Promise
Promise opens with bergamot providing a sharp citrus entry that fades quickly.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Floral60
- Soft Spicy50
- Tuberose50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Tuberose
- Violet
- Narcissus
- Rose
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readPromise opens with bergamot providing a sharp citrus entry that fades quickly. The heart is multi-layered: tuberose, violet, narcissus, and rose together make for a dense, classically styled white-floral bouquet.
Tuberose is the likely dominant note — creamy and slightly rubber-sweet. Narcissus adds a green, slightly animalic edge. Violet softens toward a cool, vaguely powdery dimension.
Sandalwood, lily, and vanilla in the base warm the composition considerably. The lily extends the floral into the base, while sandalwood and vanilla give a creamy smoothness to the drydown. An approachable, feminine floral in a classic mold — the kind of fragrance that wears with gentle elegance.
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.
