# Analysis of the Naturally Aged Scented Components of [PERSON]'s _House of Hope_
## 3 Results  
### Control Spices  
Figure 3 shows the results from HS-SPME-GCMS analysis of a select group of control spices: cardamom, clove, ginger, licorice root, nutmeg, peppermint, thymme, and turmeric. Though often more than one peak was used to positively identify a spice, the marker compound peak, identified in Table 1, needed to be present to positively identify that material in an unknown. The marker compound peak was either the most intense peak by area for some spices, including cardamom, nutmeg, peppermint, and thymme, or the most unique peak in the chromatogram, as seen for clove, ginger, licorice root, and turmeric. The control spices, marker identification peaks from HS-SPME-GCMS, chemical formulae, and elution times are summarized in Table 1. Table 2 summarizes a list of other compounds noted in each of the eight control spices.  
\begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{l c c c} \hline \hline \multirow{2}{*}{**Spice Analyzed**} & **Marker Compound(s) from HS-SPME-GCMS** & **Chemical Formula** & **GCMS Elution Time** \\  & **(H\(\mathbf{S}\)-SPME-GCMS)** & & **(Minutes)** \\ \hline _Andrographis_ & 1-Butanol & C\({}_{4}\)H\({}_{10}\)O & 5.2 \\ Anise seed & Anethelo & C\({}_{10}\)H\({}_{22}\)O & 16.1 \\ Black pepper & Caryophyllene/D-Limonene & C\({}_{15}\)H\({}_{24}\)/C\({}_{10}\)H\({}_{16}\) & 18.3/12.1 \\ Cardamom & \(\alpha\)-Terpinyl acetate & C\({}_{22}\)H\({}_{20}\)O\({}_{2}\) & 17.0 \\ Chamomile & Farnesene & C\({}_{15}\)H\({}_{24}\) & 18.3 \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
\end{table}
Table 1: Control spices analyzed with HS-SPME-GCMS, their identifying chemical markers using the analytical approach described here, the chemical formulae of the identifying chemical markers, and the GCMS elution times.  
\begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{c c c c} \hline \hline
**S price Analyzed** & \begin{tabular}{c} **Marker Compound(s) from** \\ **HS-SPME-GCMS** \\ \end{tabular} & \
\begin{tabular}{c} **Chemical Formula** \\ **(Minutes)** \\ \end{tabular} &
\begin{tabular}{c} **GCMS Elution Time** \\ **(Minutes)** \\ \end{tabular} \\ \hline Cinnamon & Cinnamaldehyde & C\({}_{0}\)H\({}_{8}\)O & 16.1 \\ Clove & Eugenl & C\({}_{10}\)H\({}_{12}\)O\({}_{2}\) & 17.1 \\ Coriander & Linalool & C\({}_{10}\)H\({}_{18}\)O & 13.1 \\ Cumin & Cuminaldehyde & C\({}_{10}\)H\({}_{12}\)O & 15.6 \\ Eucalyptus & Eucalyptusptol & C\({}_{10}\)H\({}_{18}\)O & 12.1 \\ Ginger & \(\alpha\)-Curcumene & C\({}_{15}\)H\({}_{22}\) & 18.8 \\ Licorice root & Isoborneol & C\({}_{10}\)H\({}_{18}\)O & 14.4 \\ “Mint” (spearmint) & Carvone & C\({}_{10}\)H\({}_{12}\)O & 15.5 \\ Nutmeg & Terpinen-4-ol & C\({}_{10}\)H\({}_{18}\)O & 14.6 \\ Peppermit & dl-Menthol & C\({}_{10}\)H\({}_{20}\)O & 14.5 \\ Red sandalwood (_Petrocarpus soquaxii_) & \(\beta\)-Eudesmol & C\({}_{15}\)H\({}_{20}\)O & 21.3 \\ Red sandalwood (_Petrocarpus santalinus_) & \(\beta\)-Eudesmol & C\({}_{15}\)H\({}_{26}\)O & 21.3 \\ “Sandalwood” & Amberonne & C\({}_{16}\)H\({}_{26}\)O & 21.4 \\ Thyme & Thymol & C\({}_{10}\)H\({}_{14}\)O & 16.0 \\ Turmeric & aR-Turmerone & C\({}_{15}\)H\({}_{22}\) & 21.2 \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
\end{table}
Table 1: _Cont._  
Figure 3: Examples of HS-SPME-GCMS spectra from eight control spices analyzed in this study. (**a**) Cardamom. (**b**) Clove. (**c**) Ginger. (**d**) Licorice root. (**e**) Nutmeg. (**f**) Peppermit. (**g**) Thyme. (**h**) Turmeric. Compounds indicated in each spectrum with an asterisk were identified as the marker compound to identify the spice in the unknown powders and beads. All other peaks are identified by their index number; the chemical compounds are identified in Table 2.