I Am
I Am opens with a double-pepper accord — black pepper's drier bite and pink pepper's brighter, slightly fruity pop — alongside raspberry and bergamot, creating a dark-fruit opening with an edge of spice.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Amber60
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Raspberry
- Raspberry
- Pink Pepper
- Orange
- Bergamot
- Bergamot
By the editors · 2 min readI Am opens with a double-pepper accord — black pepper's drier bite and pink pepper's brighter, slightly fruity pop — alongside raspberry and bergamot, creating a dark-fruit opening with an edge of spice. The floral heart layers magnolia's creamy-green quality with jasmine depth and the powdery softness of violet and rose, neither purely sweet nor sharp.
The base is warm and substantial: sandalwood and benzoin give a smooth resinous body, amber and vanilla deepen it, vetiver adds an earthy counterpoint that prevents the base from becoming syrupy. The composition reads as confident and unisex — a modern oriental that's neither restrained nor excessive.
Scent twins
In this family
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