Bright Night
Avon (1954)

one of the best Avons, soapy and lovely then gets a little aldehyde/chypre then dries down to a powdery, sweet vintage

I stumbled upon a full bottle of this at an antique shop, with its charming lucite cap with glitter embedded in it and a cute dangling label. When I sniffed it and applied some, I could not believe how much it resembled Opium, which came out nearly 25 yrs later. It's a very spicy, sharp oriental, along the lines of Opium & Cinnabar. I'm now kind of annoyed that Opium was such a runaway success when I can see that the scent itself was not particularly original - it had already been done 25 yrs previously by little Avon! I guess sometimes in the perfume world, a beautiful accord becomes lost and then recycled again and again through the decades.