Dans la Nuit

I sampled Splendiris (Dusita) the other day and it reminded me so much of Dans la Nuit that I had to come and put my 5 cents in. A friend of mine used this in the 80’s and - as I always raved about it when she wore it - ended up giving her bottle to me (oh my God that stunning blue bottle!!). Funny enough, as much as I liked it on her, I could never decide if I liked the actual fragrance....it combined the most effervescent aldehydic top with a slick, metallic iris, dewy violets, waxy ylang and jasmine, candied flower petals and just enough skank (civet) to tie it all together. It was also laced with something incredibly sweet, but not in the fluffy, comforting, gourmand way as we like now. The sweetness was more electric and fluorescent, it crackled like neon light. This must have smelled so modern when it came out in the 20’s! I don’t remember it as being particularly romantic at all. To me, it didn’t speak of exotic gardens under the moonlight. It was a world in itself. Light and dark at the same time, both floral and electric, both austere and way, way too much.......but forever enigmatic.

I have some bottles of both the original formulation (EDT) and the new (parfum). Both are quite lovely initially, but the new version falls flat after just a few minutes. To me, the vintage Dans la Nuit has a Worth 'signature' that I can also smell in vintage Je Reviens. I can imagine someone wearing Je Reviens by day and then topping up with Dans la Nuit for the evening. Unlike Je Reviens, Dans la Nuit is not heavy on the aldehydes and salicylates, therefore it is less 'powdery'. I don't notice the woody or oriental aspects that other reviewers here mention. To me, Dans la Nuit is a sweet, rich floral with its sweetness possibly provided by prominent jasmine and ylang-ylang notes. In my opinion, two similar modern fragrances are Il Bacio by Borghese and Vivid by Liz Claiborne.

Dans la Nuit feels romantic. It seems to unfurl like a night-blooming blossom under the light of the moon, warm air and a cool breeze. The aldehydes twinkle rather than beam, the violet, carnation and muguet in the bouquet glint like labradorite. The iris is powdery and hazy. The woods are "lovely, dark, and deep." If L'Heure Bleue is a crepuscular reflection, Dans la Nuit is a midnight tryst. It's gripping and urgent, whispering "hold me tighter," it's meant for a cheek-to-cheek rendezvous, long before the age of swipe right-swipe left: one had to swipe a curtain and get a sneak peak of ecstasy in a speakeasy where a come hither finger matches the rhythm of a glistening finger wave coiffure. Recommended wearing accompaniment for viewing Bright Lights.

Dans La Nuit was actually first launched in 1924, relaunched in 1985 and then again in 2000. It is a Woody Oriental and one of a kind. Just an incredible perfume. It conjures images of dancing beneath the stars at midnight in a luxurious garden. I had it many years ago and have spent years trying to find it again.

smells like drinking a hot toddy in a rose garden at night, then dries into a lovely warm powder

