Short answer: Yes!Supercritical fluid is a “tunable” solvent, meaning...
Manipulate the pressure and change the density. Change the density, and you change the solvating power.
Change the solubility characteristics of supercritical CO2 to suit your needs.
Sunflower seeds? Yes.
Lavender? Yes.Vanilla? Yes.
Coffee beans? Yes.
Cinnamon? Yes.
Ginger? Yes.
Jasmine? Yes.
Kava Kava? Yes.
Patchouli? Yes.
Rose Hip Seeds? Yes.
St. John’s Wort? Yes. …and the list goes on and on.
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Exactly agreeing with you. Still most people/ companies especially perfumers I think still working on conventional steam distillation/ solvent extraction.
And the list above will always expands-- Black Pepper, Cardamom, Ambrette, Holy basil, tobacco, seabuckthon etc...
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