Mahora Guerlain for women

Sweet, long lasting, warm floral. Very nice. Just spray it once, that will be enough for the 8+ hours.

Mahora,2 my nose, smells like scented insecticides! No offence, but this is what I smell from a formula which's comprised of "more is more" vs "less is more!" No wonder Mahora was short-lived & and had to face its destiny.Any suggestions 4 my idle bottle?

I had this many years ago and have only just finished it.... wanted of make it last. Such a shame it is discontinued as this scent is DIVINE. To me its a spicier version of Shalimar....without the over powering powdery smell.

In 2000, Mahora debuted in a radically changing world. Its was next in line in the Sanscrit inspired tradition started with Shalimar. It was a big, juicy oriental. Remember Nahema and Samsara? This was right up there in size and drama!

I have the mini EDP that is so luscious and destined for glory. Neroli, jasmine, tuberose, ylang and lots of sandalwood and vanilla grabs your attention! There is a creamy coconut spice melange hiding in the wings. This was what Guerlain was all about-delicious seduction from a bottle!

Guerlain was ground zero in the great "perfumaggedon"! The battle between the corporate titans(LVMH) and the real perfumers was waged tragically on an unsuspecting audience. One reformulation came after another. The real menace was the IFRA. They claimed many ingredients were dangerous and too provacative.

The history of Mahora is strangely short. It could have been an international best seller. Instead it is now forgotten with plenty of bottles on E-bay!

I have no idea why this was discontinued. It's a shame because Mahora is glorious! It isn't listed on the ingredients, but I'm sure I can smell coconut, mango and melons in there. I've kept a bottle of it for old time's sake and still smell it from time to time to remind myself of how lovely it was.

Now on hour six, and the drydown is a delicious, soft oriental floral. Really nice to stay with and worth the wait. Found the opening to be a bit dry and woody, just hiding the masterpiece underneath. I'd use it during winter/fall, and now it's off to purchase a full bottle!

Beautiful fragrance which was unfortunately discontinued. I found it very, very similar to Champ Elysees also by Guerlain which is my all time favorite, hence would recommend it to those who no longer can get Mahora.

This is a tuberose overload...but soooo beautiful and classy! This perfume took my breath away at first spray....definitely the kind to wear if you want to make statement. One of the strongest Guerlains I own....crazy sillage and great longevity.

What an incredible perfume! I heard about it in 2001. One of my friends said that it is disgusting tobacco scent, so i've never dared to try it. What a huge mistake. I saw it in our local perfume shop last month and decided to consult fragrantica as no sample was available. Then I bought it blindly relying on reviews. OMG! One of the best oriiental florals. I can find similarity with original Coco Chanel, same oily sweetness. The only problem is that I keep on spraying and spraying. Bottle will be empty very soon. To my luck, there are 2 more bottles available in the same shop, i am going to take it today. :)

TUBEROSE--this has such a huge cncentration of tuberose in it that it smells overly rich and viscous. It was headache inducing to me--enveloping you in such a cloud that nothing can penetrate it. I prefer my tuberose a la Carnal Flower with little greeny bits to lighten it up.

The opening was really strange - sharp, hard to pinpoint and on the verge of being sour.. but then it settles down into a creamy tuberosey (?) almost-sweet softness that very much reminds me of the heart/base of Versace's Jeans Couture, only Mahora is so much more classy..

Mahora surprised me with a bitter-sweet smoky opening and then developed into a very well-crafted spicy tuberose frag. It is sweet in a very pleasant and wearable way and I think I find it somehow similar to Dior's Poison and Cacharel's Lou Lou, but spicier. I am glad I had the chance to try it but I am not sure whether I would repurchase, at least not soon. The staying power is good - around 5-6 hours, at least on my skin.

This perfume caught me off guard at first: it started with a strong tobacco scent on me, smokey and somewhat skanky at the same time.
But I'm so grateful I didn't rub it of right away: the skankiness disappeared and it was a beautiful tuberose on the bed of vanilla and vetyver. This is not a "wrist sniffer", Mahora has to be admired from afar, when somebody wearing it passes by leaving a wonderful trail. Very feminine, but not bland or uninteresting, a must-try!

