Not drawn yet: a drawing of what it smells like.

2-Isobutyl quinoline

Ingredients · Leather & smoke · dry-down

2-Isobutyl quinoline

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Soft yet persistent weedy, mossy-rooty leather, gentler than IBQ.

What it is
A molecule made in a lab.
When you smell it
Dry-down: hours later.
What perfumers do with it
Supports moss, root, patchouli and leather notes in traces; powerful in chypres and fougères.
Also called
Isobutyl quinoline-2

Not on the label of any of the 232 perfumes read so far.