Max Mara Max Mara for women

It has a captive place in my wardrobe..

This is the olafactory equivalent of an elegant, tiered wedding cake--playfully decorated with swirls of fondant, sweet and luscious!
The sugared gingery lemon and creamy magnolia are what I notice most about this scent. As lovely and joyful as this one is, I find this fragrance wears ME, instead of me wearing IT, so I'll be passing it on.

Gorgeous. Sappy and caramel warm, a bit crispy at moments, enigmatically sweet. Extremely subtle though. This fragrance makes me feel like Cleopatra - a truly luxurious feel. And, to my very sensitive nose, it lasts and lasts on the skin for hours.

Just got this as a blind buy at the local drugstore. At first sight, the bottle is quite wierdly shaped, but unique.. and now the sniff test....
its a lot lighter than I thougt it would be, it goes very floral in my skin.. and not too sweet. Its a very light fragrance, i like it!

I really like this perfume however after an hour it was gone off my skin. I don't think I would buy this for that very reason. Too bad because my husband fell head over heels in love with this and we almost bought it. I am glad I tested it first. Such a shame when a nice perfume does not last on your skin! :(

This is soooo beautiful, sexy and sophistcated!!
But only thing is... the sexy spicy smell loses its kick after a few minutes on my skin... it becomes boring and powdery.. :(

Really really nice, I wasn't expecting much but was very impressed. The more I wear it, the more I like it. It is sweet but elegant, sexy and seductive. The lemon gives it a touch of freshness but overall it has that smooth feel to it that I appreciate a lot in a perfume. I would put it in the same category as perfumes like CH (Carolina Hererra), 212 VIP (Carolina Hererra), Burberry Classic and Fancy Love (Jessica Simpson). The notes are not the same, of course, but these perfumes all share a cashmere-like quality.

It opens with a blast of sugar and it is too sweet for me. After that a little bit of citruses and ginger can be felt. It lacks some character and the lasting power is weak on my skin.

I'm with Jazz444- crushed aspirins with a dose of undefined florals and syrup. Artificial and extremely mainstream in the line of all the last 5 years Gucci output. I would say that if you like Guilty or Lady Million, you'll like Max Mara, and it's cheaper - that's about it!

Very sweet on initial application. Then a bit oriental and then a bit woodsy... and then its gone. Such a shme it has no grab or longevity. For five minute its fine, such a quick affair.

Max Mara was one of the first scents I added to my wish list. I finally was able to test it and I am so glad I did. I think I was put off by the sugar cube note, although it was nothing to be afraid of. It adds sweetness but it's not too bad, really.

Another reviewer mentioned that MM is related to Boucheron's Trouble and I definitely get the association. The opening and heart of this has a strong, pleasant citrus note. With MM it's more tangerine, where Trouble is a stronger lemon. They both dry down sweet and musky.

I enjoy this quite a bit but I think Trouble is the better fragrance. Also, MM seems to give me a headache after a bit, too.

This one reminds me of custo by barcelona and guess with the curacao note it is very sweet and syrupy but in an adult way so anyone could wear it. Even a tween or teenager could like it because there is no heavy old fashioned musk or anything like that in it. As other reviewers have commented it does have a slight citrus smell which is why it reminds me of custo. My husband got this for me and I find it lasts all day but that is just me.

Sugar cane here is beautiful, mixed with slightly green notes. A beautiful, long lasting fragrance, in a beautiful bottle, classy, chic, sexy, one of my favourites.

I found a bottle of MaxMara at my local drug store on sale for $20. Not expecting much (as typical of your usual drug store frags) I was pleasantly surprised. The ginger and lemon notes are refreshing, not so much tart as bright, and the sugary base tones give the impression of a fine lemon custard pie.

Often I'm not fond of gourmands, but this one is an exception, with a mature, chic presence.

Max Mara was recommended to me by one of the friendliest shop assistants I know, so I couldn't say no. A pleasant surprise. Floral and sweet, I found it quite lovely, but perhaps too gentle & short-lasting on my skin. On subsequent tries in different weather the same has happenned. It's reasonably pricey here in Australia so I'll have to say no for now. Worth trying.

Hi found this one by searching for notes, then got it through a swap recently. I love it !
The lemon ,orange and vanilla sweetness that goes a bit sharp with the ginger in the beginning of the heart is really lovely.

