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Avon 1996

7.5 / 10 81 Ratings

A popular perfume by Avon for women and men, released in 1996. The scent is leathery-fruity. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Leathery

Fruity

Sweet

Woody

Smoky

Fragrance Notes

Russian leather

Animalic notes Birch

Birch

Plant juice Resins

Resins

Desaturated Hangnail

Ratings

Scent

7.581 Ratings

Longevity

7.656 Ratings

Sillage

6.554 Ratings

Bottle

8.270 Ratings

Value for money

6.521 Ratings

Submitted by Kankuro · last update on 11/10/2025.

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Reviews

6 in-depth fragrance descriptions

07/11/2013

1Scent

PBullFriend
312 Reviews

PBullFriend

5

socked it to me!

North Americans of a certain age may remember a TV show called "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" on which an actress named Judy Carne would say "Sock it to Me!" and a giant boxing glove would come out of the wall and punch her. That's what I think of when I smell Boxeuses. The first time I tried it, I smelled a lovely soft vegetal leather. And then, 20 minutes later, the giant boxing glove came out of the wall and punched me in the snout. Boxeuses apparently contains the same cedar note as Lutens' Feminite du Bois and Cedre (among others), and that note makes me almost physically ill.

Was this a freak occurrence? I tried it again. Next time, it was a rooty, carroty leather with a hint of honeyed spice, a bit like SL Arabie, and quite pleasant. After two such different experiences, I saved the rest of my sample and tried it again today. This time, the giant boxing glove came shooting out of the wall and punched me in the face, HARD! I had to scrub it off and cover it with something else.

I'd love to know why I dearly love cedar in some scents, but almost get sick from the cedar used in a lot of Serge Lutens creations. It must not be the same aromachemical. If you like the Lutens Feminite du Bois or Cedre or the drydowns of Rousse or Chypre Rouge, though, Boxeuses might be just right for you.

07/20/2015

7Scent

ScentFan
336 Reviews

ScentFan

2

Extreme Subtlety

Couldn’t peg this at first. It’s a kind of muddle, not a distinctive scent. Eventually I smell a mild leather note, mild fruit. The notes are leather, plum and glycyrrhiza (licorice?). All of it too indefinite for me. It improves as it dries and becomes pleasant, but this is for those who like subtlety.

05/01/2014

7Scent 5Longevity 5Sillage

WRoth
154 Reviews

WRoth

2

Boxeuses

This fragrance opens with crystalline plum adorned by sparkly alcoholic accents. Due to these accents the plum reminds me more of liqueur than the real fruit. A smooth leather accord – like Prada deerskin or Chanel lambskin — gradually emerges and joins the fruit in a silver purple melange. A hint of liquorice adds an interesting contrast to the composition of notes. After roughly half an hour the fragrance has found itself and I see a delicate leather scent — in some ways superior to Daim Blond, for it is not as cloying. As the fragrance progresses, the fruit and liquorice notes evaporate and give way to a powdery-woodsy violet note. The floral complements the leather accord very well and accompanies it until the dry down.

08/02/2025

8Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

Zavy
10 Reviews

Zavy

1

Bruised velvet and leather shadows

It begins in twilight. Not a slow descent into night, but a plunge. The air is thick with something unsaid, and plum rises like a dark liqueur, sticky, bruised, a little drunk. You almost expect sweetness to follow, but it never quite arrives. Instead, there is leather. Not new, not shiny, but worn and pliant, like the lining of a coat still holding warmth from the night before.

There is no softness for softness’s sake. The fruit does not flirt. It clings. The leather does not bite, but it does not yield either. It envelops, with weight and memory, the scent of something fought for, and maybe lost. You imagine skin flushed from effort, laced gloves tossed to the floor. This is not an arena, it is an aftermath.

And yet, something keeps it tender. Perhaps a resin, perhaps myrrh. Perhaps only the memory of the plum that still lingers behind the scenes. As the hours pass, the shadows settle, and the edges blur into something faintly woody, gently smoky. But it never becomes warm. It fades like breath on glass, quick, intimate, vanishing too soon.

Boxeuses is not about victory. It is about tension. About the space between resilience and surrender. It does not shout. It leans in. And once you wear it, you wonder what part of you it has just touched.

11/10/2025

9Scent 6Longevity 4Sillage

valhelsingv
361 Reviews

valhelsingv

1

Softest plum and leather

Wow, these are some of the best leather and plum notes I have smelled so far... So smooth and beautiful. So soft and simple yet complex. This is a soft leather and plum scent for those who appreciate subtlety in their fragrances.

Boxeuses means "female boxers" and this scent is what I imagine their boxer gloves would smell like. (In a poetic way, not a literal way).

Oh, I love the plum note so much...

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