This perfume makes me sad because it is a forceful reminder of how great Guerlain perfumes could be before IFRA decided that sensual adoration of magnificent scents was bad for people's character or morals. This doesn't reach the heights of Mitsouko or L'Heure Bleue but it is soul satisfying and can honestly be called a masterpiece.
The EDP opens with a spicy alcoholic note that I finally recognized as the sweet sherry that's made with raisins. As it warms the orange and almond blossom appear and stick around until a dry almost leathery vanilla peeks in to greet the tuberose. Then the oohing and aahing begins...
Several hours later I'm marveling at tuberose,almond blossom and vanilla with an underlying spiciness (sandalwood presenting as mace or possibly cardamom).
Inadequate words? Rich, heady, grand, prodigal, extravagant, unforgettable, towering. Mahora is discontinued but can still be picked up on eBay and other corners of the internet. Buy a bottle and hide it so you can let your grandchildren experience what it was like when giants crafted perfume.
Sillage: medium to close
Durability: 5 hours and starting to fade
Fabulosity: the top of the scale
Price to value: seriously, who cares?
10/10

I love this scent; to me it was very different and I was surprised it never became popular. Very delicious-smelling. However, I read that it was the very first perfume to use the frangipani flower, and that is not listed in the ingredients ... odd. For those who want to buy it, it's readily and abundantly available all over e-Bay :)

This came out very spicy with carnation notes on my skin. It stayed spicy as tuberose poked its head through. The spiciness continued to evolve to a carnation/nutmeg and then it fell flat, like the life was sucked out of it, and it just died on my skin. Also became a headache-inducer as it died its slow carnation death.

I was taken aback by this one! Quite the blast you get when you first put it on!!

It's Fizzy, full of aldehydes, blasting with floral and citrus plus a touch of ash (not tobacco, ash!!).

Howver, it ends out being a VERY heady tropical floral.

I love this!
Mahora is a mix between Organza (the sexy side) and Champs Elysees (the summer touch). The sandalwood and vetiver in the base are prominents, but well balanced with the vanila notes and the ylang-ylang, this combination makes Mahora a strong and feminine fragrance.


Mahora's sillage is outstanding!

This is an intoxicating tropical heady fragrance with a dominant white flower heart yet sits without the cloying sweetness you might expect. Typical of the classic Guerlains it retains the signature 'dusty' base that shows off its bloodline due to the vetiver and sandalwood base. This is a magnificent perfume and once I've used my decant, will definitley purchase a FB as it will be a staple for me during the coming tropical summer.

really interesting
there is something i can't put my finger on in the guerlains
but which is present in avon's timeless, as i noted in another review

maybe they use a certain vanilla?

this is good when used sparingly
beautiful, even
the bottle alone makes it worth the price of admission

Delicious fragrance, timeless, warm and floral. But that bottle! Classy, but the shape makes it unstable. A slightly bumpy surface will see the bottle fall over so annoyingly easy.

Its resembels to me slightly to Micheal Kors. Same tuberose.To heavy for my taste. But its a good perfume

This is a deeply rich and exotic scent.
Lovely to wear and it dries down really well giving it a sweet, lovely, powery smell on the skin. Very sexy.

Top Notes
Green and Fresh .

Middle Notes
Tuberose, Frangipani blossoms, Neroli, Ylang-Ylang, Jasmine.

Base Notes
Vetiver, Vanilla, Sandalwood.

MAHORA, O MAHORA, how I find you intoxicatingly delicious! This fragrance fits into a special category, apparently used only by me: viscous lusciousness. It seems so thick and substantial, so syrupy but without being sickening. Another member of the viscous lusciousness category is IL BACIO, by Borghese, which apparently many people do not like--it's practically given away for free at TJMAXX!--but which I have consumed gallons of over the course of my adult perfume life.

I do, however, understand why some are put off by these heavy, thick, commanding fragrances. They are so very assertive and so unyielding. They blanket you in their lusciousness until you have no choice but to capitulate to their captivating charms.

MAHORA is a special fragrance for special occasions, not to be worn every day, for that would be too much (also not a good choice for gifts to the uninitiated, I learned by making that mistake!) Now and then, however, I crave the warmness of the sandalwood, vetiver, ylang-ylang and neroli, the sweetness of the vanilla and almond flowers, lightly tempered by orange and green, all folded together into a sumptuously smooth elixir. In a word: Yum!

Mahora is really a great creation. it's very warm and intense. It makes me dream about exotic islands.
It is available now as Mayotte, but it is not completely the same. It is more an interpretation. Mahora was withdrawn due to regulations. Very pity, because this jewel could still be standing as a great piece of olfactive art!

one of the most misuderstood fragrances in guerlain history... it is a masterpiece annd I can give a hoot with wwhat the bloggers say

I adored Mahora. I tried it several times years ago, when I worked in a cosmetics department. On me, it was intensely sandalwoody, and very real. It was perhaps a bit overmuch in the first few moments, but then the scent lingered and progressed. Please pardon me, I can't describe the dry down since it was tried so long ago, however I recall that it progressed beautifully and had just the right amount of staying power. I will be buying one of the few remaining bottles available online shortly.

