Occur!

When I was a teenage boy-early to mid 80s, our neighbor across the street was an Avon rep and divorced mother of two, and she used to give me samples (foil wrapped single use wipes) of colognes and sometimes perfumes (supposedly for Mom, but I would keep some and excitedly sniff them...dreaming of the day when I could buy my own and wear them ). This scent reminds me of those days. I found this overwhelming and old lady like at the time. Now: WOW!!... (Old ladies know what's up!) :-) The bitter bright and expansive opening (complete with aldehydes aplenty) may turn some people off and make them say Eww!, but to me they say "BOY, come here!". The corriander and cardamom are dry and sharp, and the gardenia is creamy and full. As it calms, the heart blends strong flowers and exotic aromatic woods in a way that is at once sweet, warm and earthy. The myrrh and styrax give it a true vintage aura and the patchouli and vetiver give it strength and presence. There really is a lot "Occuring" here! A very animalic musky base, rounded by the gourmand components sweetness (honey, vanilla and coconuts), gives it something that many perfumes, today, don't really have any more: oomph! The smoky leather note and the warm amber make it feel even more exotic and a tad oriental, though it is most definitelty a chypre! After it dries completely it is nowhere near as loud or raucous as it's opening was. In fact, this is something the right guy could pull off with no problem: smoky, earthy and musky, as long as the power flowers were not a problem. This went from an "Eewww" to a "Hmmm?" to a "Yes, oh YES!" for me. My one friend calls this Avon's "No.5"!! Think you did not like it back then? Give this exquisite lady another sniff today (if you can find her, that is!) and maybe you'll find something grand and gorgeous, like I did... Sillage: massive Longevity: great Overall: 3.75/5 Smelling Occur! again today is making me miss my favorite Avon vintage: Moonwind, even more. :-( If there is anyone in the member community who could provide a sample or small decant of Moonwind, you would have my undying appreciation and utmost respect as a collector! Other Avon scents this made me remember: Topaze Cotillion Zany! Pearls and Lace Pink Suede Rare Sapphires Rare Emeralds Bird of Paradise and the mens: Cordovan Weekend Iron Interact ProSport Windswept *Aah, the power of scent on memories...*

If I had to venture a guess as to how many bottles of "Occur!" I have gone through in my lifetime it would probably be at least a dozen---seriously! At least a dozen! This one was my long-time chypre olfactory love affair's favorite from Avon. In looking back on it now that I am much older & reflect on my fragrance preferences throughout my life, this "on the cheap" Avon creation probably spawned my preference for the chypre group over any other. The Avon campaign marketed Occur! as a very modern fragrance for the very modern woman. But in my estimation, it is probably Avon's best homage to the early days of the chypre genre & so eloquently done by the French. May I venture to dare say it is Avon's version of a fine French perfume for a pittance? For that is what it is in reality. And it brings to mind now a segment of classic film footage recently by the great Dame Maggie Smith playing her role of the Dowager Countess Grantham with her granddaughter, Edith, character of "Downton Abbey". They had previously negotiated Edith was to pick up a bottle of civet for her grandmother & upon presenting it to "Granny" in all her splendor, when Edith reports what the bottle cost the Granny exclaims incredulously, "What?! For a bottle of civet?!?" Since those bottles are now gone & not available, this is about the next-best thing for civet & chypre lovers like myself. I never tire of this fragrance & wish I could smell this wonderful all the time. This one reminds me to return to the truly good things & this is one of them. GypsyParfumista brilliantly describes the unfolding of this complex gem for Avon & I could not expound any further as to the magic it unveils. I might add that it is somewhat of an almost "tuff-ladylike" in it's character in impression once the aldehydes have settled after opening brilliantly. Now it seems like ebay is about the best place to find a bottle of this. It is not expensive & sells at practically a give-away. But if you relish the days of yester-years & strong, tuff, ladylike women that hid that toughness housed under the best of the kid leather gloves, then please try this one if you have yet to do so! Probably the best to come out of the house of Avon!

I managed to stumble upon a perfume oil bottle and later a cologne concentration bottle of Occur! What a great classic this is. I decided to wear each on a different hand and report my findings. The oil opened with immediate Avon "O.L." essence...if you follow. The cologne went to bright citrus and aldehydes. It's sort of as if they danced around each other for a bit before settling into more or less the same scent. To my nose, the oil is definitely the skankier of the two (so naturally my favorite), while the cologne is lighter and almost a floral aldehyde of more modern style. Because of the intensity of the oil (I applied essentially the same amount of each), I had to clear my nose with a half dozen deep breaths and put the hand with the oil behind my back before being able to really distinguish the notes in the cologne. Once I did get that whiff, it was heavenly! Powdery, floral, sweet but not sugary, and leathery (yep, I'm sold!) This is elegant class in a bottle. But of course the oil remains. She is much stronger and more "perfumy" with a strong oakmoss note and the gorgeous civet. The oil is not what I would Call elegant class. The oil is confident, sexy, and just a little bit bitchy, but she has enough class to hold her tongue... If she wants. It's the silage that really separates the two. From the tiny half dime size daub I made of each, the cologne gently wafts to my nose while I'm typing this on my phone. But the oil? Same amount and to keep her from overpowering her more reserved sister, I have to keep her behind my back. So what do I prefer? MORE! haha I only regret that I have two small bottles, and hope I might find a larger bottle... Maybe a spray, but only of the cologne. The absolute truth is, this fragrance is every bit as classy and well made as Shalimar or My Sin. Did I really just write that? Durn tootin I did! Please find this perfume. It is heaven scent (see what I did there?) and you will barely need any of the oil to keep you wafting deliciousness all day. The honey is the star of the show, but it only serves as a carrier for the other notes. It's not a honey scent in my opinion. It's a masterpiece. And I'm off to eBay...

