Mahora
Mahora arrives as a sunblind wall of tuberose — not the powdery iris-adjacent version but the indolic, almost rubbery facet that can make tuberose devotees dizzy.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Tuberose85
- Floral65
- Vanilla60
- Yellow Floral
The note pyramid
- Orange
- Orange
- Tuberose
- Tuberose
- Neroli
- Neroli
- Jasmine
By the editors · 2 min readMahora arrives as a sunblind wall of tuberose — not the powdery iris-adjacent version but the indolic, almost rubbery facet that can make tuberose devotees dizzy. Orange in the top note lasts only briefly before the quartet of white florals takes over: neroli adds a soap-clean brightness, jasmine contributes its animalic warmth, ylang-ylang its banana-candy sweetness. The heart is tropically dense, almost claustrophobic in warm weather.
The base is pure Guerlain vocabulary: sandalwood and vetiver draped in vanilla, lending a creamy anchoring that prevents the florals from screaming.
Discontinued since the early 2000s, Mahora is an archetype of that era's unashamed maximalism — a fragrance that made no concessions to wearability, and none were needed.
Scent twins
In this family
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