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Table 2.

The most important Chinese rose oil components, together with the ISO 9842:2003 and ISO 25157:2013 specifications.

No	Compounds	Rel.%, as Determined by GC-FID					ISO 9842:2003 ¹	KS	ISO 25157:2013 ²	R
No	Compounds	D1	D2	D3	D4	StDev(D)	ISO 9842:2003 ¹	KS	ISO 25157:2013 ²	R
1.	Ethanol	0.03	0.03	0.02	0.04	0.01	≤2.0	0.09	1.0–3.5	Tr ³.
2.	cis-Rose oxide	0.09	0.06	0.07	0.07	0.01	n.d. ⁴.	0.19	≤0.5	0.11
3.	Linalool	2.13	1.98	2.02	2.06	0.06	≤2.0	1.49	1.0–3.5	1.98
4.	Phenylethanol	2.13	2.07	2.09	2.13	0.03	≤3.5	0.05	≤0.3	0.47
5.	Citronellol	39.01	38.51	36.69	39.09	1.12	20.0–34.0	39.51	40.0–50.0	48.32
6.	Nerol	6.35	6.77	5.94	6.36	0.34	5.0–12.0	2.97	2.0–5.5	5.97
7.	Geraniol	7.55	7.59	7.64	7.88	0.15	15.0–22.0	8.78	6.0–18.0	19.88
8.	Geranyl acetate	0.11	0.11	0.11	0.11	0.00	-n.d.	0.58	2.5–4.5	0.66
9.	Eugenol	0.15	0.14	0.15	0.14	0.01	≤2.0	0.74	n.d.	0.63
10.	Methyl eugenol	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.00	≤3.0	0.81	0.8–2.0	3.11
11.	Heptadecane ⁵	1.59	1.67	1.66	1.66	0.04	1.0–2.5	1.44	n.d.	tr.
12.	Farnesol	0.51	0.57	0.60	0.60	0.04	-n.d.	1.76	2.0–3.5	tr.
13.	Nonadecene	4.51	4.28	4.27	4.38	0.11	-n.d.	0.34	n.d.	tr.
14.	Nonadecane	11.82	11.08	10.94	10.87	0.44	8.0–15.0	n.d.	n.d.	tr.
15.	Eicosane	0.84	0.80	0.79	0.80	0.02	n.d.	0.12	n.d.	tr.
16.	Heneicosane	7.05	6.71	6.56	5.63	0.61	3.0–5.5	1.49	0.6–2.0	0.49
17.	Tricosane	2.33	2.21	1.67	2.10	0.29	n.d.	1.54	0.6–2.0	1.30
18.	Pentacosane	0.33	0.46	0.39	0.38	0.05	n.d.	0.21	n.d.	0.46
19.	Heptacosane	0.18	0.18	0.13	0.17	0.02	n.d.	<0.05	n.d.	0.12

Remarks: ¹—International standard for R. damascena, produced in Bulgaria [31]; ²—International Standard for Kushui rose, produced in China [14]; ³ tr.—traces <0.01%; ⁴ n.d.—no data in the standard; ⁵—co-eluting with 2-Pentadecanone.