Vintage 70's from a rep sampler. This went from "Oh dear god in heaven!" to "Oh my god this is heaven!" in 3 minutes flat! The aldahydes were so sharp that they nearly cut my nose clean off. I was thinking dang and it smelled so nice in the bottle! I was just about to go screaming in to the night when it quite suddenly morphed into the strong animolic chypre I've been trying to find for a long time! You know without going that expensive niche route! Yay! Oh that castoreum is so strong at first it even puts the civet on the back shelf for a while but not forever! ;-) However one can not live off of stank alone and all the spices, resins and creamy white notes give this a certain oriental feel to me. Yes, no? The leather comes later to the party unlike... Shalimar but again this is so not Shalimar! Shalimar is a high class all put together trist with an older man and Occur! is an orgy! Avon should have called this Happening! or Love-In! Speaking of love I love this! So this is comming straght out of the bin and in to my favs! Update: I tried a bottle from the 80's and the animolics are gone! That was REAL castoreum in the 60's and 70's! I should know I have a wonderful tincture of castoreum complements of a friend. Update again: I've obtained another vintage bottle of Occur! from the early 70's and it's shaped like a Butter Churn. Weird! This one is apparently the freshest (vintage) bottle I've found yet. The aldehydes are way gentler and the animolics are still huge but better balanced. Everything else is the same. Occur! is still one of my new (old) favorites! However it would seem Occur! has a hard time aging but I don't care! I love it!

It is my humble opinion that Occur! should be regarded as one of the great classics of perfumery. Let me tell you why: it PREVAILS. It really does OCCUR, and in an expansive, hold-your-horse-because-I'm-gonna-get-ya kind of way. It is this baffling mosaic of a perfume, not merely dawdling in a coquettish manner but giving every concentrated, punchy, delirium-inducing theme that was offered in the mid-century. Bright and sharp aldehydes, bitter and sweet colliding, spicy carnations and a heap of other flowers skipping the light fandango, all in an amber chamber, pouring out into a musky, leathery chypre base. In marches the moss, the powder, the rustling ruffles of foreplay. I would be remiss not to mention the lustful slick of castoreum and the purr of civet—cue that iconic riff from Mickey and Sylvia's "Love is Strange." This is Avon, that of which is often mocked and jested as "cheap" and "every day Middle American"—what folks may perhaps call "normie" these days. There were many a lower-middle class and working class American who smelled divine thanks to Avon, though. Rich and dynamic, Occur! is perfume with a capital P, among the ranks of My Sin, Shocking, Habanita, Bandit—yet it remains in the shadows of these classics as it bears that unwarranted stigma. And to the gents, especially those who enjoy wet shaving, might I suggest Occur! as a smashing finish for your routine before you head out to face the day. As with so many delights of the early-to-mid-20th century that are in no way perceived as inherently gendered. Go forth and occur!

Avon OCCUR! is my favorite alltime Avon scent. Avon scents, to me, have sometimes seemed a bit infra-dig because their basenotes were never conspicuously luxurious as your *grande maison* French numbers. The "Avonade", if you will, was usually comprised of a blatantly faux and rather banal synthetic amber, and all the Avon scents seemed to dry down to it (Actually I've recently complained that the Tom Ford scents were also guilty of having basenotes not as uncompromisingly luxurious as the promise of their opening unfoldment; There! I said it!). The Avons' takeoff and heart were often lovely, though. OCCUR! is different in that it read as high quality classic perfumery from tête to fond. As others state here, it is probably the skankiest animalic number Avon ever released. To my nose, the grand scent it emulated was not JOY, BAL or BANDIT, but rather ARPÈGE with a nod to MISS DIOR. But to OCCUR's credit, it did add a charming sweetness to the imperious aldehydic/animalic Midcentury glam-bomb: notes of honey, coconut, and what I read as as a subtly sweet red apple note. Thus OCCUR! was not an ice-cold Balmain-clad European aristo... she was more your very pretty second grade teacher at Christmas of 1969. OCCUR! has nothing to apologize for, and indeed, I have swept up a number of flacons of it on eBay over the years.

This is a lovely scent. I have the EDC in a vintage splash "kitten little" bottle, so cute! My grandmother had the same bottle when I was small and I don't know what scent hers had in it, as there were many options, but it was not this. I wanted to have the same bottle as her but it's impossible for me to figure out what scent she had in hers without smelling them all. I picked this one to get the bottle because I really wanted to experience what real castoreum smells like. It's so interesting! I see why people describe it as addicting, I wasn't so sure with some people describing it as "skanky," and I kinda see what they mean a little, it's got a kind of sharpness at first, but to me that implies it smells bad, and it does not. Nothing modern could compare to this scent. The oakmoss, civetta, and castoreum feel like a time capsule, and are so beautifully supported by the other notes, especially the myrrh, amber, coconut, and leather. Great for cold weather. I would definitely describe it as more unisex by today's standards, though many vintage femme scents feel that way to me. Projection is moderate, longevity is ok, around 6 hours, really not bad at all considering it's an EDC from so long ago.

Now what is this... Initially, upon first application, the aldehydes burst out and almost made my eyes water. Yet, very promising. This could turn out either great or a disaster. Shortly after Occur! became very distinctively animalic. Not vulgar-animalic, more a distanced, "executive-type" of animalic. Something just under the professional surface. Later on it went to a mature, lady-like scent, not romantic, but quite sophisticated. Then poof! it was all gone, over just a couple of hours. New application, same development. Now to the interesting point: Late afternoon I applied for the 3rd time, persistant as I am. This time it behaved quite differently. A superfast leap from the aldehydes and bergamot to the animalic part - and now, a different type of animalic. Sweeter, more gentle, and without the predator-like impression from the 2 first applications. It also dried down much sweeter and more cashmere-kitten-purr-ish than before. I'm not sure which of these developments I like the best. That must be depending on mood probably. The only thing that disappointed me here is the longevity. In every other aspect a great perfume.

Wow! What a beauty! Here is a funny story..I tracked this fragrance down on eBay as someone recommended it to layer with Tete-a-Tete to make a good Magie Noire dupe because of the heaviness of the Castoreum. I was fairly uneducated on this ingredient so was excited to try. Lo and behold..at my most recent visit to my mother's house and two dusty old Avon bottles appeared as if by magic by the side of the bathtub : Occur and Timeless! Well it is love at first sniff! We used to all be a little snobby and snigger publicly about Avon yet quietly on my own as a tween, I would devour the catalogue and spend hours looking at the photos and wondering what everything was like in real life. We used to laugh back then about this guilty pleasure but we are not laughing anymore. How was I to know that Avon has made some of the greats in perfume history available for pennies! What a fool I was! If only I had bought them all! Vintage Avon is so great that one of their old but good fragrances doesn't look out of place next to Shalimar or vintage Magie Noire, one of my favourites of all time.. Perle Noire!

