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Colorless or light yellow to yellowish brown clear essential oil. It has a sweet aroma like rose and geraniol, as well as a minty flavor, and a bitter taste. It is unstable to strong acids, and geraniol esters and citronellol esters will be partially saponified in alkaline. It is soluble in ethanol, benzyl benzoate and most vegetable oils, and is often milky white in mineral oil and propylene glycol. It is insoluble in glycerin.
Geranium oil has a rose and geraniol-like aroma. It is sweet and slightly clear, and the aroma is stable and long-lasting. Freshly distilled geranium oil sometimes has a mixed smell, which is the aroma of a small amount of sulfide, which disappears after a short storage period.
Geranium oil is distilled from the flowers and leaves of geranium.
