Promesse

Since this is my signature fragrance I'm going to do my first-ever review on it. I was gutted to find out that they don't make it anymore. Out of all of Cacharel's fragrances Promesse is my absolute favorite. I've received more compliments on it than any other scent I've ever worn. I generally love fruity/gourmand scents and this one is especially lovely. It's not sickeningly sweet or overbearing either. The longevity and sillage are moderate. On me it opens with a strong berry note, fresh and sweet, with a prominent hint of orchids and then settles into a warm and inviting vanilla, raspberry and cake scent. I only need to spritz it on once in the morning and I can still smell it at the end of the day, albeit faintly. I seem to grow out of scents fairly quickly, but never with this. I've worn it consistently since 2007 and I still haven't tired of it. Also it doesn't smell stale during the hot summer days. I've never found it nauseating or cloying. I used to be able to buy it for around $35, which I thought was a bargain. I'm surprised it never gained in popularity. Lancome Tresor Midnight Rose is a pretty good substitute, so is Lanvin by Jeanne Lanvin. It's a beautiful scent if you want to feel youthful, vibrant, innocent, sexy and sophisticated all at the same time. It would suit women of all ages. I hope they bring it back and soon.

(This review is for Eau de Toilette) I bought PROMESSE when it was first released in 2005 and to this day it remains among my favorite fruity floral scents. It is lovely, fun, and romantic at the same time. It is like wearing very girly but elegant summer dress with cheerful pink floral design. It is surely not very complex, or formal scent but this kind of scent I want to wear when I feel like dancing up a storm on a dance floor with my man. PROMESSE opens with the fresh citrus and then transforms into lovely, very berry, slightly tart and sweet blackcurrant scent. I love blackcurrants and berry scents in general and I find this one very lovely. The gentle orchids are the heart of the fragrance. They are subtle but nevertheless very beautiful. The scent is close to the skin but it lasts for at least 5 hours. If you love fruity floral notes and looking for easy to wear, pretty and chic scent then this one might fit the bill. My friends and family seem to enjoy this scent too. I love wearing it to the parties. (My overall score is 9/10)

I love this scent! It makes me happy and I get a fresh feeling from it. Like someone already mentioned, it is romantic and fruity and like all of my scents, it is also flowery. When it went of the market I bought my second bottle of 100 ml, which I cherish. Fortunately I already discovered a good replacement: Feerie by Van Cleef & Arpels, unfortunately, Van Cleef & Arpels is even more expensive than Cacharel! Both fragrances are very longlasting and both contain black currant and jasmine. Honestly, I love Feerie even more, but that is probably because I am a sucker for rose scents. Feerie contains Bulgarian rose and Egyptian Jasmine, while Promesse doesn't contain rose, but it does contain jasmine. From the 28 bottles of scent that I own, 13 contain rose and 14 contain jasmine. (And 12 vanilla, which has nothing to do with Promesse at all, but which happens to be another ingredient in perfumes which I am very fond of.)

Promesse is super sweet like berries dipped in sugar! Sweet, romantic, charming, juicy, fruity, flirty, delicious, cheerful, summery fragrance! Promesse opens with a very strong blast of delicious mouth watering juicy, slightly tart berry’ness! A beautiful combination of sweet fruits and soft florals. Very well balanced. The black current note is the most prominent. The sillage and longevity are both great! I can still smell this softly on my skin hours later. Any age can wear this, not just young teens. This is my mum’s signature scent who is 50+. An excellent fragrance for the spring/summer! Lovely bottle too!

Promesse is absolutely beautiful! Smells like forest fruits, flowers and musk. Longevity si pretty good, 5-8 hours; it stays longer if sprayed on hair. Very appropriate for spring, summer time but it is also suitable for winter, black current notes are more intense on cold weather. I received many compliments while wearing this, even from people I did not know! Very young and alluring, gives you a feeling of happiness. Too bad it was discontinued. Tresor Midnight Rose is quite similar although is sweeter than Promesse.

I received this as a gift in my 20s and wasn’t too jazzed about it; I found the bottle and its contents too juvenile with the fruity sweet opening. I’ve just now have started to appreciate this in my mid-30s. The magic is in the mid and drydown, which to my nose is composed of powdery candied violets, musk, and lingering raspberries/blackberries, but without as much juiciness. It’s lovely, soft and feminine, great for spring/summer daytime wear, but also comforting for wear to bed.

