Aeollanthus suaveolens Mart. ex Spreng. - syn.Aeollanthus suavis Mart.; Aeollanthus cassawa Taylor; Aeollanthus heliotropioides Oliv.; Aeollanthus glabrifolius De Wild. - Lamiaceae \\
catinga de mulata (brazil.), cegadinka (brazil.); macassa (brazil.); bwalangino (Nigeria); otek (Cameroon) \\

Succulent annual herb up to 0.5m tall, native to southern tropical Africa, cultivated in Brazil; stems glabrous to hispidulous; leaves sessile or shortly petiolate; blade lanceolate to elliptic or ovate-lanceolate; flowers secund, single, closely placed, subsessile; corolla blue to purple, 4-5mm long; nutlets ovoid or oblong, smooth. \\
[[https://plants.jstor.org/compilation/Aeollanthus.suaveolens]]

"Cultivated as medicinal plant against skin, ear and eye diseases in Brazil. Used as an important voodoo plant for ritual baths by the Afro-Brazilians. Grown in northern Nigeria for its very aromatic foliage, which is used to flavour soup. Employed as a medicinal plant and soap-substitute in tropical Africa. The essential oil of the plant is of potential value in perfumery. Wild distribution: Tropical Africa (Nigeria to southern Sudan and Kenya in the north to South Africa); naturalized in South America (Brazil)." \\
[[http://mansfeld.ipk-gatersleben.de/apex/f?p=185:46:6219216234452::NO::module,mf_use,source,akzanz,rehm,akzname,taxid:mf,,botnam,0,,Aeollanthus%20suaveolens,15738|Aeollanthus suaveolens Mart. ex Spreng. (original text version April 2001, K.Pistrick), Mansfeld's Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Plants]]

The essential oil from flowering material is dominated by linalool (41.8%), linalyl acetate (15.8%) and (E)-β-farnesene (14.0%). Oil from vegetative material contained linalool (35.5%), linalyl acetate (12.4%) and (E)-β-farnesene (17.0%). The distinct coconut-like scent is provided by δ-decalactone (traces-0.01%) and massoia lactone (0.7%) in flowering material; oil from vegetative material contained δ-decalactone (0.4%) and massoia lactone (7.0%). \\
[Tucker, Arthur O., Michael J. Maciarello, and Ben H. Alkire. "Essential Oil of Aeollanthus suaveolens Mart, ex Spreng.(Lamiaceae)." Journal of Essential Oil Research 13.3 (2001): 198-199]

"Water-distilled essential oils of Aeollanthus suaveolens were analyzed by both GC and GC/MS. The major components identified in the oil of the dried plant (sample A) were (E)-β-farnesene (32.8%), linalool (31.6%), 2-decen-5-olide (15.0%) and linalyl acetate (8.5%). The main constituents found in the oil of the fresh plant (sample B) were linalool (49.3%) and (E)-β-farnesene (34.9%). The compounds 2-decen-5-olide and linalyl acetate were detected only in minute quantities in the fresh plant." \\
[Maia, José Guilherme S., Maria das Graças B. Zoghbi, and Eloisa Helena A. Andrade. "Essential Oils of Aeollanthus suaveolens Matt. ex Spreng." Journal of Essential Oil Research 15.2 (2003): 86-87]

"The volatiles found in the headspace of Aeollanthus suaveolens were analyzed by solid phase microextraction coupled with GC/MS. This led to the identification of the 23 compounds. During steam distillation of the oil of A. Suaveolens, the very fragrant lactones, massoia lactone and δ- decalactone, were concentrated in the residue from which they can easily be extracted for perfumery purposes." \\
[Lupe, Fernanda A., et al. "Fragrant Lactones in the Steam Distillation Residue of Aeollanthus suaveolens Mart. ex Spreng and Analysis by HS-SPME." Journal of Essential Oil Research 19.3 (2007): 271-272]

|{{:linalool_isomers.jpg|}} \\ linalool (present: (S)-(+):(R)-(-) ca 3:2)|{{:massoia_c10.jpg|}} \\ [[https://webbook.nist.gov/cgi/cbook.cgi?ID=C51154962|(R)-(-)-massoilactone]] |

"The essential oils from leaves (sample A) and flowers (sample B) of Aeolanthus suaveolens Mart. ex Spreng were obtained by hydrodistillation and analyzed by GC, GC-MS, and chiral phase gas chromatography (CPGC). Six compounds have been identified from the essential oils, representing ca 94.3 and 93% of the oils corresponding to samples A and B, respectively. The major constituents of samples A and B essential oils were respectively, linalool (34.2%/34.9%), (-)-massoialactone (25.9%/17.0%) and (E)-β-farnesene (25.4%/29.1%). The enantiomeric distribution of the monoterpene linalool was established by analysis on heptakis-(6-O-methyl-2,3-di-O-pentyl)-β-cyclodextrin capillary column." \\
[Simionatto, E., Porto, C., Stüker, C. Z., Dalcol, I. I., & Silva, U. F. D. (2007). Chemical composition and antimicrobial activity of the essential oil from Aeolanthus suaveolens Mart. ex Spreng. Quimica Nova, 30(8), 1923-1925] [[http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S0100-40422007000800024&script=sci_arttext]]