Extraction of Essential Oil from Sedap malam Flower (Polianthes tuberosa) Using Methanol Solvent

The objectives of this study are to obtain essential oil from Sedap Malam (Tuberose) flower via extraction method and to characterize the physical and chemical properties of the essential oil produced, such as density, rendement, and chemical composition. The extraction process was carried out by using methanol solvent. The ratio between Sedap Malam flower and the methanol solvent was 1:5. After the extraction process of the essential oil finished, the essential oil and the solvent were separated via a simple distillation process. The collected essential oil was then characterized using Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrophotometry (GC-MS) apparatus and Fourier Transform Infra-Red (FT-IR) analysis to investigate the content of the essential oil extracted from Sedap Malam flower. The physical characterization results showed that the essential oil has average rendement value of 12.605 % and density value of 1.0905 g/mL. Additionally, organoleptic test was carried to test the response of respondents toward the color and odor/fragrance of the essential oil extracted from Sedap Malam flower. Most of the responses were included in categories of “Like” and “Really like”. Additionally, for the fragrance, most of response of the respondents for all the four samples of essential oil were in category of “Really like”.