A Study on the Application of Electronic Nose Coupled with DFA and Statistical Analysis for Evaluating the Relationship between Sample Volumes versus Sensor Intensity of Agarwood Essential Oils Blending Ratio

^1-4 Natural Products Division, Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM), 52109 Kepong Selangor, Malaysia
⁵ Forestry and Environmental Division, Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM), 52109 Kepong Selangor, Malaysia

^* Corresponding author: sahrim@frim.gov.my

Abstract

The exquisite agarwood oils are primary used for perfumery industries either as pure essential oils or in a perfume base. Commonly, Agarwood oils are extracted from low grade 100% agarwood chips via distillation processes and the extracted oil is called as pure agarwood essential oil which containing 100% of extracted material. In perfumery industry, the agarwood pure oils are often blend with other essential oils such as geranium, sandalwood, gurjum balsam, jasmine and Ylang ylang to create rich, complex and pleasant oils compared to pure Agarwood oils smell alone that may not suit all users preferences. To dates, agarwood oil quality assessment is typically carried out manually via human olfactory system which produces different results and inconsistency from traders and buyers. From the results, multiple linear regression analysis used to run the multiple regression prediction models using combination of 11 sensors shown better results by increasing the R² value from 0.674 to 0.915 and the RMSE value from 14.65% to 6.80% compared to single regression prediction models using sensor LY2/G. The sensors intensity values from multiple sensors are showing a strong correlation to the volume of the B1 in the blended samples (M11~M20) as the ratio of B1 is increased.