Oriental Essence - Maharaja d'Or by Rituals

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Oriental Essence - Maharaja d'Or Rituals 2016

7.2 / 10 145 Ratings

A limited perfume by Rituals for men, released in 2016. The scent is woody-spicy. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Woody

Spicy

Fresh

Citrus

Synthetic

Fragrance Notes

Cardamom

Patchouli

Pine

Ratings

Scent

7.2145 Ratings

Longevity

6.6134 Ratings

Sillage

6.3136 Ratings

Bottle

7.5143 Ratings

Value for money

7.685 Ratings

Submitted by Michael · last update on 12/25/2025.

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Reviews

4 in-depth fragrance descriptions

11/21/2024

8Scent 7Longevity 7Sillage

Ndell
31 Reviews

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Ndell

1

Simple, Fresh, Good

Not my first, but also not my last fragrance from the brand Rituals.

The Oriental Essence - Maharaja d'Or is a very simple scent. The 3 fragrance notes create a very harmonious picture for me. It is fresh and spicy in my nose. For me, it is the perfect companion when I just want to smell like I've just taken a shower. It won't knock anyone off their feet, but it leaves a clean impression.

The longevity is improvable (4-6h) and the sillage is normal. A fragrance for every season and every occasion, as long as you don't want to stand out.

The bottle is typically Rituals, very pretty and well-designed.

For me, a freshie that I enjoy using, even though it is certainly not a must-have.

11/27/2023

7Scent 6Longevity 6Sillage

Bujak
2 Reviews

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Bujak

We had a lovely time...

For my habit of sleeping in, I surprisingly jumped out of bed quickly today...the alarm clock pulls me out of dreamland: it’s Sunday, July 19, 2020, at 9:30! Right in the middle of the pandemic, which is slowly getting on all our nerves (and in retrospect, had a surreal charm to it).
The morning sun shines through the window of my stuffy attic room in that shared apartment and warmly warms my feet...it was warm in the place anyway during the summer lol. The reason for my "early" awakening was probably the lady I had a date with the previous day...and whom I had only known for a few WhatsApp messages! I didn’t know what to expect....a snappy goat? An arrogant wannabe intellectual? Or even one of those boring people who have nothing to say?! Better safe than sorry, and after I sent back the grill planks from yesterday and got myself into a decent state, I splashed on a few liters of Maharadja d'or to give myself a touch of mystique and adventure! At least in the first 15 minutes after application....the next performance drops were not worth noting after about 1 hour...would the remaining scent be enough for a good first impression on my date?! Who knows?!
However, that remaining scent lingered long enough to irrevocably associate this fragrance with that wonderful day in my little sparrow brain! The blazing sun, the nearly two-hour drive, the first look into the brown doe eyes of my beloved, the great conversations, the visit to the old Roman bath, the view from the castle, and sipping lemonade in the café...! The Maharadja was always subtly present!
The perfume is below average, both in scent and in longevity/sillage, let’s not kid ourselves!
Throughout the summer, I wore it from time to time, but today I would only take it for grocery shopping! Something romantic didn’t develop with the mentioned lady...we were supposed to meet two more times before I hugged her goodbye for the last time in the parking lot at Klamm on September 6...then the contact faded, and a few renewed attempts to reach out in the following months on my part failed...! Since then, the rest of the Maharadja has served as a time capsule to the summer of 2020, when I was last in love. We had a lovely time... :)

12/30/2016

6.5Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

Holm
2 Reviews

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Holm

Very helpful Review 6

fresh-woody - slightly artificial - somewhat plain

How different noses can be (or skin surfaces?): I tried Maharaja d'Or twice in the store - each time just a spritz - and found the scent above average intense and long-lasting: The first hour has a slightly sharp-soapy lemony freshness, then for 4-5 hours an interesting mix of this freshness and spicy wood. The sweeter base note is still clearly detectable after 12 hours. For me, it's interesting, but a bit too synthetic and noticeably lacking in complexity.

12/03/2016

5Scent 1Longevity 1Sillage

RiechArt
13 Reviews

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RiechArt

Very helpful Review 6

The Non-Fragrance

The third in the lineup of Rituals fragrances from my little sample box - three times 12 ml of explorations for my olfactory senses. After Sultan de Muskat (clear recommendation) and Eau du Kashmir (delicious but not long-lasting), now comes Maharaja D’Or. Well - “Aladdin's Wonderful Lamp” would have been a better name. Flacon opened and sprayed on a paper strip, and I was quite impressed. 7 sprays under my T-shirt and shirt - quite a lot and - nothing. How? Nothing. Gone. The spirit. However, not back in the bottle but completely. I've never experienced anything like it. A perceived longevity of 30-45 seconds at a radius of about 30 centimeters. A nice scent. I think. Gone too quickly to leave any impression at all. How did the perfumer manage that? Scents that apparently cancel each other out. A bag of roasted almonds from a passenger at the other end of a train compartment smells longer and more intensely. Even a re-spray (4 more sprays - with Fahrenheit I would smell for a day and a half) does nothing. Again, the nuances vanish instantly under the T-shirt and are - gone. The saleswoman in the store explained that Maharaja D’Or is a limited-time fragrance, available only until the end of the year. Wrong! It actually doesn’t exist, this bottle spirit. I will not mourn this Maharaja. Because - I could hardly get to know him. Perhaps another fragrance enthusiast associates something different - from my side, I tend to advise against it. Better to take two mini flacons of Sultan de Muskat - you’ll definitely get more out of that.