# Puredistance — Puredistance No. 12

> Puredistance No. 12 is Nathalie Feisthauer's modern chypre-floral for the house: powdery, briny, mossy and blue in mood despite its classical floral richness.

## Essence
Puredistance No. 12 is Nathalie Feisthauer's modern chypre-floral for the house: powdery, briny, mossy and blue in mood despite its classical floral richness.
## Scent Profile
The opening sparkles with bergamot, mandarin, cardamom and coriander, plus a saline ambroxan glint. The heart becomes a powdery floral cloud of orris butter, heliotrope, hedione, rose, jasmine, geranium, lily-of-the-valley, orange blossom and osmanthus. Patchouli, oakmoss, vetiver, sandalwood, tonka, vanilla, ambrette and musk form the chypre base.
## Performance
Longevity is excellent but refined. The scent wears as a skin-radiant extrait rather than a room-filling perfume, and it may feel softer than it is.
## Wearing Context
No. 12 works year-round, especially in refined daytime, professional and formal settings. It leans elegant and slightly feminine at first, then becomes more unisex as the chypre base emerges.
## Comparisons & DNA
It connects to vintage chypre-florals and powdery classics while staying modern in texture. Within Puredistance, it is brighter and higher-toned than Rubikona and symbolically completes the Magnificent XII collection.
## Reception
Reception is strongly positive among niche critics, with praise for complexity, blend and Puredistance identity. The familiar caveats are price, quiet projection and the possibility that powder or ambroxan dominates for some wearers.
## Versions & Reformulation
No. 12 is a single composition with no known reformulation. It appears in multiple bottle presentations, including a highly decorative limited 17.5 ml version, but the formula is the same.
## Acquisition Notes
A fresh bottle may need weeks of rest before showing its best balance. Given the cost and the powdery-briny profile, sampling and patience are more important than usual.
A sample gives the citrus, saline brightness, floral heart and mossy base time to show their changing proportions on skin.
## Notable Facts & Lore
- Feisthauer originally presented the scent under the working idea Gold Taffeta.
- The house reserved it for the twelfth numbered slot.
- Its Beauty in Blue nickname rejects sporty-aquatic blue imagery.