La Promesse
Apple, cinnamon, and saffron create an opening that is fruity, warmly spicy, and slightly exotic with a dry, aromatic edge.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Warm Spicy70
- Amber70
- Woody60
- Oud
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Cinnamon
- Saffron
- Sandalwood
- Oud
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readApple, cinnamon, and saffron create an opening that is fruity, warmly spicy, and slightly exotic with a dry, aromatic edge. Oud and patchouli rise from the heart, introducing a dark, earthy richness that contrasts with the brighter top notes, while sandalwood adds a creamy woodiness. Amber and vanilla in the base provide a sweet, resinous dry-down that smooths out the composition into a warm, oriental accord. The scent evolves noticeably, moving from spicy fruit to a deep, woody-resinous finish with moderate complexity. Projection is strong initially, becoming more intimate after three hours with longevity around seven hours. Best for fall and winter evenings, especially in cool to cold weather for dates or special events.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