This admitted vintage/niche lover can hardly believe that she's placed Avon Occur! on her "favorites" shelf here on Fragrantica. I mean, seriously.... an old Avon? Yep. Muscs Kublai Khan,Bal a Versailles, and Shocking have nothing on Avon Occur! MKK is prettier, softer, more floral. BaV is more powdery, sweeter, more opulent. Shocking is way more honey. They all share that certain deep growling voice, impossible to resist. Occur! has beautiful Myrrh in it. I do believe the old versions have real civet and castoreum. All the notes here are splendid, not a whiff of anything synthetic around. To my mind, this is Avon's pinnacle of success. The Oakmoss and Patchouli are not very prominent in my bottle. That is o.k. they need not be. I do get some underlying creamy Gardenia and Coconut. Everything here plays together nicely. If you love niche animalics, do your wallet a big favor and find yourself a nice old bottle of Occur! You can thank me later. ;)

197? avon 1.oz bear bottle from ebay vintage Instantly blasted with a dark murky powdery sweet medicinal urine smell the smell of great grandmothers old leather purses my senses were ecstatic this opens sweet coconut honey amber musk dark ripe full bergamot cardamon leather that's been baking under a hot sun while heavy aldehydes dance with murky dark greens think of very old mossy vase full of roses and vanilla beans that's been left outside and used by nature Incredible fragrance for animalic chypre lovers and those who want to challenge the nose every note pops and the power of these vintage musk add a underworld dark murky urine like sweetness that I find very addictive this is a challenging fragrance and if disrespected will blast the senses into overdrive like most avon's this suffers from poor silage so douse yourself and prepare for the sensory onslaught. Unisex by today's standards 9.6 out of 10

I love this fragrance. I found a 5 OZ bottle on eBay. The seller is located in Alaska, so I knew it would take awhile to get to me...I purchased it on Nov 3rd...it arrived today in perfect condition in spite of the recently settled postal strike here in Canada. The Partridge milk glass decanter came full, and in the original box. The fragrance still smells amazing after all these years. I think the milk glass decanters/bottles were popular in the early 1970's. I prefer vintage fragrances...I wish Avon still offered this fragrance for sale.

I admit, I've been a perfume snob and Avon was always avoided and snubbed. I got a vintage 1970s perfume mini and am astonished at the quality. And reading the ingredients list, well, who knew? It's not cheap and it stands the test of time for Big Girl Perfumes. No fruit or candy, just big, rich, real perfume smell. Old Black and White movie kind of glamour. Fits right in an old fashioned bar with cigarettes and bourbon. I think a man can wear it also.It smells 1940s to me. In a good way. Would be good in the winter.

Testing this evening, a lay down vintage (1970 ́s), 1 Dram of perfume. I am very surprized by this. Testing a few vintage Avon perfumes now and I am pretty impressed. Occur is dry. It has a Chanel No 5 type of powder quality but softer. There are some floral notes, but nothing sweet, benzoin and a little pathchouli also. I really really like this. I am now on the look out for the lay down bottles of Avon vintage.

You certainly do not see a set of notes like this in modern perfumes. This is a potent mixture, it speaks to the subconscious of wild animal sexuality, while outwardly appearing to be for respectable ladies and humble housewives. This is an undercover dirty, musky, raunchy sex bomb of a fragrance. This is the polar opposite of popular current scents like Lovely by Sarah Jessica Parker.

I loathe chypres but this is a chypre haters chypre. On me, it goes on tobacco. I just get huge tobacco and some musky animal then it fades very fast. Then, it rises from the dead and goes on and on. Ohhhh. I get civet and musk on this dry down similar to but not quite as complex as Habanita or Enslaved. This is lovely.

This was my signature for a while when I was selling Avon back in the early 1990's - wow how time flies when you are having fun. This was a great scent for a night out on the town, wonderful parties and good times. It brings back pleasant memories. I have not worn it for ages, but it remains one of my favorites.

First and foremost this is a spicy carnation perfume. Next comes some coriander and aldehydes. Then well-blended supporting players of rose, styrax, myrrh and a touch of civet, oakmoss and amber. This is not a skanky civet bomb. Lovely.

One of the Avon classics which I hope they never discontinue - like they did "Moonwind" and the lovely "Hana Gasa."

I purchased two vintage bottles of this from eBay earlier this year: One, a tall, 2 oz "cologne mist" with a constant stream spray and a box featuring ice skaters on a lake; the other, a 1.5 oz iridescent butterfly splash bottle, with a small cap with tiny antennae and the word "Avon" nearly rubbed off. Sellers stated that the first bottle was from the late 1970s and the second was from the mid 1960s. Occur! is a wild scent that many of my peers have noted was worn by their elders, like many of my favorites. Being that it was perhaps even more accessible than the already-omnipresent Youth-Dew and Tabu, it's no surprise that this scent seems to unlock memories in people around me. There's definitely a difference between the two bottles I use, even though both claim to have their original perfumes in them. The 2 oz cologne mist's opening is more distinctly alcoholic and gives the impression of aerosol hairspray for a brief moment, before sweetened, urinous civet takes over. Tussled bed sheets and oakmoss, but this bottle is dominated by the aldehydes, even after decades, and even after dry down; it remains indolic even as it transitions from cleaning supplies to a feline den. There's a slight floral spice to the opening, but it would hardly qualify this scent as being "spicy". I enjoy, but I find myself wearing it at home as if to constantly try test-running it rather than wearing it out in the world as I do with many of my other brazen powerhouse scents. The constant stream from the spray (a product of its time, clearly) also makes it much harder to properly apply, and I find much of the product is wasted through overapplication and there's hardly much that can be done to limit it. This one lasts roughly 4-5 hours; final traces are an attractive but faint musk, much gentler than the punching opening. I consider this version generally more wearable to others than the second bottle, but that doesn't make it right for me. The butterfly splash is superior in my opinion, and much easier to apply through either measured or reckless amounts. This version is more offensive to others than I ever intend (even if I am notoriously insensitive to others' noses with my typical overapplication and loud scents); the aldehydic opening is certainly more camphoraceous yet warm than the spray, and this opening is distinctly less chemical smelling. This stage still turns noses from others; I've pulled out the bottle to apply a dab to my wrists and triggered gag reflexes. However, this opening fades rather quickly, and though the aldehydes are somewhat overpowering, it does not take long for this version to sink into a ravishing affair of animalic raunch, made more playful and wearable (not that I mind) by honey and coconut, and plenty of oakmoss. Though I am not a personal fan of coconut, it plays a very important role here in how the civet plays out. I adore this version, though the opening does carry a certain frumpiness to it that I wish to remove my associations with, as I do love perfumes of the past more than anything that's come out in the last decade. Tragedy struck this week when the antenna'd head cap of the butterfly splash bottle broke off and spilled a majority of the contents into my purse. The top notes remained for days, even as I tried to dry out and clean the purse; I tried to keep the bag in rotation for another day, but multiple parties around me complained of the smell and I've had to switch purses. However, today, maybe five days after the spill, I've returned to the bag, and the fading scent is absolutely divine: Caramelized patchouli and roses, coconut and honey and a gentle purr of civet that doesn't veer on the side of salacious as much as I had thought this scent would based on reviews. Occur! does not remind me of the scents it is compared to, least of all the simultaneously debaucherous and regal monstrosity that is Bal a Versailles; I can barely see how they are considered related, even though many say Occur! may be Avon's attempt at creating a BaV flanker. Occur! is incredibly sensual to me, and while I purchased it looking for a skanky animalic scent, I wound up with something surprisingly both sultry and charming. It does have a certain heavy stuffiness to it at times, but I don't mind; Occur! provides a pleasant surprise with each wear.