lovely floral reminiscent of bal a versailles without the powder and civet

Dans la Nuit was launched in 1924. Worth clearly made an effort to evoke the nighttime with their marketing/packaging; I looked at the ads online. I think they were right, and that this perfume is for deepest night. I have a mini of the parfum apparently from the 70s. The dark blue glass is in the minimalist, art deco design of a cuboid with 2 rounded sides and white rectangular cap, not the Lalique sphere. In a way, I like this design better; it's welcome in a collection that doesn't already include a dark blue bottle or minimalist-art-deco. I couldn't give it up no matter the scent. . . But, ahhhhhhh the scent. . . In my mid-twenties I was a marketing executive for our city's symphony. Our orchestra was very good, the hall renowned for its acoustics... and the concerts were populated by the elderly. I never wore scent to these concerts, because there was already a heavy amount of perfume in the theatre. If I'd had Dans la Nuit back then, though, I'd have been one of the fragrant ones. My trick to this perfume is applying between 2 and 3 hours before leaving home or attending a late-night event. This *is* a midnight perfume, and I love tarasapphire's image of dancing in a garden. Dans la Nuit, just like you, needs a lot of time to get ready for a big night out. Apply just 2 dabs after dinner, because eating during the opening experience of this perfume would make everyone at the table uncomfortable including yourself. I repeat - Dans la Nuit is not a dinner date perfume.... is *any* perfume, really? (I guess I'm not overly fond of the dinner date - I like walks on the beach, baseball games, concerts and art galleries, lol!) The art of wearing perfume can be subtle... the seducer... or any person who *uses* scent for certain aims... might make a note of the exact number of minutes it takes for a perfume to drydown on his or her skin... As Bob Dylan once said, "know your song well before you start singing," I would say know your perfume before you start wearing. ;) The first thing to know about this perfume is that it's a floral. Perhaps the Eau de Toilette is woodier than the parfum? The latter has a wood accord but to a lesser degree than the floral ones. It isn't oriental, but like missveronica9 says - it's rich. Almost like how Nahema, by Guerlain, is rich, although Nahema is oriental (and more beautiful than Dans la Nuit, yet they are equally evocative). The funny thing about Dans la Nuit is that when I think of it to myself, I'm always calling it "*Danse* la Nuit" - Dance the Night! Who would I be in the 1920s wearing this? Would I be a mild-mannered, white bread wife-and-mother-type, living in an area of the city that had just put up these new-fangled electric streetlights, for whom this bottle served as a reminder that a completely alternative, new and mysterious lifestyle existed out there "in the night"... and scared me if I thought about it too much? Would I be a prostitute, wearing this because that's what all the regular johns were giving us tiger lilies those days as a symbol of newly celebrated licentiousness, all the while feeling threatened by the modern, unmarried ingenues who were now "giving out" sex and flirtatious companionship to men for free!?!? Or would I simply be as I am now, an average woman working hard to build a career in the arts, elated to receive a new perfume to explore? That was fun! Dans la Nuit isn't the most beautiful perfume I own, and it doesn't make me feel comforted when I'm home alone. When it dries down, it does make me want to put on my best dress and get outside... find a garden... find a partner... find a party... find the music and dance the way we danced in 1924 and still dance today.

I own as well the 5 fragrance set by Worth, and I somehow managed to interpret the Love Poem written using this scent. Dans la nuit is the one I always begin with, followed by Vers le jour, Sans Adieu, the beautiful Je reviens and Vers Toi. I see an overwhelming Middle Eastern Garden, in a warm summer night, and two lovers. It is almost like the richness of the fragrance imposes the existence of not one- but two souls in the beautifully balanced composition. The sweetness of the fragrance is close to the one of skin and sweat, therefore the comparisson with a passionate night between two lovers. I can feel why some people see it as Oriental, as it reminds me of stories of One Thousand And One Nights. It is very warm and round, with a creamy, almost velvety texture, and a touch of nostalgic luxury. I personally find the top citric notes very subtle, fading just seconds after applying the perfume. The muguet opens the floral blend (without showing much of its personality), a very romantic heart of Roses and Carnation. Jasmine notes build a bridge between the middle notes and the very carnal, animalic base notes.(the paracresol in the jasmine might be the one giving the sweat feeling, while musk represents the skin). Overall, there is a golden, amber sweetness that gives this fragrance its character and age. I do not like wearing it in particular, but I find smelling it before Vers le jour very helpful in amplifying the experience of the secons.

I just purchased a bottle of the 2000 version -- a blind buy because I love my vintage Worth Je Reviens. I get the Maurice Blanchet nose, but only slightly. Maybe if I didn't know this was his fragrance, I wouldn't notice because I wouldn't be expecting it. It's that subtle. Since I don't have the 1920s or the 1980s version to compare this to, I can only comment on what's in my bottle. It's pleasant and complex, but it doesn't possess the uniqueness or the staying power of Je Reviens. Upon first spray, I had the sense that the sillage would be heavy, as would the longevity, but neither is true for me. Funny thing is that I can still smell it on the coat I wore this morning, but on my skin... it's gone. The drydown is much more floral than I expected, and much lighter as well. The spice note is just right, and while I haven't owned Niki de St. Phalle in a very long time, there is something in Dans la Nuit that reminds me of that elusive scent. It could be a single note, but there's something there! My experience is similar to missveronica9 --I also don't get the woody or Oriental aspects of this fragrance, nor do I get the heavy aldehydes of Je Reviens. If the vintage version is a lot better, it must be just spectacular, because I'm very pleased with my bottle of Dans la Nuit. It's uncommonly beautiful and hard to analyze as a result, like trying to explain why a calla lily is beautiful. It just is. And the lily doesn't last, either.

