Roger & Gallet, Night of Delight, 30 ml. or 1 oz. Flacon, Parfum Extrait, 1938, 1950, Paris, France ..

Roger & Gallet is a French perfume house founded by Charles Armand Roger and Charles Martial Gallet in 1862. The history of this house actually begins many years before the company was founded.

In 1695 Giovanni Paolo Feminis 'invents' aqua mirabilis. In 1806 Jean-Marie Farina inherits the formula and opens a perfumery in rue du Faubourg-St-Honore. In 1840 he sells the business to Leonce Collas of Goet et Rifflard, who in 1862 transfers it to his two cousins, Armand Roger and Charles Gallet. They changed the company name to Roger et Gallet.

The company made a name for itself with its luxurious bath soaps, which in 1879 first appeared in their signature round shape, with the crinkled silk paper and seal which are still in use today. In the 21st century, the company maintains its tradition of fragrances based on rare plants and essential oils, in chic and distinctive packaging that recalls the Art Deco era. Roger & Gallet now offers a line of perfumes, scented body products and candles, in a variety of scents for men and women. One of these most famous soaps was and still is Œillet Mignardise, a perennial treasure for all discerning French bathrooms.

Night of Delight is a long-discontinued scent known for a rich, warm profile. It was first launched in 1938. The main accords are spicy, smoky, animalic, oriental, and leathery. Night of Delight is an incredibly rare, vintage formulation, and an exact breakdown of its top, middle, and base notes is missing from modern perfume databases. Because it was released in 1938 and discontinued long ago, the specific botanical ingredients were never formally logged in the way modern fragrances are tracked today.

This perfume is likely to contained warm, heavy spices of the 1930s era, such as clove, cinnamon, or cumin, as well as smoky & leathery notes that would indicate the use of birch tar, styrax, or tobacco elements to give it a dark, mysterious depth. It also contains distinct animalic and oriental notes which points toward heavy base ingredients common in vintage "amber" perfumes, such as musk, civet, ambergris, or benzoin.

During the late 1930's, "Night of Delight" .. which was originally named Nuit de Délices in French .. was formulated to be a heavy, seductive evening fragrance. It belongs to the classic, powdery-sensual family that smells very warm, deeply resinous, and deeply nostalgic.

Offered here is an incredibly rare bottle of this beautiful fragrance. It has been previously opened, but barely used .. A real treasure ..