Oh my, finding this one in my vintage Avon haul was quite an occurrence indeed! The "Heartstrings" satchel decanter came without its label. Without it I had to do some sleuthing. Only a few scents came in this decanter: Sweet Honesty, a scent I'd recognize in my sleep, Moonwind, one of my favorite Avon scents, or Occur!, one of the most forbidden scents in our house growing up. One whiff of the bottle and a quick application and I knew why. This is one of those "challenging" scents. And you know what? I think I like being challenged. Upon drops on my wrists, pits, and neck and WHAM, every scent goes at the same time. Soapy indolic flowers, an ammonia-like pungency and an extremely unexpected LUSH fruity coconut. Then during the dry down the urine-y funk dissipates and a pleasant, though still pungent, mixture of myrrh, oakmoss, and dark amber musk comes out. It's strong, but it works on me. At first my husband wasn't a fan, but a little while later he came in and asked what this new scent was. I told him it was the same scent yet and he was a bit mindblown. At hour 6 I reapply. The Patchouli and leather are a bit more prominent this time. At this point I realized something, this smells familiar. I was taken back to the early 1990's when my mom worked at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. One of the art directors there was an extremely eccentric woman in her 50's at the time. This reminded me of her scent. But I also know this was not her scent, because after meeting her a few times my much younger self got up the courage to ask her what she was wearing. To my then shock and awe, she told me: Schiaparelli's Shocking. She kept the whole bottle in her massive tote bag purse. I still remember her telling me, "It's Scap-pa-rellie, not Shappa-relly!" It was the only perfume she wore and she was quite noseblind to it. Let's just say you knew wherever she was in the museum long before you saw her! But she was great. Whenever I visit anyone back in MN I try to visit the Walker, though she is long gone. So, being a time contemporary I have no doubt this was Avon's sister fragrance to Shocking. I wouldn't necessarily consider it a dupe, just Avon's "Hey if you like that one, you'll probably like ours too!" version. But did I like it? Yes, yes I did. This would be considered unisex now-a-days, and you could sweeten it up a little by mixing it with a modern scent. They don't make this one anymore, and even if they wanted to they couldn't do it like this anyways. Still, vintage bottles are plentiful and pretty low cost. If you feel like trying out a "challenging" vintage scent it's not a bad place to start. I'm glad I found such a dense, raunchy memory bomb surprise.

A very generous Fragrantican sent me a sample of this. I hadn't planned on reviewing it yet until I had adequate time to really experience it, but since I just spilled about a half a mL of it on my hand trying to get the tape off, I thought, why waste it? (Good thing I still have a couple mL's left!) So I decided to enjoy it (even though it's 11 pm at night!) and review what I smell so far, even though it has only been a few minutes. First of all, I am pretty sure THIS was the fragrance scenting the whole lot. (It could have been a combination of all of them though). It is so strong! At first sniff- pure civet and aldehydes! I love it! The aldehydes give it a very bright opening and the civet makes it very animalic, sexy, and warm. Is this real civet? I don't know but it's lovely. The scent definitely smells "vintage", as perfumes like this really aren't made much anymore. The oakmoss is nice as well, and I think there is a nice balance in the opening because although you can detect all these notes, there is nothing that seems overwhelming (well, relatively!), and the ratios are just right. I don't get much of the other notes (except a little spicy carnation or something), as the civet and aldehyedes (and I guess musk too) are so prominent. The scent is quite "mature", if you will, which I am realizing I really love in a scent, regardless of whether my hubby says I smell like a granny. (What does he know about perfume anyways?!)I am glad to see that Avon has some perfumes that are actually really nice! I will have to report back in a few hours (if I don't fall asleep before then!) and give an idea of the lasting power. Sillage though, is incredible! If course I do have a lot on, but you can tell it's a very strong scent. If you're not an Avon fan but you like this type of scent, I say reconsider and try Occur! because you might be surprised. EDIT: It's been a few hours now and I have to say the perfume is VERY musky at this point. I'm not saying it's bad; just an observation. It's an animalic musk, a little earthy, somewhat powdery, quite rich. This is probably the most intense musk I have ever smelled. Wow! I didn't really get overwhelming musk at the beginning but now I see why it is rated second only to civet. At this point the aldehydes and the brightness have faded and I'm left with a lingering musk that won't quit! I think next time I wear it I will have to only use a little dab because man, this is sooo strong! They just don't make 'em like they used to... Whooo!

The citrus top notes in my trial mini of Occur! have gone off, but otherwise it smells fantastic. Unusual for Avon, the perfume is based around quality materials working in harmony. The smooth, sweet amber notes are "glued" to the hissy animalic musks via the honeyed narcissus. In combination with the spicy floral aldehyde top notes and the dense woody chypre base, the result is orchestral. Pure amber chypre decadence; dirty musks, skeevy florals, ambers, woods, earth, spice, all working in harmony. To top it off, I detect very little of the powdery, cosmetic notes I associate with Avon. I'm inclined to call it a more expensive, natural, and sophisticated alternative to Avon's famous perfume Timeless. It comes with its downsides. It's a muddier wearing experience, the progression is not as distinct, and it doesn't last very long. Avon was using natural components into the '90s, even if most of them were cheap. Occur! is easily the most expensive smelling Avon formula I've tested, and certainly the most animalic as well. The liquid is a much deeper hue than most of the other trial bottles in my old Avon sample box. Be careful, this one stains clothing! I can't wait to bust it out this winter and see how my perceptions change. Update: smells even better now. It's a beauty of a scent. I want to buy the big bottle. Update #2: I bought a big bottle.

