Gangotri Essential Oils Pvt. Ltd. Nayaganj, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh

Patchouli grows well in warm to tropical climates. It thrives in hot weather but not direct sunlight. If the plant withers due to lack of watering, it will recover well and quickly after it has been watered. The seed-bearing flowers are very fragrant and bloom in late fall.

It is an evergreen tree that grows up to 20 meters (65 feet) with dense foliage and small dull-yellow flowers. The fruit resembles a small peach and the oil is obtained from the kernel of the seeds.

Hedychium spicatum is a smallish hardy ginger that grows to around 1 m, with green leaves and large orange and white flowers.

Cumin or cuminum cyminum is an aromatic spice known for its unique, bitter and warm flavor. It is a small annual herb about 50 cm (20 inches) high, with deep green, narrow feathery leaves and tiny white or pink flowers, followed by small oblong seeds.

A herbaceous perennial plant with yellow composite flowers growing in the Himalayan highlands. It is also extracts by using vacuum distillation of the resinoid extract obtained by extraction of the roots with solvents. It has a peculiar soft, but extremely tenacious odour.

The annual or biennial grows to about 1 meter in height. It has sparse, fine, feathery leaves and pinkishwhite flowers, which are followed by green seeds. The leaves, when crushed, give off an unpleassant odor like squashed bugs.

Citronellol is a fragrant chemical that occurs naturally in many plant oils, and in certain fruits and beverages. As a pesticide active ingredient, citronellol is used on food crops and omamentals to attract mites, a significant agricultural pest.

Citronella oil has been used as flavoring for foods and beverage in very low quantities (approximately 45 ppm). Java citronella has the higher alcohol content among the citronella oils.

Cinnamon trees are 10-15 meters (32.8-49.2 feet) tall. The leaves are ovateoblong in shape, 7-18 cm (1.75-7.1 inches) long. The flowers, which are arranged in panicles, have a greenish color, and have a distinct odor. The fruit is a purple 1-cm berry containing a single seed.

The tree of rust-colored and can grow up to 15 meters (45 feet), but is kept down to 6 feet for commercial reasons.

Celery plant is extremely popular in the Indian sub-continent. Having the appearance of a pale yellow colour, this plant grows with a smooth stem and stem and soft leaves sporting white flowers. It has shiny segmented, dark-green leaves containing toothed leaflets.

A bristly-stemmed annual or beinnian plant which grows to 2-4 feet high. The leaves are finely dissected and the flowers appear in a flat cluster with 1 small deep purple floret at the center.

It grows up to 4 meters (13 feet) high and has long, green silky blades, small yellowy flowers with a violet tip and a large fleshy rhizome, similar to ginger. Oblong gray fruits follow the flowers, each containing many seeds.

Chamomile is a flowering plant in the daisy family. Native to Europe and Asia the chamomile plant can grow up to 90-125 cm high with very hairy leaves and tubular yellow flowers, surrounded by white ligulets.

A reed like aquatic plant about 1 meter high, with sword shape leaves and small greenish-yellow flowers. It grows on the margins of lakes and streams with the long branched rhizome immersed int he mud. The whole plant is aromatic.

An evergreen, vigorous growing tree, it can reach 30 meters (98 feet) and has a whitish spongy bark with a crooked trunk. It is known in incident India as Kayaputi and was also revered in the East for all its uses.

The 'tulsi' plant or Indian basil is an important symbol in the Hindu religious tradition. Normally the plant is about two to three feet long with small green leaves.

Anise is a herbaceous annual plant growing to 3 ft (0.91 m) tall. The leaves at the base of the plant are simle, 0.5-2 in (1.3 - 5.1 cm) long and shallowly lobed, while leaves higher on the stems are featherly pinnate, divident into numerous leaves.

The oil is pale yellow, having a sweetish sharp, burning taste, and a penetrating odor resembling that of the fruit. It gradually becomes darker in color.

The oil of ajwain is an almost colourless to brownish liquid with characteristic oddour and a sharp hot taste. Ajwain is called omam in the southern part of India. AJwain is cultivated in black soil particularly along the riverbank throughout India and also Iran, Egypt and Afghanistan. It is a small, erect, annual shrub with soft fine hairs.