abstract the chemical composition of the essential oils obtained from the flowers and leaves of salvia sclarea l. (lamiaceae) cultivated in slovak republic have been studied by gc and gc/ms methods, which resulted in the identification of 34 and 23 components, respectively. the major constituents in the flower oil were linalool (18.9%), linalyl acetate (13.7%), sclareol (15.7%), -terpineol (6.5%), germacrene d (5.0%) and geranyl acetate (4.3%), while the major components in the leaf oil were germacrene d (28.8%), bicyclogermacrene (12.5%), spathulenol (10.1%), caryophyl-lene oxide (6.2%) and -copaene (6.0%).