Isobutyl quinoline, what is it?
Isobutyl quinoline is a component of artificial origin manufactured in the laboratory. Also known as IBQ, this molecule can be used in the perfume industry to bring a leather facet to fragrances.

The use of isobutyl quinoline in the field of perfumery
It should be known that few perfumers integrate this synthetic component in their juice. Indeed, its smell is very powerful, brute, and it must be able to tame it to exploit it without false steps in a juice. The perfumers who venture there must have the necessary distance to find the ingredients that will succeed in wrapping it with tact and elegance. Its scents are certainly leather, warm, and evoke the earth, the burned, but not only. This molecule also gives the fragrances green notes. Isobutyl quinoline works well with oriental notes, woody notes, or chypre notes.

The perfumes that release leather chords
One of the precursors in the use of isobutyl quinoline is the Robert Piguet house. In 1944, she launched her "Bandit", a feminine fragrance of the chypre family. At the head, galbanum and ylang are essential, then the heart composed of leather and jasmine settles. Finally, the vetiver, the oak moss and the patchouli make up the bottom of the fragrance. Then followed the feminine fragrance "Cabochard" of Grès, released in 1959: a chypre juice with leather and green accents of isobutyl quinoline and galbanum. At Givenchy, there is "Gentleman", a masculine fragrance, as the name suggests, with woody notes accompanied by a chypre facet.