This one is tricky! I have a vintage 1,7 fl.oz cologne in a "equipage"-like shaped bottle i bought mostly because of the interesting bottle. Well, first time i have opened the bottle and sniffed "occur" i was scared off and dissapointed, that much strong chypre scent welcomed me out of the bottle. Then i sniffed it again and this time i got some interesting notes out of it. Still it was very harsh and strong chypre with a lot of oakmoss, vetyver and carnation. Smelled really like a men ́s cologne a lot. Since i love carnation in perfums then i decided to apply it and i couldn ́t believe my nose about that transformation than happened. Instantly upon application all the strong notes dissapeared and soft and sensuous honey and vanilla note along with rose and musk notes were dominant! I just kept asking where all the sharpness that scared me off the first time is gone? Yet, you can still detect some chypre notes amongst the sweet notes, they are not dominant and make a nice ensemble with all the other notes. So don ́t judge it until you have apllied it! It stays close to your skin unless you go out in a windy outside and staying power is average, but since it is a cologne i have i don ́t have big expectations. A Very nice addition to my collection. :)

I Think this is a bit Synthetic but netherless a Perfume of self Interest. what make interesting and yet with a sting in the tail is the Unusual Mixure of Leather and Honey and with the stylax Civet myrrah whould'nt appeal to anyone unless Brave it has some Vintage Eroticism to it like Italy or France in the early 1960's a boy of 13 discovering an attractive Neibour next door Who looks like Sophia Loren Or Brigette Bardot. or going to your mother's Burgandy with faint orche stems and green leaves and a Ebony Trimed Round Vanity Mirror all Ebony And you open the drawers and you see Eyelash Curlers Red Lipstick Dark Nail Polish Perfumes Bras and Panties and when he saw them it became awaking for him this what i get a vibe Erotisim. without Expilciism.

This was a civet bomb on me. It smelled lovely in the bottle and I had high hopes. It opened up with a blend of florals, spices and aldehydes and I felt that the first few minutes were a lovely strong fragrance, vintage in appeal, classic and alluring. However, it changed, and as the moments wore on, the aldehydes fell flat, the flowers and spices faded away, and all that was left was the dreaded civet. I was so disappointed that such a lovely scent could turn against me like that. It smelled dirty and animalic to me, not appealing at all. My skin must magnify civet unfortunately. The only fragrance I ever smelled with more civet was also a vintage Avon - it was called Elusive and isnt' listed here. I never had the nerve to try Occur again.

Much tamer than I expected. It's like Bandit with honey. I personally don't find it all that animalic. I was hoping for a lot of castoreum, but I'm not really picking it up. Mostly moss, tarry leather, honey, carnation. As it dries down I smell the gardenia and coconut, though faintly. I think they more chill the whole thing out rather than adding a major fragrance presence. Very much a chypre, but toward the warmer and softer side. Kind of a soft, suede-like drydown. Not so green, not so much bite. I don't know how old my bottle is, but it's shaped like a poodle and the box design makes me think late 60's/early 70's.

Occur is a nice, rich scent, but doesn't have any sillage (I'm wearing a vintage sample). The first notes I detect are amber, honey, and vanilla. The floral scents didn't last more than a few minutes. There's probably a bit of rose and jasmine hanging on, but they're fading. This might have been far stronger when it was new. It's still nice, but no one else is likely to notice it unless I put on a lot, and even then it seems to have no staying power. I would definitely have loved it when it was fresh.

Bought an Avon La Belle Telephone decanter off ebay which had this cologne in it completely unused! Smells pleasant for being over half a century old. [Maybe I just haven't tried many but] I don't usually like animalic scents but this ones lovely

I've avoided the cheap Avon perfumes, but I just bought a vintage bottle of Occur and am very happy with it. I remember my mom wearing this. It's a complex fragrance, honeyed woods with spicy carnations.

I enjoy collecting the fragrances that the Women of my childhood wore. Occur is one we smelled everywhere...I love it for the scent memories.

This was a very okay scent. Unfortunately I don't have a lot left in the bottle so it's hard for me to give a proper review. I have this one in an iridescent butterfly bottle!

YIKES. To be fair, I have a vintage solid perfume version of this so it could have soured. The solid itself has a slight shimmer (like an eyeshadow) and is in a lovely little package, resembling a tiny metal pillbox with a cross-stitched floral design on top. It's an absolutely terrible scent, like an older woman trying to cover body odour with talcum powder. I don't shy away from patchouli or "old lady perfumes," but this is BY FAR, the worst of both worlds. It smells unhygienic and sickly. Repulsive and wouldn't want it on my body or my clothing.

I picked up a vintage 1970s bottle of this in the adorable Cinderella's pumpkin carriage design. The only way I can describe this scent succinctly is "woody dirty raisins." Repugnant. It has the same unwearable quality as the original Revlon Charlie.

