Max Mara · 2026

Le Parfum

Premium$$$, 3 of 5

The houseFor women

VersionEau de Parfum

Lush tuberose and vanilla wrapped in musky woods of sandalwood and cedar.

Max Mara says

You’ll smell sandalwood, vanilla and Tuberose Absolute.

More from Max Mara’s description

It also mentions Musky woods, Tuberose, Woods and Cedar.

The house’s page

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Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Le Parfum’s scent picture, a draft: sandalwood, vanilla (vanillin), tuberose, musky woods, cedar, virginia cedar drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Le Parfum, top notes: Lemon

Heartas it settles

Le Parfum, heart: Eugenol (clove)

Dry-downwhat stays

Le Parfum, dry-down: Sandalwood, Vanilla (vanillin), Tuberose, Musky woods, Cedar, Virginia cedar, Patchouli, Iso E Super (pencil shavings on velvet), Coumarin (new-mown hay)

What’s inside it

What the label names

15 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

A label must name certain ingredients, most of them ones that can cause allergies; some houses print more. It is never the whole recipe.

4 citrus2 herbs & lavender2 florals3 woods2 sweet2 spices

9 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell9

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Bleu de ChanelChanel · shares sandalwood, vanilla, cashmere knit and cedar (Atlas cedar)$173 for 100 ml · about the same as Le Parfum’s $180
for WomenBurberry · shares sandalwood, vanilla, cashmere knit and cedar (Atlas cedar)$148 for 100 ml · about the same as Le Parfum’s $180
Libre Santal CoutureYSL · shares sandalwood, vanilla, cashmere knit and cedar (Atlas cedar)$155 for 50 ml

Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.