Acquired

Puredistance 2013 Parfum

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Black No. 05

Name: Black No. 05 Parfum
Brand: Puredistance

Puredistance Black No. 05 is a Parfum launched in 2013, created by Antoine Lie. Black No. 05 opens with Bergamot and Incense, settles into a heart of Spicy, Oud, and Rose, and dries down to a base of Smoke, Musk, Leather, and Amber. Puredistance's Black No. 05 carries an Acquired verdict, a leather-led wear.

Antoine Lie's deliberately concealed Puredistance composition. A spicy oriental leather wrapped around an undisclosed core - smoke, oud, rose and a fougere skeleton readable beneath the dark. Whispers rather than shouts. Twelve-hour wear on skin.

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Dark
Refined
Leather
Evening
Statement

Profile

Composition

Timeline

Showing: Overall Blend

Accords

Leather

100%

Smoky

85%

Oriental

80%

Woody

75%

Warm Spicy

70%

Incense

65%

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Performance

Longevity

Beast (10+h)

Projection

Moderate

Intensity

Strong

Mood

Mood Energising

Calming

Character Playful

Serious

Sentiment Uplifting

Brooding

When To Wear

Best Seasons

Best For:

Fall Winter

A leather-smoke-incense oriental at parfum strength sits firmly in cold-weather territory. Winter is the peak fit; fall close behind. Spring and summer expose the smoky leather as too heavy for warmth and humidity.

Best Occasions

Best For:

Date Formal

Also Works:

Office

Reads as formal evening fragrance at its peak - dinners, opera, ceremonial wear, dark suits and dark dresses. Date wear is excellent for close-quarters intimacy. Office tolerance is moderate (the dark character can read too statement for corporate); casual and sport wear are wrong fits.

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About

Black No. 05 is Antoine Lie's 2013 composition for Puredistance, the Austrian niche house whose entire identity is built around exhibition-grade perfume oil concentration and minimalist presentation. The conceit of Black is unusual: as a deliberate part of the brief, Puredistance does not disclose the ingredient list. The brand position is that Black 'treasures the beauty of the unknown' - the wearer experiences a fragrance rather than reads a pyramid. From community consensus and Antoine Lie's own track record, the composition reads as a spicy oriental leather built on a modern fougere skeleton. The opening is incense-led - a sweet, deep, slightly smoky entrance with bergamot lifting it just enough to keep it from feeling funereal. The heart introduces rose against agarwood and a calibrated spice accord, with the rose-oud combination giving the fragrance its 'whispering' character that reviewers consistently mention. The drydown is where Black settles into its defining identity - dark leather, dry vetiver, a curl of smoke, soft amber and musk underneath. Lie's calibration is the technical accomplishment: the oud-vetiver pairing is precision-balanced so neither dominates and the leather stays supple rather than industrial. Performance is the headline strength - twelve hours plus on most skin, with projection that is intimate rather than booming, sitting close to the wearer in a way that demands proximity to be appreciated. The character is firmly evening and cold-weather, ceremonial-wear and formal-dinner-coded, with a quiet rather than statement reading despite the apparent darkness of the brief. Date wear is excellent for occasions where being noticed at hugging distance matters more than across a room. Black sits in the same conversation as Tom Ford Tuscan Leather, Knize Ten, and the legacy Eau d'Hermes Bel Ami, but at parfum concentration and with the deliberate Puredistance restraint. The honest caveat: at £200+ for 60ml, this asks luxury commitment for a fragrance that does not announce itself - the projection-seeker wallet is better served elsewhere.