The invention discloses a method for extracting essential oil and headspace volatile of arabian jasmine flowers. The method comprises the steps of distilling, condensing, oil water separating, adsorbing, primary rectifying concentrating, alcohol precipitating, secondary rectifying concentrating and the like. According to the method, in a vacuum state, vapor is adopted to distill the essential oil of the arabian jasmine flowers, distilling temperature is reduced, distilling time is shortened, the use rate of equipment is improved, the quality and yield of the essential oil of a product are improved, the production cost is reduced, and the technical problems of the existing traditional solvent method and supercritical carbon dioxide method are overcome. The headspace volatile of the arabian jasmine flowers is obtained by concentrating of a rectifying tower, and compared with the existing reduced pressure distillation, the method has the advantages that the loss of easy-to-volatile headspace volatile component is reduced, and the purity of the headspace volatile can be improved. By using the method in the invention to extract the essential oil and headspace volatile of the arabian jasmine flowers, the yields are respectively 0.23-0.28% and 5.5-6.0% and the yields of the respective components are obviously improved.