Study of the aerosol fragrances of eugenol derivatives in Cananga odorata using diffuse reflectance infrared Fourier transform spectroscopy and gas chromatography.

The purpose of this study was to develop and test a diffuse reflectance infrared Fourier transform spectroscopy (DRIFTS) method, a fast and non-destructive method without extraction, and compare it with the standard gas chromatography (GC) method currently used. A micro-orifice uniform deposit impactor (MOUDI) was used to sample all the size distributions of the aerosol particles of essential oils to investigate the relation between size distributions and the indoor concentration distributions of ylang essential oils. Correlation coefficients for DRIFTS and GC were 0.