Chrysopogon zizanioides
Crops
Vetiver ( Vetiveria zizanioides, Syn: .. Chrysopogon zizanioides, Andropogon squarrosus Hack, Andropogon muricatus Retz ) is a tropical, originally coming from tropical Asia sweet grass. The grass clumps have a diameter of about 30 cm, the height of the plant is 50 to 150 cm. The roots penetrate up to 3 meters deep with a dense and massive braided into the ground.
Use
Vetiver is deliberately planted because of its dense root braid wherever soil erosion threatens. The roots also keep the soil moist and can detoxify him to a certain degree. Therefore vetiver is planted in Southeast Asia on the one hand to improve the soil, on the other hand, as a field boundary.
The grass is also used as cattle feed and should be mowed for every 1-3 months.
Vetiver oil (often also written Vetyver ) is obtained from the purified fresh and / or dried roots of the grass by steam distillation. The oil is slightly viscous, has a brownish, sometimes slightly reddish- brown color and an intense balsamic, adhering earthy- woody odor. Since very different qualities are processed, fresh and dried roots are used, there are big differences in quality of the oils offered commercially. Vetiver is used in perfumery, aromatherapy and naturopathy and also serves as an incense.
For the manufacture of perfume, the fragrance vetiveryl is of great importance. The bitter, smoky and clear earthy nuances of vetiver oil into the background, while unfold woody- balsamic fragrance ingredients much more elegant. Vetiveryl is an ester obtained by acetylation of vetiver oil with acetic anhydride.
Ingredients
Among the 100 components of the essential oil include, among other things:
- Benzoic acid
- Vetiven
- Khusimen
- Khusimon
- β - humulene
- Selinene * γ - selinene
- δ - Kadinen
- Kalaren, gurjunen
- Epizizanal
- Khusimol
- Valerenol
- Vetivon * α - Vetivon
- Furfural
- Vetivenylvetivenat
- 5 - Epiprezizan
- α - muurolene
- Calacoren
- α - Longipinen
- δ - selinene
- Valencene
- α - amorphous
- 3- Epizizanol
- Vetivon * β - Vetivon
- Vetivazulen
Swell
- Encke / Buchheim / Seybold: Zander, Dictionary of Plant Names, 15th Edition, ISBN 3-8001-5072-7.
- Martinez / Hartwig: Paperback of the fragrances, Verlag Harri German, Frankfurt / a.Main, 1st edition 1998, ISBN 3-8171-1539-3.
- Susanne Fischer- Rizzi: messages to the sky - application, mode of action and stories of fragrant incense, Heyne, Munich, 1999, ISBN 3-453-15504-1.