I love Guerlain, but Mahora is too sweet, and really strong for me, the whole composition is not well balanced, it is too feisty and cocky, not at all woody. A long time ago I tried it on, and a lots of people commented on my poor taste.

I love Guerlain perfumes - they always have a complex story that unfurls as the fragrance opens up on your skin. Even if you wouldn't wear them, you can't help but admire their unique composition. Mahora will never be on my wish-list, because I would never be able to handle this kind of pushy, midnight lady.

Mahora hurts me - she forces her way deep into my lungs with her sahara sand, aldehydes & heavy, honeyed flowers. I can almost taste her! The sweetness is deep & low & excessive. There is a rich, heady spiciness & a strong tuberose accent. As her velvet grip hardens, a dark tropical night-forest begins to bloom: nectar drips, incense burns & there is the slightest touch of creamy vanilla-coconut.

Her thick, warm scent is excessive, opulent & almost too much to bear (she will try to drown you in only one drop!). Mahora is powerful & passionate & pungent - hers is a forceful & pervading sillage with substancial staying power.

This dark, sweet, spicy floral is not for the faint hearted, or headache-prone. Alas, this rules me out.

I had Mahora on my list of perfume to try. I was surprised to read that it had been discontinued. Fortunately when shopping for another perfume, i found a bottle of Eau de Parfum for a good price.

It's a bit more floral than i usually associate with Orientals. The first scents that hit me were not the top notes, but the white florals of the heart. They remind me of Fracas.

The underlying smokiness of the vetiver and the delicate woodiness of the sandalwood are there, adding a grounding note, but not overpowering the flowers.

The top notes are quite subtle, and i can't pick them out individually. But they add a bit of freshness to the richness of the ylang-ylang, tuberose, and jasmine.

As it dries down, the underlying woods continue to balance the florals, plus i get a hint of something herbal.

Fortunately, i smell no coconut, and the vanilla knows its place, and doesn't try to dominate - i am not fond of "gourmand" perfumes.

This is a strongly feminine scent, not for the office. I think it's a shame it has been discontinued.

Beautiful, words cannot describe the scent.
Heady, smoky and ethereal.
It's like being in the most rich, earthy, tropical flower garden.
I'm off to hunt it down in its new incarnation!

Today, I re-tested Mahora. In Hungary there is a honey named "mixed flower honey", which is a very sweet, creamy flavoured, rich-yellow delice. Mahora resembles this yellow-tinged richness, but there is tuberose to add sun, summer, suntan oil, coconut (hawaiian tropic suntan oil). And you get in your hand a bunch of jasmine too, as you walk at the beach at evening. And you eat those loukoumathes, those honey drizzled greek fried dough balls (there is somewhere a fried smell too, maybe the scent of honeyed, burnt oil, but positively, so crunchy, appetizing, you know). It is genial, a monstrous summer scent, evoking all those things and feelings. 10 stars out of 5.:)

Oriental florals are my favorite, but this one is very sweet, so much so that it takes away from any other nuances. I wouldn't want to be in a confined space with someone who had this on, think it would give me a headache. I'm forty-something and it feels too old on me.

A rather heavy aldehydic rose, too much on the sweet side.

This is a scent i only discovered recently. I usually like those tropical not overly sweet scents for summertime and this is no exception. I think its well done, its very similar to the new Estee Lauder LE Bali Dream aswell. I also sampled the new version of Mahora, called Mayotte, which i like even better, its slighly more spicy, but the pricetag of this is so high, i recommend buying this one for 1/4 of the price.

Mahora is indeed reincarnated as Mayotte!
I prefer the original formule and gorgeous golden-disk flacon...too bad for Maison Guerlain, it is rich and lovely...

I pine for this scent of late , and yet upon first wearing I did not care for it , it seemed to be a straight up coconut. How it and tropical flowers in general grew on me, and now I regret not appreciating this one during its time in the mainstream. The notes probably do not even list coconut at all , must be the Ylang/Tuberose combo. I am given to understand that the original name did not fare well in the North American market and also it has been rereleased as Mayotte for a higher price tag, mores the pity, I shall treasure my mini of the original juice.

so unfortunate they discontinued a wonderful fragrance I loved this scent
was one of my favorites magickal perfume

So hard to find these days:(Smokey and magic.a must have in Guerlain's fan collection.

I love it! It's a pity that it's been discontinued. The most beautiful tropical-tuberose scent ever!

Long lasting, spicy and mystic. I like it very much. Not for everyday use, special purpose only.

This one reminded me of White Shoulders. It is aldehyde heavy and very strong and very long lasting. Mahora is one heady lady. Mahora wasn't my cup of tea, but it's worth a try.