At last I have it again. This is a truly gorgeous fragrance. Of all the ones I have and have had, this is the one that I can wear for any occasion and just feel special. I couldn't find it for a while and yesterday when I arrived home, it was waiting for me. I tore off the wrappings in my haste to have it waft all over me again. Warm, elegant, sweet and softly spiced. A true friend who has been away too long. I love it.

To me it's a nice elegant perfume with lemony and sweet notes. It will be perfect for daytime. I like it very much, however, it vanishes soon and you barely feel it on your skin.

veryy good fragrance warm and cozy sweet and soft in the same time super

veryy good fragrance warm and cozy sweet and soft in the same time super

For some unbeknownst reason, testing Max Mara was something I had been looking forward to. I didn't know much about it, I barely know the brand and to be honest, nothing about the notes appealed to me, yet I felt a good testing of this fragrance was essential.

When it came down to it, Max Mara was pleasant but nothing overly exciting. It's a simplistic spicy floral with hints of sparkling citrus throughout. I had an image of elegance in my mind prior to testing Max Mara, and while it could indeed be worn formally, it's also rather casual and basic in its approach.

The heart was unfortunately quite nauseating for me as it took on an odd bitterness, which only smelt cheap and plasticky to my nose. The floral notes didn't shine like I thought they would, instead they were quite loud and brash. I was a little shocked that Max Mara could smell so synthetic and strange. I still haven't managed to come to terms with its disappointing composition.

Thankfully the drydown is really pretty. An almost gourmand-like blend of sugar and orchid, a blend that also worked well in Britney Spears Fantasy. For Max Mara to end with a somewhat syrupy sweet drydown didn't seem so befitting with its mature and spicy floral opening.

I found the sillage to be moderate and the lasting power rather commendable, however I'm not ready to recommend this fragrance to anyone anytime soon. Max Mara's Le Parfum, despite its basic and clean soapy accords, is Max Mara's best fragrance so far, at least in my opinion.

Very, very interesting fragrance. This is one of my favorite daytime perfumes. The citrus in the top notes is sweet rather than sour. The drydown is sweet too, but not vanilla, which is very rare because so many fragrances wear down to vanilla, musk, or tonka bean.

This scent is fun and flirty. It's youthful, but not for little girls. It's one of my staples as it's very different from my typical heavier fragrances, yet it can measure up to them in complexity.

Side note--I don't like the bottle. The curved shape is very awkward to me.

it has sicilian lemon in it and it makes it so lively and energetic. it was my go-to fragrance a few years ago. it wore well on me, a modern womens fragrance with a serious side and just a hint of wildness. adored it, still think its lovely.

This is a really lovely sweet nice fragrance, easy to wear for any occasion really. It starts citrusy but the cirtus is soft and tempered witht he ginger and smells more like orange juice, for me the sugar cane note is there from the beginning, which I really like. It starts to get pretty seet quite soon, which I alos like. This isnt necessarily an amazingly original fragrance, it reminds me a bit of Dior Star for some reason for the fizzy sweetness, but I really like having it around.

Max Mara is Boucheron Trouble's prettier, more interesting and far more elegant older sister.
The citronella candle with sugar emulsion of Trouble is transformed into a sweet lemon ginger tea served on a table under the blooming magnolia trees, by a fragrant lily garden.
Whatever musk is present, is, thankfully, not "muscone", the kind that smells like deer glands, but one of the other molecules that are termed "musk". (I am exceptionally sensitive, and not in a good way, to the odor of traditional musk).
What the orchid in the notes represents I don't know, although I suspect its the vanilla.
All in all, Max Mara is a pretty spring and summer composition, fresh and sweet but totally not cloying and best of all, very affordable chez the e-tailer of your choice.
For my tastes, Max Mara rates a 6.5 for sillage, a 6.5 for lasting power (about 5 hours), and a 6.5 out of 10 for fragrance.
Alas - "better" than Boucheron Trouble does not mean "great", and Max Mara may be just a little too well behaved to be special - wish it had some spice kick or even some ambery warmth.

