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

6-Methylquinoline

Ingredients · Leather & smoke · dry-down

6-Methylquinoline

Say itSIKS-METH-il-KWIN-uh-leen

Dark leather, castoreum and tobacco with sweet tonka warmth and a wet-stone mineral note.

What it is
A molecule made in a lab.
When you smell it
Dry-down: hours later.
What perfumers do with it
Builds castoreum and tobacco reconstructions and deepens oriental and chypre bases, in traces.
Also called
p-Toluquinoline

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