I have dreamed about this perfume for a few years and finally I have it. This scent is wonderful and I love it. I can not say exactly what I sense there, but there is a combination of fresh mandarins with bergamot, sweet delicate flowers and forest fruits. This fragrance is quite intense, vibrant and sufficiently stable. It is rather for the day than the night, for the young, confident and sensual women, who are sometimes romantic. One of the most beautiful fragrance :-)

I've had this fragrance for about 4 years now (same bottle). When I got it as a gift, I found it to be a rather generic fruity-floral: young, naive, and too sweet. After rediscovering it recently, however, I've found the woods hidden beneath that citrusy, berry-y nectar!!! And that makes me very happy. So while some perfumes need to hit the trash can after a couple years, this one just gets a lot better.

It's 2017 and I'm still SCREAMING Promesse come back into my life....this scent holds a special place in my heart and I've yet to find the perfect dupe and a scent to even come close to this dear beauty signature scent of mine. It was affordable, long-lasting and just plain gorgeous on me....I will always cherish this scent and it will forever remain a long-missed favorite.

Anyone that knows of any alternatives or recommendations of similar scents to the fabulous scent, please share. Thanks in advance :) Here are mine: Tresor Midnight Rose-Definitely sweeter though. I prefer this more during cooler weather. I'm still on the hunt for more alternatives. To date, I've tried Jeanne by Jeanne Lanvin and I still prefer Promesse much more.

I was surprise to love this one, because it's less complex than most Cacharel , really not the best Cacharel , but still love it . Very floral ,cheerlful and romantic , great in spring , but also in winter to cheer one up before gong to job ! Like some user i think it's better on younger people.

It is also available at Superpharm stores, so don't worry girls - we'll survive, it's not gone!:-D And if you want a noble replacement, go for Tresor Midnight Rose, Tous Neon or Versace Eros. They all share similar notes and quality, although all are slightly different.

I used to love this perfume so much a few years ago. It is soft, sweet, fresh, delicate, pretty, light, breezy and romantic. I think I used four bottles of it. If you like light, fresh yet somewhat sweet, I think you would like this perfume. I highly recommend it.

My all-time favorite fragrance, I really hope they put this back out on the market one day. I'm settling for Lancome's Tresor Midnight Rose at the moment, but the scent doesn't last as long as I would like on me. We miss you Promesse, please come back.

@misstierra05: you read my mind! Still missing this amazing fragrance and nothing I have tried can measure up with it so far.. Well I did find Gucci II to be an okay replacement, but turns out they discontinued that one too :'(

This is the first perfume I ever had. I have happy memories when thinking about it. The citrus slightly cuts the sweetness of the flowers and make it very well balanced. The dry down is great!

This is a very romantic refreshing scent. I have some special memories connected to it so probably this is why I love it. I prefer Promesse EDP over EDT because it lasts much longer.

Oh my gosh, this lovely fragrance is discontinued :(? I regularly borrowed it from my mum, till she finally saw my crazy obssession and gave it to me... It was love at first smell!

This perfume is a joyful music. The beginning of a romance, voice of spring, wide smile, romantic love and a beautiful woman, shining like in her motherhood:)

@nitschevo, believe me this is discontinued. I've emailed their customer service. I think they just haven't taken the information for it off of the site.

Very flirty fragrance! I always recieved compliments, especially from men, when I wore this fragrance. I definitely need to buy this again.

I had it and wore it all year round, I would (almost) give my left arm to have it again, discovered too late that it was discontinued :(

I wore this perfume during 2005 and 2006. I was 13-14. I received so many compliments at that time haha. It was delicious.

Великолепный шлейфовый аромат. Жаль что снят с производства. Для туалетной воды отличная стойкость

I'm a huge fan!!! Too bad it's discontinued!!! -(((((((

all time favorite fragrance. Its very pretty and girly.

