VOLATILE OIL COMPOSITION OF TAIF ROSE

The city of Taif is located in the western region of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This city is characterized by beautiful roses from the species of Rosa damascena. Extraction of rose oil from fresh battles has been done using huge cupric pots. Identification of the chemical components of rose oil has been done with Shimadzu gas chromatograph - mass spectrometer, GC-MS QP 5050. Sixty five compounds have been identified; three of them represent 61.07% of oil components; they are citronellol 31.27%, geraniol 19.52, and 5-methyl octadecane 10.25%. Twelve compounds have percentage between 1 % and 10 %. Fifty compounds are less than 1%.