Palmarosa Oil is an essential oil of Palmarosa plant. Palmarosa or Indian Rosha which is also known by its botanical name Cymbopogon martini is a grass species from lemon grass genus. It is a wild grass with long slender stems, terminal flowering tops and grass like leaves. The leaves of Palmarosa possess rose like smell which has given the plant this name. The plant is harvested before flowering and then it is dried for at least one week. The Palmarosa oil is extracted from this dried grass by steam distillation process. Useful components like myrcene, linalool, geraniol, geranyl acetate, dipentene and limonene are extracted from it.