A girlier version of Chanel ́s Allure edt.

so romantic .. I love this perfume

I was able to find a bottle of this discontinued gem recently, and the juice and fragrance appears to be in perfect condition. No degradation to the liquid or the scent; all appears to be in order. I must say that I really adore the Y2K styling of the bottle, with the thick plastic loop on the cap as an accent. The late 90's and early 2000's were all about that "chunky" plastic look, with a big emphasis on transparent plastics being used in unusual ways (transparent plastic coats, transparent plastic electronics, blow up plastic chairs for your bedroom, etc.) so this fits the overall aesthetic. I do have to admit that I dislike blackberry, black currant, and cassis leaf in general on me. I always find it overly sweet. This is a fragrance suitable for a teenage girl, whom it was marketed to. Top notes of bright, glittering blackberry and mandarin give this scent a fruity sparkle that would be immediately attractive to teens and tweens the world over. The center of the fragrance contains violet, which I think is why I do like it quite a bit regardless of the the questionable choice in top note. To me, violet adds a sweetness and powderyness that turns a fragrance from fruit punch left in the sun to more of a tart, candied scent. Very reminiscent of Sweet Tarts candy, actually. The cedar and sandalwood show up later and lead to a soft, pleasant skin-scent drydown. That soft skin-scent was also very popular in the early 2000's, but usually with an emphasis on woodiness rather than vanilla or powder notes to avoid the connection with White Shoulders or Love's Baby Soft, since that's what everyone's mothers wore. Overall I think that this would be a real winner of a scent for a 14 year old girl circa 2002, who wanted to smell more quality than body fantasies, but wouldn't have the money for something like Parisienne (although I'm not sure when Parisienne came out). The major flaw in this product was the packaging and advertising. The name "Promesse" implies some sort of virginal yearning for marriage, which was definitely NOT on the minds of the average Y2K teenager. If they had called it something like "Be You," or "Pink Angel" or something similarly vapid it may have caught on better. A note on similar scents: The citrus / blackberry accord is similar to Yves St Laurent Parisienne, although without the heavier, musky base and sillage that turns Parisienne into a beast mode fruit-salad of a perfume. The sweetness and delicacy of the mandarin orange on top give the scent a soft, sparkling quality that seems like the younger sister of Lovely, by Sarah Jessica Parker. Lovely does not have the blackberry note in it and also a woodier, softer base making it seem a bit more restrained and grown up. Edit: My fragrance appears to have yellowed with age, however I don't see this as a bad thing. The scent still smells exactly right, so the yellowing does not affect the fragrance at all, in my experience. I also think that the yellow combined with the pink on the bottle looks quite nice and has a pleasant color contrast. They should have made the fragrance yellow to begin with! ^__^

The first perfume(EDT) I ever fell in love with. I got it as a gift when I was 14 years old back in 2007 and instantly fell in love. This was my signature scent for so many years. It's a very girly fragrance. Romantic, fresh and smells like raspberries. I used to wear this every day and on every occasion and I used to get so any compliments as a teenager. When I smell it today, I don't really like it as much. Haven't worn it since 2013, and I've hardly used any from my second bottle (EDP). I've had the EDT and the EDP, and personally, I think I liked the EDT version is better although it doesn't last as long, it's light, bright and beautiful. The EDP can sometimes be a bit sickling and gives me a headache but it has a special place in my heart, haven't had the guts to give it away, even though I haven't worn it in 5 or 6 years. Might pass it on to my 14-year-old cousin if she likes it.

This was a complete blind buy for me...years ago. I was in Macy's and buying something else and the SA talked me into it. It is very sweet and fruity. I like it but its nothing really "special" so I hardly ever wear it. I put it on today to write this review. The sandalwood and cedar are ever so faint but at least they are their to add a wee bit of depth. As it dries it gets sweeter on my skin. Its a nice scent though. I probably should wear it more since I practically have a full bottle and the batch code says it was manufactured in May 2005. I am shocked that it has been discontinued! it has the vibe of many scents on the market. If you threw some patchouli on this it would almost be La Vie Est Belle w/out pear. I think I paid under $60 for my 3.4 oz bottle, and now 1.7 oz of this stuff is selling for $190+ on Amazon and Ebay???? whaaaa???

Cacharel Promesse is my first true perfume. My parents bought me this as a gift and I totally loved it. Back then, I only used this perfume whenever there was a special occasion (birthday, party, etc) because I was scared that I would finish the bottle and have nothing else to wear. Promesse was my signature perfume for about two years. The longevity is amazing too, I can feel it after 8 hours. There was this one time when I brought a blanket to school and sprayed this on the blanket. The boys in my class hogged the blanket and kept smelling it, saying that it smelt divine. This perfume is really special to me because I wore it during my early teenage years, and I had so many memories when I wore it. Now, whenever I spray it on, I can't help feeling really happy and nostalgic. I couldn't ask for a more suitable first perfume :)