Described as "old lady" style by many, I adore many perfumes like this because I was lucky enough as a little girl to have a great-aunt who loved perfume, and loved to share it with me. She had a lot of stuff like this, so I had a seriously fun childhood. And I like Dans la Nuit very much; rather than spraying it on, I have a mini bottle that I use for dabbing it on, which seems to make it easier for me to analyze and enjoy the perfume when it's a bit more concentrated in one spot. This is a soft(er), very traditional/classic floral, carnation, orris root and ylang being prominent, a very French perfume: I think prettier in the vintage formula which I have in the mini, at least to wear. I love the drydown of this perfume so much because the vetiver seems to tame the vanilla right down to where I want it, like magic. I love to binge on early Hollywood movies: dab on my Dans la Nuit, and get my Bette Davis on.

The first song of Worth's love story. Powdery, aldehyde floral, light oriental, in the same category as Rochas Byzance (1987). Sweet and sour waxy ylang-ylang, slightly pungent clove. On a thin layer of white cream-woody amber base, spread the fragments of rose and jasmine, with iris fragrance as the base, the powder mist of violet and carnation successfully blurs the boundaries of the three-tone connection, civet and tonka bean accentuate With an oriental atmosphere, the musk has a soft texture. Dans La Nuit is hazy and beautiful, imagining that the night is dark, and I feel like I am in the twilight. The fragrance of Dans La Nuit is dense and delicate, typical French nostalgia. The original version was born in 1924, which reminds me of the lost tradition of the perfume industry, which is the greatest value of Dans La Nuit.

I had to delete my previous review. I made a huge mistake sampling this fragrance when I still recovering from an illness. I thought I was better but I wasn't. I learned a lesson, never sample perfume when you are ill. Being ill distorts your sense of smell. This perfume reminds me of the 70's. I had a lot of teachers who smelled like this fragrance. It smells like carnation/rose soap and the dusting powder that goes w/ the soap. It is subtle not as overpowering as Guerlain L'Heure Bleue. That one took awhile for me to understand. This one is easier to be around, not as sad. This is a soft easygoing powdery, soapy, floral that is very vintage. If you want a perfume that is a part of history but one that you can wear try this little gem. I got a small bottle for $8 on FragranceNet.

My boyfriend at the time bought me a Dans La Nuit giftset in the 1980's which I had really liked, but had forgotten about it for all these years until I found it on Ebay while scrolling. It was new old stock and a safe buy for a 10 ml spray for $13. It was a wonderful reunion when I put it on after my bath - it was such a nighttime dream and evokes a quiet sensuality that is so beautiful. I am heavily influenced by the design and color of the bottle, so was sad that this is just a clear bottle. I plan to purchase the vintage cobalt glass bottle by Lalique and fill it with a few of these inexpensive bottles from Ebay.

I get florals and aldehydes in the beginning along with orris root. there's something thickly floral and sweet about this-i believe i am getting mostly ylang ylang and lily with some violet and rose. after being on the skin longer i finally get the sense of carnation...i think i am getting vanilla and tonka as well. the orris or something in here is super buttery, and there is a subtle animalic aspect underneath. overall it smells vintage and very creamy to me.

Fresh aldehydes greet you at first spray, it is a pleasant surprise that they don’t give a chemical blast which some aldehydes do on cheaper fragrances. Then there are white florals, fruity citrus and a lovely sweet amber. It gradually becomes soft and powdery. This distinctively has a ‘vintage aroma’. It feels like a ladies scent, elegant, and mature.

I don't get any old lady vibes at all from this after sniffing all kinds of vintage chypres. This is soft but strong, sweet but not cloying, electric but natural. Interesting!