Let Your Fragrance Occur! Avon's Occur was created when perfume was REAL. I remember smelling this on one of my mother's girl friends who was a cleaning lady and who later became an Avon sales woman. Occur was my "I hate that smell because I don't like the woman who wears it" kind of a fragrance. But that's because I adored my mother and even her girl friends were weird to me. But now I have come across this fragrance through ebay and I am loving it. No soft baby powder or body mist. This is not the synthetic fruity floral mess that the newer Avons turned into. This wears like one of the classic unisex masterpieces: Opium by Yves Saint Laurent, Magie Noire by Lancome, Teatro Alla Scala by Krizia, Charlie by Revlon, Passion by Elizabeth Taylor and to a degree even resembles Chanel's Coco Eau de Parfum vintage original and Dior's Poison. I would say that this fragrance and Avon's Odyssey as well as Timeless are in the same family and their Avon's version of an ORIENTAL The composition is magnificent. A lot of notes and richly layered with: gardenia, cardamom, coriander, bergamot, aldehydes, vetyver, carnation, jasmine, patchouli, styrax, myrhh, rose and lily-of-the-valley; musk, oakmoss, amber, vanille, castoreum, civet, coconut, leather and honey. To my nose the opening notes are big with aldehydes as with most clsssic Avons. Then it settles into patchouli. This is a big patchouli frag like the patchouli in Opium. I can smell some incense but it's not very strong as it's just fragrant myrhh. There are very few flowers whose scent waft up briefly: rose and jasmine. You also get plenty of coconut and some vanilla which make it very sweet and a gourmand type of scent but it's not too heavy and it's balanced with the aimalic accords. You won't find that type of perfect balance in today's fragrances which are pure gourmands. What you get in the end towards the dry down is the reality that this is a CHYPRE and it's very woodsy. The oak moss and amber support the fragrance. And over that, crushing the flowers are the animals: the civet and castoreum notes. It's like you were in a forest walking around thinking wow what beautiful flowers and plants. But then out come the animals the civet and the beaver, in herds and family units, in a stampede and their smell overpowers even the smell of the flowers. It's got a real sting to it. But it's incredible, dynamic, like something is actually OCCURING on your skin, like a furry little creature has made his home inside your skin. I find it interesting that the aldehyde-animalic combination can even be compared to Chanel No. 5 Eau de Cologne. It can also resemble the old vintage formula of Jean Desprez Bal A Versailles and that would make sense since this fragrance came out around the same time as Bal. This has a classic formula that belongs to the Golden Age of Perfume. It's a dark, mysterious evening fragrance which becomes musky and leathery and elegant, and has to be worn by evening wear like evening gowns, coats, hats, gloves, and boots. It wears more like a winter fashion fragrance. It's warmed up by honey. I love this kind of perfume to mix things up as a change from softer florals. If you like animalic musky fragrances this is totally for you. If you are exploring unisex fragrances, this is for you. And it's a classic from Avon from the 60's which today is not bein worn by the majority so you'll definitely stand out and get noticed. I would not wear this as a signature scent every day. This is a special occasion perfume, a celebration dinner, a romantic night out, or even Halloween costume party. It's not for everyone but it definitely has it's allure and it's power.

I've had this little vintage bottle of Occur for a long time. It was given to me by a friend and it's one of those continuous spray bottles, a little squat clear glass with a textured pattern on the glass and a tall gold metal cap. I would sniff it from time to time and was waiting to be in the right mood to really "wear it." Occur will easily wear you if you're not prepared. First off, non-vintage lovers need not apply. If you're not into experiencing lots of different scents for the experience alone, look elsewhere. At first (very tiny) spray it's definitely of another era. I could almost see the bouffant coiffed sisters-in-law from my 60's childhood wearing their "mod prints" and smoking cigarettes. Those modern women! It wasn't until later yesterday wearing Occur that I was really appreciating those few dabs of "spray essence." It was a really special feeling like when I first smelled a very new and different type scent. Think, when you first smelled Angel or the first fruit-chouli fragrance. Really different! The only thing I have in my collection that is similar in depth is a very old partial bottle of Imprevu. It has that essence that people describe as leathery. I don't get the "skanky" thing people describe and never have quite grasped that theme but Occur is deep and rich and vintage smelling. Nothing malodorous to my nose. Just rich perfumed goodness. When I was a kid in the 60's we lived in a small town in the middle of the country. It was the largest town within a 500 mile radius, it had a college at least so there were young people around. I was the last of a large half dozen siblings, working middle class parents. My mother loved perfume because there was always perfume around and my 3 older sisters had perfumes. I was always smelling EVERYTHING. Dad's aftershaves and soaps, mom's, sisters, cousins, aunts, grandma all had things to smell. I remember sitting at the table and my mom had gotten some mail-order item and they sent these little nips of perfumes that she let me smell. You actually broke off the end of the little tube to get the perfume out. Maybe she was actually using my arm as a tester strip or just keeping me out of her hair. There were names like 1000, Joy, My Sin, Shalimar, Arpege, Crepe de Chine (my mother had a particular fondness for Crepe de Chine and White Shoulders.) I remember buying her some Crepe de Chine years later and White Shoulders was always gifted to her on birthdays and Christmas her whole life. For a woman with so many kids to spend money on, clothing and feeding, a bottle of $50 (not sure how much expensive perfume would have been then) French perfume was probably out of the question. Thank goodness for drugstore and Avon perfumes. It meant mom always smelling good in Emeraude, Jean Nate, Intimate, Moodwind, Woodhue and all those other great fragrances of that time. Oh to have a time machine and revisit those perfumes as they were in that day and age right off the shelves! Wouldn't you just got nuts smelling things you'd long forgotten about? That's what Occur is, a time machine of sorts. I have quite a few vintage Avons and some others that I love to experience from time to time. Some I wear frequently, like Timeless and Topaze. Others are for those not really nostalgic as much as curious moments in my perfumed life. Not sure Occur will be one I will wear often, but I will come back to wear it from time to time.

I bought several vintage small bottles of Avon colognes circa 1964 in a .5 ounce-style bottle that has a lucite topper with 4 "A"s off of Ebay hoping that age (made in the early 1960's) would equal higher quality. I wear lots of vintage Guerlain colognes from this era and have found them to be consistently good. These mini Avon colognes, unfortunately, have been really disapointing. I suspect the Avon cologne that comes in the containers for the individual line may be better quality/more potent - the black bottle with the rhinestone for Occur! for example. Of the fragrances I bought, Occur! was actually one of the better ones . I put several drops on acid-free paper and let it dry and definitely smelled the honey in woody musky blend. Would love to smell a better quality version. The most I have been able to do with these colognes is get a feel for these old Avon lines. Rapture and Occur! are the two best fragrances of the bunch but I still am afraid to actually wear them because of all the off notes. After this experience, I will probably not buy any more vintage Avon cologne. I did get a 1 ounce bottle of Elusive perfume off Ebay for under $20.00 that appears wearable. I also got a super tiny "dram" bottle of Elusive perfume from the mid-70s for around $6.00. The dram size perfume is pretty lousy quality-wise. Not as bad as the 1964 bottles of cologne but way lower quality than the full size ounce of perfume. I have noticed that Rapture smells similar to Mitsouko and Elusive bears a strong likeness to Youth Dew. I have ordered a little bit of Bal a Versailles based on Parfumee's review, which says Occur! was a low-budget Bal. Hope to get the good stuff that used to be in Occur! without the off notes. There is a great vintage bottle of the actual Occur! perfume in a French crystal bottle on Ebay at the moment but the price is over $100.00! Update: Wearing the old 1964 cologne and boy is it good! Occur! is an amazing fragrance, one of the best American fragrances I have ever tried. I love chypres and woodsy stuff. Avon really hit this one out of the park. I LOVE(D) the original 1980's Obsession pure perfume and Occur! cologne smells just as good to me. I tried the Bal a Versailles and it is also great but Occur! to me is just as good. You really have to take a chance and put the cologne on to see what it smells like.

