chromatograph - mass spectrometer (GC-MS). The fragrance consist of n-butanol, linalyl acetate, cis-3 hexanol, linalool, benzyl alcohol, phenyl ethyl acetate, B-lonone, lily aldehyde, nerolidol, methyl anthranilate, vanillin, benzyl benzoate, etc. It will be pltential use for fragrance industry in the future.