Tilahun Gisila*, Amare Ayalew, Minbale Gashu and Samuel Begashawu
The aim of this study was to extract essential oil from selected medicinal and aromatic plant leaves and flowers for natural perfume formulation. Fragrant essential oils were extracted from L. angustifolia, C. martini, R. officinalis, C. nardus, B. papyrifera, J. procera and T. schimperi by using steam distillation and sohxlet extraction method and the essential oil yield was 1.3%, 1.04%, 0.91%, 0.83%, 5%, 2.3% and 1.17% (w/w) respectively. The GC-MS result of extracted essential oil analysis revealed there are different compounds in each of the plant extract essential oils that give fragrance scent. Some of the chemical compounds that are found in fragrant essential oil such as linalool, geraniol, citronellol, α- pinene, β-pinene, citronellal and eucalyptol are the main chemical components of perfume scent. Formulation of perfume was done by using fragrance essential oil and ethyl alcohol as a solvent with different proportion of the fragrance oil combination. The panelist hedonic test result, showed that, the first chosen perfume contain, L. angustifolia as top note; Cymbopogon martini as a middle note and Boswellia papyrifera as a base note and the second were Cymbopogon nardus as top note; Rosmarinus officinalis as a middle note and Boswellia papyrifera as base note.