I received a bunch of bottles from a friend who was decluttering. Occur was amongst them. I do not have much but it was in a little red bell bottle and a 1/8 bottle in a metal bird. I also received 2 parakeet bottles with Chrisma Blue bottle (maiden type) Brocade Charming chipmunk No label, but it seems to be Field Flowers Unicorn (Unknown. The top notes are unfortunately really sharp, but it dries down nice. I think maybe a chrypre of some sort. I am leaning towards Timeless or Unspoken) Bud Vase (Sweet Honesty) Parakeet (Moonwind Bonus!) Let's get started on some vintage Avon. It is really difficult finding Avon in their original Designer bottles and not the decanters. My Mom used to sell Avon and was quite good at it. I remember smelling the scents in the little pink box with the tiny vials. (One is on the way here via eBay Yay!) I also remember seeing a bottle of it on my grandma's dresser, but it did not entice me back then. The bell is vey cumbersome to use and when I first tried it on I spilled 1/2 of it on me. (Damn!) Though with the amount I spilled, it definitely lasted through the afternoon and night. I have decanted it into a little spray bottle to avoid more mistakes. When I was younger, I hated this. I wasted all those years, sigh! This one is in the classic Avon style. Being a Cologne it does not last long, but I have discovered if you spray over the first spray (or spill), it last a pretty good amount of time. This starts out pretty floral. I get a little of the Aldehydes. Not much, maybe because of age or it is a cologne. T becomes this musky floral leather later on. I do get the carnations (lovely) and the Patchouli, but this particular bottle the scents all seem to have merged into one beautiful blob of scent. If I concentrate, I can pick put the oak moss , civet, and musk. The Patchouli is there also, but way subtle. Over all, this is really nice. It is in the same vein as many scents from this era. I had to decant a broken bottle of Creed's Fleurissmo and it smells like a sister to Occur. Though Occur is way cheaper than any Fleurissmo (Vintage or not. The vintage is way better. The newer one is a shadow of her former self.) I will be on the lookout for more of this!!

This review is of a bottle that dates back to the late 1960s or early 1970s. OCCUR! opens with loud, soapy aldehydes and a deep feral growl. After the initial aldehyde burst, a lovely white floral mix comes into play. The contrast between the clean and soapy florals with aldehydes and the dirty oakmoss, castoreum with musk is riveting. There is also a completely beautiful spice waiting just under the surface. The spice mix is comprised of Coriander, peppery carnation and cardamom. When the heart really opens up, a whole new dimension is presented. There is smoky Myrrh and a rich, dark, honey. There is nothing sticky sweet about this honey. It’s decadent and very complex. The Myrrh and honey pair wonderfully with a newly emerged bright floral zing comprised of rose and gardenia. There is also a dry (not sweet), fleshy, and freshly cracked coconut. This coconut adds a certain something that takes this composition from beautiful to amazing. All the incense, florals, and coconut blend perfectly and harmoniously with the castoreum and oakmoss. I want to breath it all in deeply and fully. The dry down is animalistic and heavy with musk and castoreum. There is still that floral zing sitting on top of the feral elements as well. It’s very beautiful and difficult to describe. This classic “cologne spray” lasts about five hours before it becomes a skin scent and it clings magically to the skin until about nine hours. There is such classic beauty here that it is impossible to deny the mastery of art that went into making this composition. It’s constructed very well and wears beautifully. It’s on my short list of vintage greats.

I like to buy truly vintage Avon scents and this one was a happy stumble upon at a thrift shop. Doing this is almost always a gamble, but occasionally I get lucky and this purchase was one of those times. I think Avon gets a bad rap for being considered cheap or that their vintage scents all carry the same distinctive notes upon first sniff but I would encourage people to give them a chance. I say this only because I myself was firmly in the category of "Oh, Avon. Pass." for the longest time but as I started unearthing some of the truly vintage perfumes, I was pleasantly surprised. Occur! is easily one of these perfumes for me. Found at an estate sale, my bottle is shaped like a butterchurn. Odd! Avon and its collectible decanters! Whenever I find a splash scent from Avon that I like I transfer it into a new spray bottle for easier storage, labeling and application. On me, this goes on with that punch of aldehydes that I associate with nearly every vintage Avon perfume I try, but this one dries down to a mysteriously smokey scent that I love. Longevity on this bottle lasts all day but softens with each passing hour, emerging from time to time to remind me that it is still there with its smokey honey notes. I get a lot of compliments when I wear this but I suspect it is because it's not something one is going to encounter on the regular. This is why I wear vintage scents, I am much happier wearing something just out of the ordinary that keeps people guessing.

Occur! is one of the most popular vintage Avon scents. Check out the excellent reviews by Sumo Tiger Cat, Kmarich, Gypsyperfumista below. Vintage Occur! fully lives up to its original black bottle and unusual, slightly forbidding name and punctuation mark (!). The varying opinions of Occur! probably reflect differences among formulations, dates of bottles sampled, and their states of preservation. In my view, vintage Occur! is a beautiful and warmly animalic chypre, reminiscent of vintage Miss Dior, without some of the complexity and the galbanum top. It is not at all aldehydic or leathery to my nose. Occur! is so worth having, and there are so many vintage bottles around, that if you are interested in it, it's best to shop around to get a really good example. Vintage Avon colognes are quite potent, but you can also find Occur! in a vintage parfum concentration in pretty one dram bottles. Occur was reissued by Avon in the 1980's in various retro bottles, and the scent in these appears to be different, so look for the true vintage bottles from the 60's or 70's, A half full poodle decanter that has been steaming on a bathroom shelf for decades will not give a fair representation of this vintage perfume. Bottles of Occur! that Meemaw, perhaps scandalized by its seductive fumes, put away in the closet still in the box, never to be worn, are a much better bet.

