Essential Oils and Extraction Technology
We distill Texas and Virginia cedarwood, refine amyris, and supply Haitian vetiver. We also design and build distillation and extraction systems at our plant in Leakey, Texas.
Our areas of business
Ingredients
Cedarwood, amyris, vetiver, fractions and isolates for fragrance and natural-product formulation.
Technologies
Distillation, fractionation, supercritical CO₂, engineering, fabrication, consulting and toll processing.
Fragrance Development
Custom fragrance, private label, packaging and finished-product production through Project Fragrance.
What Happens to the Wood After Distillation?
About half of the spent wood fuels our biomass boilers. The rest is used for mulch, landscaping, animal bedding, and oil-field drilling material.
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Where Does Our Virginia Cedarwood Come From?
Our Virginia cedarwood is distilled from Texas-grown eastern redcedar, including logs the lumber and furniture trades cannot use.
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Who Supplies Our Cedarwood?
About fifty independent landowners and haulers bring Texas juniper to our plant in Leakey.
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Ingredients and technical services for fragrance houses, formulators, brands, and essential-oil producers.
Fragrance houses and perfumers
Cedarwood, amyris, and vetiver oils, with available fractions, samples, and regulatory documentation.
Aroma ingredient makers
Cedarwood fractions and isolates produced on our own columns in Leakey.
Natural product brands
Wood and root notes supported by natural-origin and compliance documentation.
Essential-oil producers
Engineering, fabrication, consulting, and toll processing from a team that operates its own plants.
Distillation, Extraction and Plant Services
We operate continuous and batch stills, vacuum-fractionation columns, and supercritical CO₂ systems—many designed and built by our team. We apply that experience to engineering, fabrication, consulting, and toll processing for other producers.
About Texarome
Our Family’s Distilling History
Our family began distilling essential oils in Haiti in the 1940s and established Texarome in Texas in 1981. Today, Rick and Natalie Boucard lead the plant in Leakey, where they grew up.