Not drawn yet: a drawing of what it smells like.
Ingredients · Leather & smoke · dry-down
Isobutyl quinoline
Say iteye-soh-BYOO-til KWIN-uh-leen
Bitter burnt leather, green-earthy and rooty, with a green-fruit nuance.
- What it is
- A molecule made in a lab.
- When you smell it
- Dry-down: hours later.
- What perfumers do with it
- The classic leather chemical; gives chypres and masculine leathers their dry, bitter hide note.
- Worth knowing
- Its discovery inspired de Laire's Mousse de Saxe base, the leathery heart of Caron's Nuit de Noël.
- Known in
- Nuit de Noël (Caron, 1922)
- Also called
- IBQ; 6-isobutylquinoline
Not on the label of any of the 232 perfumes read so far.
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