Note

Isobutyl Quinoline

Isobutyl quinoline smells intensely leathery, bitter and green, with earthy, rootlike darkness. Used sparingly, it gives the heart and base a tough leather character alongside moss, tobacco and woods.

In 2 perfumes.

Found in Vento forte and Ancient Leather

Most popular with isobutyl quinoline

The best-known perfumes carrying it anywhere in the pyramid.

Often paired with

Notes that show up next to isobutyl quinoline more often than chance would predict.

Too few perfumes to say.

How it reads

Leather and woody above all. Reaches for aquatic, earthy and smoky far more often than the catalogue as a whole, and rarely for citrus and vanilla.

  • leather
  • woody
  • earthy
  • green
  • smoky
  • animalic
  • balsamic
  • aquatic