A dark, animalic-leather aroma with a distinctly phenolic, quinoline-like character — reminiscent of birch tar and old leather bindings. Dries down dry, smoky, and slightly fecal-earthy, giving deep animalic warmth to leather and chypre bases.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1300.
Colorless or pale yellowish liquid.
Slightly soluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Rather rough or harsh-caramellic-honey-like, sweet odor with discrete animal character.
The material resembles para-Methylquinoline with respect to odor, but it has not become nearly as well known or popular in perfumery.
Produced by reduction of Quinoline with Tin and Hydrochloric acid, or with Hydrogen in presence of a catalyst.