Without consulting the notes, this seems to me a generic woodsy vanilla with some lemon in the top and synthetic white flowers in the heart, and synthetic "white musk" of the drugstore variety in the base. Good for the office.

this fragrance smells unlike anything else I own. In fact I got a bottle for free from a friend, and I was very close to giving it away upon spraying it for the first time. It wasn't "me." But something happened after several minutes went by, and I became addicted to it. I know the description is above, but I really can't say it smells like any of those notes. It's a really nice scent, a good daytime perfume.

MAX MARA is a soft and warm, slightly oriental floral fragrance. The dominant flower to my nose is magnolia, and the sweetness seems to me more like a light touch of vanilla than "sugar cubes". I don't really catch the ginger/citrus opening--perhaps it's too fleeting for my nose to detect.

I have seen MAX MARA at deep discount many times over the years but never picked it up, wary of the possibility of the sort of chemical soup sometimes lurking within aesthetically appealing bottles. Happily, not only is the bottle is interesting, but the juice is also wearable.

Pleasant and inoffensive, this composition reminds me of several other fragrances currently available at reasonable prices and is comparable in quality to the Victoria's Secret SLT line or perhaps something by Hugo Boss. MAX MARA strikes me as a perfectly acceptable everyday scent for someone who's not totally obsessed with perfume. (-:

This is a über-sweetened version of "Bois Farine" by L'Artisan. Both perfumes are "Floral Woody Musk's". But this sugared "Max Mara" has a nicer price-tag to it. You simply must try this! A lot of perfume for the money! One of my signature-fragrances - love love love !!!

Max Mara is a sweet orange ice with florals and musk on my skin-very sweet, but restrained enough that I can like it. It is somewhat artificial, but more likeable than many fragrances of the same range (targeting same market, similar olfactory feel, similar sweetness, etc.).

I could wear it any day that I'm in the mood for a sweet youthful kind of fragrance-as long as it isn't too hot of a day.

It's a warm and beautiful feminine scent.
The ingredients are precisely dosed that they appear as a complete and beautiful composition.
It doesn't develop much but I think it's not needed. The staying power is fairly good.
I tried wearing it in winter but it didn't work. The spring fits it better. I suppose it'd be a bit heavy in summer.

A little too sweet for me,but it's nice.
The lasting power is ridicolous,it stays on me for about 10 minutes.

It's just so sweet and tasty. As usual such bright scents make me a headache, but this one never does.

What a potent start: an intense powdery orange, similar to crushing hundreds of St. Joseph's aspirins and snorting them. It calms down and shows some floral potential, but in the end, it's too sugary for its own good. Reminds me somehow of a thin version of Boucheron's Trouble.

Great bottle, though.

mi ha fatto venire la reazione allergica/e tutto artificiale?

Max Mara. Makes you wanna go Mmmmmmmmm.

Sweet & mellow. Very "old-gold". The sweetness is not "high" but gilded, mid-level & rich - it is made the focal point of this fragrance & does not hide in the background.

The softest of ginger & gentle flowers tempered with orange-citrus notes (fresh, hand-squeezed juice, nothing sharp here). Blended well together & all covered with a warm gauzey veil of cosy musk so nothing shouts or leaps out at you. Not so much creamy as hazy, like a big sunset on a summer's day.

No hard edges, no big shocks. A really nice perfume to wear close to your body - you will have your nose glued to your wrist, but only your loved ones will get close enough to catch a waft of the reason you are smiling.

Suitable for all seasons, & most ages. It won't make you stand out but you will smell heavenly. It is suprisingly sophisticated for a sweet scent but doesn't have great staying power. It starts to mimic my skin after an hour or so.

To buy or not to buy.....I'm on the fence with this one. I enjoy it greatly, but something has stopped me from purchasing to date.

YAY! Just received mine in the mail and this one is beautiful!! ;'D So pleased because I ordered it unsniffed based on the awesome reviews here. It smells like a sweet, yet mildly spicy and lightly musky, pink lemonade. Es perfecto! Think this would wear just as well in the winter as in the summer. Lasting power isn't the greatest but I can deal with that. ;')

mandashell: it's not as sweet as Fantasy, and definitely not in the same way. I can't smell sugarcane but a citrusy vanilla. Like a citrus ice-cream: sweet and tart at the same time.