...Occur! ...? I suppose the name is meant to suggest a situation or happening. One coming or about to come into being. Btw, this is the version in the red glass flask embossed with cherries. A lot is going on here, judging by the notes. Civet (...), honey (!), and oakmoss dominate almost from the start, showing a brew heavy in the base notes. Carnation/cloves is as likely a conductor as any, for leading a full marching band of florals, spices, resins, etc. right through the middle of this scent. No cherries however, except maybe the sugary maraschino kind. So obviously we're looking at a quasi-epic, floriental-chypre grand production, of the old-world style. No, it doesn't have any carefully marketed legend and fame, like some of its higher price point peers, ...but its still perfectly fit for service in the name of glamour, revery, romance, seduction, ya-di-ya, etc. Femme (or homme) fatales take note. Edit: I looked at that red glass bottle more closely. it's actually shaped like a rustic, drawstring bag, with two cherry-like, heart-shaped beads hanging on the ends of the drawstrings.

To my great surprise, Occur does remind me of Shocking Schiaparelli. Wow! I bought a small bottle on Ebay just to try and compare, and, yes, I see the similarity between this Avon fragrance and Shocking. The old formula Shocking, that is, not the reformulation that came out in the 90s (which, by the way, I also love. It has the best honey note in the universe). Sometimes two fragrances have very similar notes, and yet they don't smell the same. Not in this case...the civet, the aldehydes, the honey, etc. I wonder if the Avon people just said: "Let's try to copy this classic". If so, they did a pretty good job. I mean, the original Shocking is still superior, but Occur comes pretty close for a fraction of the price. EDIT. So I wore Occur today. Lots of it. Nose to wrist sillage. Longevity, on my skin: 2 hours or so. Vintage Shocking has huge sillage and lasts hours and hours. But I still enjoy Occur, and, for that price, I might get some more to alternate with Shocking. I'm glad I did the comparison.

Hot Damn this is skanky!! Golden honey skank. I love it. Whoa. Totally a sexy femme fatale rich 1960s lady, even tho it's Avon and now quite dated. I find dated scents cozy and fun. I wear them for me. 75% skank honey, then a bit woody and perfumey with some chypre moss and mhyrr. Fkin awesome. I now have a stockpile I bought off eBay for peanuts. Seriously, 4 oz for $9 something including ship. So happy!! Strong cologne strength for sure!! More animal honey than green, it definitely differs from Intimate and other oldies. Would also be terrific for layering under other oldies that need more animal, like Intimate, BaV, Shailmar, etc... Some scents lose their skank from age or reformulation. I'm so excited to have this!! Lighter powder and leather as it dries down. But still the muskiest, skankiest I own. I'm giddy wearing it!! MMM... I LOVE THIS! It's like Revlon Intimate mixed with vintage Toujours Moi/BaV or Habanita/Tabu. A chypre, but this honey sweet incense. Addictive and amazing!

I don't have many Avon scents and those I do have are the flowery/ clean variety. I never could get into Odyssey and Far Away and Sweet Honesty is almost totally nostalgic for me. I ordered this on eBay based on reviews and my recent interest in leather/ chypre scents. I'm a beginner so I wasn't sure if like it but I really do find it enjoyable in a very classy, retro way. Not a modern perfume at all, not fruity or too sweet. There's a greenness and adelhydes almost too much at the beginning g but within 5 minutes it becomes a tobacco- leather scent with very slight carnations then the dry down is very addictive civet/ oakmoss. I tried Habanita a while ago and wasn't sure but I think this winter is the time for me to appreciate this type of scent. My boyfriend usually prefers fruity or vanilla thousands but he did say this smells good. Happy I tried it and am curious about Timeless and Intimate.

I'll always associate this fragrance with the Avon lady who used to visit our house when I was was very little. She was so sweet to me and I was always so excited to flick through that catalog. Back then, Avon was really cheap and it was a huge thrill for me to use some of my pocket money to buy a cute decorative bottle of either this, Moonwind or Genesis. Of course, it was more the bottle that I was after and I would proudly display these on my dresser long after the fragrance was gone. I think I'm lucky to have these memories as my first fragrance experiences. I feel a bit sorry for young girls today who all seem to be drowned in heavily marketed celebrity fragrances. I see nothing appealing about looking back when you are middle-aged and remembering your first perfume was something a disinterested Britney Spears was flogging at the time.

Avon fragrances have a certain signature aroma that is easily identifiable. Usually, I find this a detracting quality...but here, in Occur, it is charming, rather more a signature, like Caron's soapy floral base, than an indicator of cheapness. This scent is unusual in that it is not flowery at all, despite the category of Floral Chypre. The gardenia in the top and the jasmine, rose, and LOV in the heart are voluptous, but veiled. Occur! leaves me with the impression of a spiced, dry, mossy oriental smoky, sweet incense, thanks to the Benzoin in the Styrax. The base is sultry warm, with a boozy vanilla note. Occur! is moody and mysterious, and lasts the whole evening through. I want to thank makeupalley's "mariekel" for providing me with an exemplary vintage sample of this iconic scent.

I have grown into this one after disliking when I was younger but rediscovered it recently after I was gifted the perfume form in a teeny 1/4 ounce bird bottle. From what I can tell it's late 60s but woah it is different from the cologne perhaps more like a parfum so wears as a completely different scent on me smoky chypre a little animalic but less leathery and more earthy I am in love! Reminds me of Revlon Intimate, Diva and Paloma. I now love this scent and own two 60s cologne bottles in addition to the perfume splash. It may be my fave chypre surpassing Knowing and Diva. It sits on my skin beautifully and smells lovely smokey powdery in a vintage way but never overwhelming. I am now hoarding bottles when I find them.

Found a very old bottle of this in Mum’s room and I’ve been wearing it for weeks. I remember liking it but had no idea how ‘expensive’ it smelled. I get moss and leather intertwined with roses and carnations. No sickly sweetness. Just sophistication. This is how ‘perfume’ used to smell. No cheap ‘gourmands ‘ or the bizarrely named ‘aquatic notes’. I realise that the original ingredients are probably banned as allergens. I regret using my quarter bottle of ‘Occur’ almost to the end. But it evokes an age when perfumes were luxuries and had more depth, more meaning than all the flankers and body spray type smells ever did. I’m not talking florals but those notes that are impossible to pin down!

Not my cup of tea, but I can see where its beauty lies for those who love it. This opens with strong aldehydes that are crisp and strong. Unfortunately for me, the civet roars to life almost immediately. I am still learning to appreciate this note and can only take it in well-balanced doses. This civet is pretty strong and those who love this note would be pleased. The civet is blended with strong florals. The dry down is pretty leathery, another challenging accord for me. It is definitely a powerhouse fragrance and will not appeal to everyone. But you have to give Avon kudos for being brave enough to put such a composition out there.