A powerful, dry leathery aroma with a distinct smoky, tarry facet reminiscent of birch tar and burnt rubber. Underneath there is an earthy, almost animalic quinoline character that lends a naphthalenic, ink-like nuance. Extremely tenacious and diffusive — used at trace levels to build leather and chypre accords.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 220.
Almost colorless oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Tobacco-like, also Nicotine-like, sweet-amine-type odor, not as unpleasant as that of 2-secondary-Butylquinoline.
Of very little interest to the perfumer, beyond that of being a possible impurity in certain commercial lots of iso-Butylquinoline.