Mawah oil (Palmarosa, Cymbopogon martinii var. motia) has a fresh, sweet-rosy character driven by high geraniol content. It opens green and grassy with a lemony lift, then settles into a soft floral rose-geranium heart with a mildly herbaceous, slightly waxy undertone.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 255.
Mawah Oil is greenish-yellow to dark olive or pale brownish in color.
Its odor is somewhat bitter-harsh, leafy-woody, slightly earthy, but later toning out in a much more pleasant rosy, geranium type of odor. The dryout note is, however, more similar to that of palmarosa than to ordinary African geranium oil.
It is useful in soap perfumes if the typical and highly diffusive topnote of true geranium oil is not needed. The oil blends excellently with all the usual perfume materials as needed in rose compounds for soap, etc.
About 5 to 8 metric tons of essential oil is steam distilled annually from cultivated plants in this area.