# Isobutyl Quinoline

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Isobutyl Quinoline (Pyralone) is the classic leather chemical. Its discovery led the great De Laire company to invent the famed Mousse de Saxe base (our Saxon Moss) as it was considered too difficult to use alone. In the early years of the golden age of perfumery, this material was considered mossy, but nowadays it is more often seen as leathery. This illustrates how our perceptions of scent have changed over the decades. Traces to 0.5% were key to many of the great 1970s – 1990s masterpiece gentlemen's perfumes and even today a textured and long lasting dry down is often created with small amounts of this marvelous material. Isobutyl Quinoline is extremely strong and seldom needed above 0.5… — Fraterworks

## How the catalogue uses it
- Appears in 3 formulas.
- Dose: 0.60% to 2.01%, average 1.23%.
- Most at home in: Gourmand.
- Usually weighed alongside: Safraleine, Cedramber, Coumarin, Iso E Super, Suederal LT, Myrrh EO.


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