Provided are a method that makes it possible to recover a fresh and favorable aroma component from a biological ingredient while reducing the yield of recovering an unfavorable aroma component, as well as an apparatus that can be used in said method. A favorable aroma component is easily, selectively and efficiently recovered from a biological ingredient, not only by recovering a distillate by a conventional steam distillation method, but also by causing that part of aroma component, which passes through as a gas without being condensed at a cooling step, to be recovered in a liquid by gas-liquid contact.
