Templin Essential Oil
Silver Fir is highly esteemed in Europe for its medicinal virtues and its fragrant scent, the silver fir tree is a relatively small coniferous tree, with a regular pyramidal shape and a silvery white bark. The essential oil is obtained by steam distillation from the needles and young twigs, fir cones, and broken up pieces. It is native to North European mountainous regions and cultivated mainly in Switzerland, Poland, Germany, France, Austria and especially Yugoslavia for timber, wood pulp and christmas trees. A number of oils are produced from the twigs and needles of various members of the coniferous families Abies, Larix, Picea, Pinus and Tsuga. All are called fir needle oil; therefore it is important to know the specific botanical name. An essential oil is produced from the needles alone or the needles and twigs, as well as from the cones, the later is usually referred to as 'templin oil', experiments have shown there is virtually no difference between the former two of these oils. Templin essential oil is produced from the seeds of abies alba, the seed bearing cones are crushed and the oil is water or steam distilled, produced mainly in Austria, Switzerland, Germany and Slavonia.
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| Botanical Name: | Abies alba Mill. |
| Family: | Pinaceae |
| Synonyms: | Abies pectinata, abies exselsa, abies picea, white spruce, European silver fir, edeltanne. |
| See Also: | Silver Fir Needle |
| Parts Used: | Cones (seeds) |
| Extraction Method: | Steam or Water Distillation |
| Appearance: | Water white, mobile liquid |
| Aroma Description: | Fresh, sweet, pine needle, balsm with bitter orange tone. |
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| Modern Uses: | Templin oil is used as a freshener in colognes, after shaves, fougéres, also in better pine fragrances for room sprays, bath oils etc. Also mush used as a 'corrective' agent in siberian fir oils. |
| Cautions: | Not Known |
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