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Common Methods of Scent
Extraction in Brief

Steam Distillation: Distillation is one of the older methods used for extracting the essence of a plant or flower. Basically, the process applies heat to water with the herb present in a confined area. The herb leeches its essence which becomes steam, the steam condenses, and the condensed droplets are then collected. There are other processes that are now applied to the collected material to further refine it so that only the essence itself remains.
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