I bought this when I was 15. It was my first perfume that I've bought by myself with my money. My taste in perfumes had chaneged over the years, so I won't be wearing this anytime soon, but I really loved it back when I was in high school. It's sweet and innocent, so it's very appropriate for young girls (but of course, older ones can still easily wear it, as it's really light and not too sweet). At the time I bought it I didn't care about the notes or lasting power and sillage, it was all about the love from the first sniff and cute pink bottle. Oh, how naive and innocent was I, but it really brings back good memories of my early high school days. One day I'll get another bottle of this, just so I can bring back those memories. So adorable.

i got this one but i almost never use it.remember wearing it outside in snowy cold days gaves me lovely warm memories but it really doesnt work for me in the summer.. than it turns way too sweet though it is longlasting on me but i self doesnt smell it after a while thats why i have to be carefull not spray too much. i got the edp. i think its a nice perfume if you spray only a very litte lightly on your skin that goes to have you smell twice than it turns in to an addictive scent.

This is a fragrance for a very soft and romantic but yet natural woman. It's sweet and floral but it's fruity notes make it somehow natural. The blaccurrent aroma is not only sweet but also slightly bitter and sourish. To me it also smells a little bit woodsy, which gives the natural effect. It's a happy making perfume. If you liked Dior Addict 2 or Gucci EdP II, you might like this one as well. The lasting power is quite good for such a light scent, about 10 hours on my skin.

Bought a bottle second hand ,and tried it once. Top notes smelled similar to Hot Coutoure by Givenchy or Trish McCavoy Blackberry & Musk #9,berryish despite what the "notes" say.Mid-notes were floral and okay. Basenotes were cedar dominant woodsy-musky, compareable to Escada Sport Country Weekend,or With Love by Hillary Duff. I like Promesse but it isn't a Holy Grail(must have forever) for me (and it is for a co-worker of mine).

It's a bit too lemony for me at first, but after half an hour or so it develops into a warm, flowery scent. The jasmine is not too overwhelming. The longevity is great. I got loads of compliments when using this perfume. It doesn't wear me like some other perfumes and has a great chemistry with my skin. A good scent for the summer.

My best friend's favorite perfume. The berry-ish sweetness smells real nice on her. But i wouldn't suggest to wear it in a place with lots of people cause the sweet notes can annoy one. P.S Do they still make it?? I don't remember seeing it in stores :((

For those who are missing Promesse and can't find ir for a reasonable price. Try Jeanne but Lanvin or Lovely D'or by Kristel Saint Martin...they are both very similar to Promesse. Although I favor Lovely D'or for its sillage and longevity.

Fuzzy blackberries? That's what this makes me think of; blackberries covered up in an itchy, fuzzy blanket. The berries and the other notes are somehow muted, but it's an enjoyable, light-hearted fragrance. Beautiful bottle too.

I just say I like it because it's not so creative. It smells like Feerie-Van Cleef and Arpels. Very nice bottle, charming, lovely but not surprising. If you like sweets you will like it. For young women.

I bought it when I was 22. I loved it dearly, and I still think it's a beautiful, delicate unforgettable perfume, but I just don't know when and where should I wear this now. Any tips? :)

Smells like mr. Bubbles from childhood, that is all I can think of every time I smell this fragrance... Amazing the power scent has to our memory bank."..

I wore it all 2005!!I liked it a lot and i smelled so black currant and sugary!!!

Nice fruity-floral scent. Blackberry jam + black locust. Color: folly pink.

Sweet , but lovely ......i like it , stays on skin very long and soft

It s quite intens, I love the aroma of this. It s very natural.

Simple, youthful fruity floral that's not worth the prices it's going for on the second-hand market (I bought a miniature before it became too unaffordable). Mostly blackberry, orchid and musk with fairly low projection. Nice, but nothing remarkable. The box mine came in is adorable though.

This is clearly well made, but reminds me of the smell of quality hair products more than perfume. I suppose that’s my age talking, but this is lacking architecture or interest. The bottle is gorgeous, however.

i wore this fragrance two years ago. i used to love it, especially because of its durability. i wore it in the morning, and i still got compliment for my scent in the afternoon. i stop wearing this since my dad dislike this scent so much. i still have half of the bottle, but i can't use it anymore 'cause recently the scent start to smell differently. it makes me really dizzy. the scent is too sweet and it just not suits me.