Profiles of volatile compounds from nine new hybrids obtained by controlled crossings on olive Chemlali cultivar and Mediterranean varieties.

Virgin olive oil is a unique oil that can be consumed directly without any refining process. This particularity is due to the exceptional quality and flavour formed by the presence of more than 100 volatile compounds. Nine new hybrids obtained by controlled crossing of the Chemlali and seven ancient Mediterranean varieties cultivated in the same orchard under identical agronomic and pedoclimatic conditions were characterised by their main volatile compounds quantified by dynamic headspace-gas chromatography-MS.