Boronia Absolute

The Boronia megastigma or brown boronia is a shrub in the family Rutaceae. It is a native plant of the south-west areas of Western Australia and currently it is also cultivated in Tasmania. It is an erect shrub with aromatic leaves and flowers, the leaves with three or five leaflets and the flowers cup-shaped, dark brown to purplish black on the outside and yellow inside. Boronia contains a unique combination of jasmonates and ionones that enhance a broad range of characteristics in formulation, for this reason it is widely farmed to obtain the absolute that is produced by non-chlorinated solvent extraction (hexane and ethanol) of the open flowers and fine linear leaves.