CUMIN SEED OIL

Cumin, Cuminum  cyminum,  is a small annual herb belonging to the carrot family.  The small white flowers arranged in umbels produce the elongated, ridged, aromatic seeds. Seeds are harvested before full maturity, when they begin to develop a yellow tint. It takes forty days for the seedlings to mature. At harvest time, the plants are reaped and dried; the fruits are then harvested by winnowing. The essential oil, distilled from the crushed seeds, has an intensely fresh and spicy aromatic fragrance.

Appearance                                          free flowing liquid.

Colour.                                                   Pale yellow to dark brownish yellow.

Odour.                                                   Sweet cymic tope note with a fatty  cuminic, spicy base note.

Refractive index                                   1.500  to  1.506.

Optical Rotation.                                  +3  to +8.

Specific gravity.                                    0.905  to  0.925.

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