Spanish Sage Oil

#### Sage Oil, Spanish. From the wild growing herb of **Salvia Lavandulaefolia **in Spain an essential oil known as **Spanish Sage Oil **is steam distilled. The oil is produced in many of the districts where the Spanish spike oil (see this monograph) is produced, and, unfortunately for the latter, contamination or even deliberate adulteration of spike oil with sage oil occurs quite frequently. This fact also has an adverse effect on the reputation of the Spanish sage oil, and lessens the consumer's interest in it. The consumers are left confused about what they are actually getting when they buy either of these oils. Obviously, good and genuine oils are obtainable from certain houses. In fact, if genuine oils were not available, the above remarks could not be made as they would have no justifiable basis and would be of little or no interest. A related species, the "Greek Sage", is distilled in the Fethiye province of Turkey from the Salvia Triloba plant. The essential oil has a harsh- rosemary like odor and is used locally for pharmaceutical purposes. **Spanish**** ****Sage**** ****Oil**** **is a pale yellow mobile oil with a fresh-herbaceous, eucalyptol-camphor like odor, a rather sharp pine-like topnote and little or no sweetness on drying out. The oil is used in soap perfumery and in the "reconstitution" of other essential oils, e. g. Spanish spike lavender oil. In fact, the two oils have many common constituents. **Spanish**** ****Sage**** ****Oil**** **blends well with the related oils of rosemary, lavandin, spike lavender, pine needle oils, citronella oils, etc., and is used generally as a freshener in industrial perfumes, soap perfumes, detergent fragrances, etc. The annual production of **Spanish Sage ****Oil **varies from three to ten metric tons, but it is believed that significant quantities of the herb are distilled along with rosemary and Spanish spike lavender. Thus, exact figures on the exploitation of Spanish sage are not obtainable. Wild growing Salvia Lavandulaefolia plants in Yugoslavia occasionally contaminate the Dalmatian rosemary oil (see monograph on **Rosemary Oils**).