A powerful dry leather aromachemical with a distinctly animalic, almost fecal undertone at high concentration. Diluted, it opens into a suede-like, slightly earthy and tobacco-tinged facet with a quiet powdery warmth. Signature 'new leather jacket' character used as the backbone of modern leather accords.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1285.
Colorless or very pale straw-colored, oily liquid.
Very slightly soluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Sweet-woody, nut-like, earthy and mildly medicinal-leathery odor of considerable tenacity.
This material has found some use in perfume compositions, e.g. in bouquetting of Vetiver notes, in artificial Vetiver oils, in Chypre and Tabac-type fragrances, and in many novel fragrances, often with Oakmoss, Vetiver, Coumarins and musks.
Produced by hydrogenation of alpha-iso-Butylquinoline with Nickel catalyst.