This one is awful. I get headache when I smell it. I've bought a mini package of 5 worth perfumes and they smell all bad except je reviens. Waste of money!

Fresh cut sudsy-soap carnations with violet and iris powder, that slowly fade to a sweet sandalwood musk. Stays within waltzing distance and lasts the evening, but not “into the night.” I was expecting something more daring. Worth was baring shoulders and ankles in the 1920’s, and though Dans la Nuit has some cinnamon and vanilla and civet hidden in the florals, it seems too subtle for a fashion house that was setting trends of the time.

No one could hate the expression, "old lady" more than I but Dans la Nuit is a perfume for the older woman. The notes are lovely: predominantly lily of the valley with supporting notes of violet and big smooth roses. Such notes should have made this faintingly feminine. But Dans la Nuit was formulated with such a heavy hand it overwhelms. It takes maturity and self-possession to wear a fragrance that will make you noticed and remembered. If you are young, this is one for the future, when you reach that point where you think there is nothing new to experience. A pleasant reminder that there is always something new to discover in the world of perfume!

I do not like the modern formulation. The florals are sparse. It's a dry, dusty, soapy iris/orris thing with aldehydes, sandalwood, and amber. It doesn't smell horrible or anything, but it's little more than a base. I had a similar experience with Je Reviens a few years back, the current formula is not terrible, but it's insubstantial. My vintage bottle from the 60s smells gorgeous. I would advise only buying vintage from this company.

I have received a 10ml bottle of this in the modern edition 'love poem' set of 5 perfumes by the same Worth 'nose'. My main impression of this is 'brown lemonade'. I don't know if you can get this in other countries but we did as children in Northern Ireland and it has a very distinct smell of its own. It also reminds me very much of Max Factor Le Jardin D'Amour (the black one) and of Rochas Byzance. Was thinking this was one of the set I might keep but unfortunately after a while that plasticy smell I noted in Je Reviens started to come out. Hmmm... Update: No, I actually like this, it's the first 'spicy' scent that feels right on me, just been outside walking the cat and kept catching lovely whiffs of it. The true test for me, wearing a perfume out in the fresh air.

Blue salty carnations. I get a burst blue salty carnations with some roses, civet, amber, sandalwood, orris, and violets in aldehyde plate. It's like white floral mingles with roses, woods, and aldegyde. The cooler it goes the more soapy it become with lots of raised musk. The bottle is beautiful, and the ad is really presenting the liquid. It settles to white floral aldeehyde with touch animalic. It reminds me a bit of "Byzance" by Rochas and not because of the bottle similarity :) Cute.

Powdery floral, a little thin like many perfumes created in the 1920's. The violet note others praise comes from orris root, which I'm not fond of. Dans la Nuit is stylish, I imagine a pretty young flapper anointing herself as she gets ready for a party. But Dans has something to offer for pretty young or older things now as well. It's a feminine perfume, light enough to be suitable for work and play.

Some parts of Samsara married with L'Heure Bleue. Or should I say Samsara with less woody aspects of Mysore sandalwood and L'Heure Bleue with Violet-Iris-Carnation overdose instead of anis star. This is such a nostalgic and night time perfume 💜

Thank you all for confirming this was first launched in 1924. I thought I was going crazy (or am getting Alzheimer's) when I read 1985. I think it wasn't produced during WWII and then was relaunched in the early 1950's.

I bought this scent because it has a beautiful, exclusive bottle:) The same scent reminds to me racily vintage the floral , Paris-scent. For me this not smell like Samsara but like Nina Ricci scents before 1970.

Huh..... I’ve smelled this so many times and it never clicked that this smells like samsara with a smidge of spice and less ylang Also if you love bois des iles you’ll love this

Sweet and powdery violets. Reminds me of Vintage Givenchy Le De, only Le De is less sweet, drier and much cooler and the iris note stands out more in Le De.

I am wearing vintage Worth Dans la Nuit and it is beautiful! I have less than 10 ml that someone sent me.

Hasn ́t anybody else noticed that this smells very similar to Samsara?

I like this warm scent. It's woody and a little sweet.