Puredistance Black

It´s possible to walk on glowing charcoal, I know people that have done it. Personally I´m not sure if I would like to do it. But if I would, Puredistance Black could serve as my protective talisman. I don´t know if the house of Puredistance needs any further presentation, I have wrote about Puredistance I on the blog earlier: http://perfumenerd.blogspot.se/search?q=puredistance If Puredistance I is a fragrance for weddings (at least that´s my associations), Puredistance Black is a totally different creature, even though both scents have great quality, high class materials and an attentive performance in common. Puredistance has chose not to yet reveal the notes in Puredistance Black, which is both challenging and a little frightening. i smell o lot of things from it, but is not sure which notes are there for real and which I just make up in my imagination. The opening is tart and ripe citruses mixed with spicy notes and I belive I smell at least clove and nutmeg. There is also a crisp element that could be fir. Whatever it is, it brings a dynamic to the fragrance that I find very nice and interesting. A gorgeous mix between warm oriental spicyness and a fresh with fir forests and citrus orchards. Deeper in to the scent there is dryer wood notes and sweet, ripe plums. A substantial dollop of dark honey. Something that smells like coconut or at least a little milky, could be fig also. Trying to detect any flowers in Puredistance Black, on my skin floral notes usually dissapears when put together with strong, spicy and oriental notes, but there could be some roses and maybe carnation in Puredistance Black. There is oudh in here somewhere too, a softspoken and comfy oudh, but I can detect a slightly medical bitterness also. The longer I follow puredistance Black the more complex it becomes, full bodied, smoky, warm, exciting and always re-inventing it self. In it´s nature it lures me further and deeper in, the enchanting notes invites me to solve the mystery of what smells so incredible... good... alluring... sensual and magic. Despite that, Puredistance Black is a soft and skinclose scent. And it unveils it´s lovely fragrance in little, but very pleasant whiffs. When I wear it without trying to evaluate it, it has a lot in common with Puredistance I, provided that it feels like being tucked in in your very own, gentle and caressing cocoon of perfume. Puredistance Black makes me belive that I live in the age of campfires and legends. Gentle glowing coal in an almost brnt down campfire under the night sky. Narrow, lingering alleys trough an old city in night lights. Solar ecplipse and a dark lake under the full moon. Poetry and wild hearts. Love. Adventure. One thousand and one nights. Beauty. Filled of joy with the knowledge that from time to time such a masterpeice perfume comes in my way. Antoine Lie is the nose behind Puredistance Black (he is also the genious behind Etat Libre D'Oranges Secretions Magnifique and Comme Des Garcons Daphne). Puredistance Black is by far my favorite from Puredistance, mostly because it´s very mych right up my alley in style, while Puredistance I is more of an on occation fragrance for me. Puredistance Black is also one of the absolutly best fragarnces I have tried in a long time. It was a true inspiration to try it, in fact so much that I felt like writing again, thank you very much, Puredistance Black.

Puredistance - Puredistance I

Puredistance is an exclusive perfumehouse situated in Vienna, Austria. Puredistance offers three different perfumes, Puredistance I, Antonia and Puredistance M. Anne Buzantian is the nose behind Puredistance I and Antonia, while Roja Dove has created Puredistance M. I have been lucky enough to evaluate Puredistance I.


Sometimes when I encounter a really beautiful perfume I can feel that I lack words to describe it true, but with Puredistance I it´s almost like the other way around. It IS beautiful, but when wearing it I get a current of impressions, associations, thoughts and feelings that is so overwhelming it´s hard to know where to start and where it will end up...


Imagine there was a way of capturing the scent of the Garden of Eden or maybe the Elysium (Elysian)Fields and then put the wonderful fragrance in some kind of big, transcluent bubble. Something like that is what I feel when putting on Puredistance I. I am in a perfect scented bubble, a bubble filled with clean, paradisic air, like the smell of that air, but even better...!


The opening of Puredistance I is airy, light, elusive, vibrant and filled with emotions. I experience the sillage as huge, but never intrusive or heavy, it´s like I wrote before, like the air in the most pleasant garden, but better. At the same time Puredistance I is like a shiled against all surrounding scents and odours, it makes me imagine that this is the way the world smells.


But, how does it smell? The opening is slightly tart with soft citrus notes and a hint of black currant, a smallest dash of greenery and then comes the rose, the most adorable rose scent you can imagine. Roses so gentle that they are sailing on thw wind like a ballon, roses so soft as the most perfect veil, roses in a rosegarden blossoming in the faint light of dusk. Weak, but ever present, soft, but so intoxicating and so incredible romantic it´s hard to imagine, this is roses beyond masterpice, this is roses on the border to miracle...


I have allready decide which perfume to wear when the first of my children gets married. And now, I also know which perfume I should wear if I ever was to be married again (of corse with the same loving man I married almost 22 years ago). As a matter of fact we have talked about renewing our vows, and with Puredistance I it feels even more likely that we´ll do that in the future. Nowadays a lot of people spend really much money on their weddings, and I suggest them to spare a part of that budget for the perfect wedding perfume, Puredistance I.


Puredistance I never gets heavy, sweet, cloying or dominating. Still it has, despite of it´s softness and airyness, an extreme hereness. It´s floats around you as the most perfect cloud, and it does it for hours and hours.


Like some others (but only a few) fragarnces I´ve tried, Puredistance I is a slow perfume. It takes time to warm up and mature on your skin, to caress and enchant. You´ll be accompanied by the sheer and airy notes for a long time, where they eventually become more saturated, slowly colored with golden hues and a serene warmth. The airy rose gets accompanied by the softest, golden and perfect powdery mimosa. Now, the sillage also closes in, become close to skin, sensual and intimate. By now, there is several hours (6-8) since I put on Puredistance I I can almost fool myself that i smell this wonderful for real. In this phase Puredistance I is both very close to skin but also send of little, pleasant whiffs of rosy mimosa, smoth amber and light vetiver.


Puredistance I is so beautyful it deserve only to be worn at the most special occations. As a perfumista I have a big collection of different scents that I can wear depending on mood, occation or color of my clothes. Puredistance I is such a wonderful perfume it somehow deserve to be worh as a signture scent. A perfect scent, loved and totally admired by it´s owner. Puredistance I is really much to beautiful and perfect to be waisted on a volatile perfume nerd!


Puredistance I has a very good, without being disturbing, sillage. The lasting power is more then good, this is a fragrance that evolves slowly and still after more then 12 hours it smells quite strong on me. I think it can last at least for a full 24 hour!


Puredistance I is a must try if you get the chanse, and you must really try it if you´re looking for pure, romantic, beautfiul and well made perfumes. Also if you´re looking for that one perfume for a very special occation, such as wedding, you must give Puredistance I a try!


to me, Puredistance I isn´t an every day scent, but a scent to wear on rare and very special occations, such as wedding anniversery and like. Of course Puredistance I have made me curious to try Antonia and Puredistance M as well. Maybe some of my readers allready have tried any of them?


You can find more information about Puredistance and their wonderful perfumes here:
http://www.puredistance.com/



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