Patent ID: 11872303
Assignee: CHANEL PARFUMS BEAUTE
Field: Pharmaceuticals (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC A  Y | IPC A

Claim 5:
6. The process according to claim 1, wherein the process comprises at least the following steps:
i) drying Gardenia jasminoides flowers either under the sun or under vacuum at a temperature to obtain dried Gardenia jasminoides flowers; milling the dried Gardenia jasminoides flowers to obtain a powder of Gardenia jasminoides flowers;
ii) extracting the powder of Gardenia jasminoides flowers with supercritical CO2 at a temperature included between 40 and 80° C. and at a pressure included between 25 and 50 MPa, over 30 minutes to 6 hours, in the presence of an oil solvent, with a ratio by weight of dried powdered flowers to oil solvent from 1:5 to 1:20;
iii) evaporating CO2 by lowering the pressure to 7.4 MPa or less;
iv) optionally adding an alcohol flow in order to collect the mixture of powder of Gardenia jasminoides flowers and solvent, and then evaporation of said alcohol to obtain an oil extract of Gardenia jasminoides flowers; and
v) clarifying the oil extract of Gardenia jasminoides flowers.