Hope I could help you! :)

Want to purhcase this but was curious as to just how sweet it is? With sugarcane in the base one has to wonder? IF it is Fantasy sweet then I am not interested. CAn anyone give me a more accurate description of it's sweetness level. Thanks a lot! ;'D

Love this MaxMara! It's a little bit sweet, very warm and beautiful. Just great for winter. And last about 9-10 hours on my skin.

This might be the strangest review I ever post. If you ever go to Vegas most of the Casino's have their own scent. I stayed at the Palazzo and this is what it smelled like. Not that it is a bad thing, it is a lovely scent. I swear I smell sandalwood in this. When you first spray this you get hit with citrust. on me there is always a light citrust note through out its life. This scent is great from start to finish. It is a warm scent and better for colder months.

this is lovely and sugar is always there,even from the first sniff.it smells like a sweet syrup;creamy,fruity and cozy.
I think it does it's best for autumn.it's a bit too sweet for summer or spring.
it is the first perfume from max Mara that I've smelt and I think they've started business of making perfumes with a very good beginning.from the notes the most dominant one is sugar to my nose.there are some faint fruity notes and some hints of musk too.but totally it's so sweet,without being overwhelming like some other sweet fragrances.
unfortunately i don't like the bottle.you may call it modern,but I don't understand the designer's idea about such an ugly bottle.

I don't see how anyone wouldn't like this it is light and warm and a little sweet.I bought this unsniffed today and I am glad I did it is now a favorite.

Warm and luxurious can be worn any time and the price is amazing.Another on top ten list.

Very feminine, warm classic! And it lasts so long on my skin.

this fragrance remembers me holydays spent in south of Turkey

This is one of my favorite perfumes. I love it so much! It`s exciting, sophisticated, classical fragrance, which enhances the imagination and awaken feelings.

It beggins like a soft lemonade and turns into a soft floral, pleasent and sweet... but fades very quickly, I recommend it only for people that really like soft florals.

It disappears very fast on my skin. I dont know if I am the only one who experienced this :(

A pretty fragrance for relaxing in the sun and drinking lemonade as this one smells so much like sweet lemonade or "tart au citron" , really cozy and comfortable, absolutely not too sweet or heavy in my opinion.
This scent could be worn everyday and also works for special events. Packed in a classy bottle with decent colour gives the last final touch.

I do remember that every time browsing in different online perfume shops, I ended up looking at MaxMara. Nice bottle, not too overdone, lovely notes and great price were tempting.. But could not find it in normal shops. Until 2 weeks ago I spotted it! The first thing was - what? is it Nina Ricci Nina in a new package? I liked it but was aware that it was going to change and it sure did and it is perfect. I have it for a couple of days now and each time wearing it, I am falling in love again. I purchased 40ml, but next time it is going to be 70ml. Beautiful.

I love this perfume...
But it was not love at 1st sight.. I remember that when they created them about 3 years ago, I was not impressed by them...
One month I smelled them again and I have fallen in love!
I had to buy a bottle...
They are so differently sweet..like sugar cane mixed with some erotic drink... alcohol drink... that smell awasome...

I tried it today. This is awsome scent. No sweet smell at all on my skin. Even Euphoria smelled sweet in comparison to this perfume.

A yummi, warm, sweet and seductive fragrance. Might smell heavy on some skin types, but on me it is a great evening scent.

SMELLS SOOO GOOD MMMMMM I COULD EAT IR.
WARM AND CREAMY, ONLY PROBLEM IS IT HAS NOT TOO GOOD STAYING POWER. AND I WANT IT TO STAY FOREVER.

I LOVE MAX MARA!!!
This scent is so comfy and cuddley! It's a sweetness that smells just like beauty, innocence and care. I like it best on women who are older than 20 but still epitomise the kindness and compassion of a sweet child who still sees good in everything.

Affordable and fabulous smell....mostly good for summer

It's a fruity and sweet fragrance. Nice and delicious but not for me, because too sweet on my skin.

This is what they call affordable luxury.nice and feminine but doesn't last too long.

Subtle, warm, a bit sexy-mature... It's chic, but so intimate - melting on your skin & inviting to a closer contact... ;)

Good fragrance for every season, warm and sweet for cold season, with burst of ginger, lemon and sap to be pleasant in hot weather too. Very chic and expensive feeling. Can be used in casual situations, but have enought body and presence for special events too.