Pinus Pumilio Oil

#### Pinus Pumilio Oil. This oil is also known as **Pinus**** ****Montana**** ****Oil**. Although belonging to the group of "low-ester" pine needle oils, pinus pumilio oil deserves a good deal of attention since its unique odor is due to trace amounts of substances which apparently are absent in ordinary "pine needle oils". It is generally believed that the characteristic odor of pinus pumilio oil is due to traces of lower aliphatic aldehydes (hexyl-, octyl-, etc.) and perhaps certain cyclic aldehydes. The oil is steam distilled from the leaves and twigs of **Pinus**** ****Pumilio**, also called **Pinus**** ****Montana**** **or **Pinus Mugo**. It is one of many different types of conifer which bears the popular name "mountain pine". The tree grows extensively in central Europe, particularly in Austria (Tirol), Yugoslavia, northern Italy and the Balkans. Tirol (Austria) is the most important producer. it is estimated that between 15 and 30 metric tons of this oil is produced annually, all in Europe. Production in Denmark covered this country's consumption for a number of years. Distillation in Jutland (Denmark) is irregular, but has reached several tons per year. The oil was used in pine needle bath oil. **Pinus**** ****Pumilio**** ****Oil**** **is water white (when fairly fresh), and has a very pleasant pine-type odor: balsamic-sweet, faintly woody, also slightly spicy, reminiscent of cypress and juniperberry, with an increasingly oily-fatty, but interesting undertone of great tenacity. The oil is used in perfumery mainly in combination with other pine needle oils, isobornyl acetate, cedarwood oils or derivatives, lavandin oil, rosemary oil, sage oil, aliphatic aldehydes, cananga oil, labdanum products, etc. for room spray perfumes, bath preparations, Christmas fragrances, "leather" type bases, etc. **Pinus Pumilio Oil **is frequently adulterated. Pinene, pine oil, pine oil fractions, eucalyptus foreruns, cheaper pine needle oils, camphene, limonene, etc. are among the most common adulterants. The scarcity of the oil outside Europe has greatly encouraged the "cutting" and plain adulteration of commercial lots of this oil.