Yes I Am

How to start this? I have this lifetime love for Chacharel. Eden, LouLou, Anais Anais and of course I also like the clothes. Some. It's eccentric. Chacharel has this "red line." Présent even in the parfumés from Chacharel that I don't like. Yet the red line is there. Do they demand that? I don't know. It's there. The eccentricity. Not the fake one. Yes, fake eccentricity also exist. Look around you. Think why Galliano is best living fashion designer and why Gaga is faker. He is honest eccentric, she is made up eccentric. There you go. It's very honest, innocent eccentricity connected to Chacharel. This fragnance is part of that. I wanna make myself clear. This name Yes I am is...one big nothing. It doesn't fit to this scent and in general it says nothing about this scent. Whoever decided to call this composition Yes I am, check your brains. Not the marketing section of the company. I hate the name. Next is how Chacharel decided to commercialise this scent. Seriously? With diversity lunacy, while skipping big, probably the most important part! RED lipstick! That young diverse one runs around spraying herself, while NOT wearing red lipstick, while bottle is red lipstick? Ridiculous! Chacharel, either get yourself together or is this the beginning of your end?! STOP pleasing Chacharel! You never pleased. It's not you! Does Chacharel wanna tell us, that these tweaking yungs walk around wearing red lipstick the symbol of the femininity?Well, they don't and they won't. They wear tennis shoes with hand purses for God's sake! Youngsters are not into red lipstick, searching perfect red to fit their skin tone. They are not able to dress themselves suitable! In big big mayority they are tasteless and indoctrinated sheeps. They are not real individuals. They can't stand or deal CHARACTER! This parfumé is a character. They are not eccentric naturally. This parfumé is. THIS FRAGNANCE STANDS OUT. They don't. Facts. Like it or not. Bottle is not beautiful. It's special. It's eccentric. I like it. I mean. I wear red lipstick. Many. Almost every day. But does this bottle fit to this composition? NO. This perfume needs other name, other commercial and other bottle and no clones! I hate clones. Honorine Blanc and Christophe Raynaud. I am not positive about their work. Except this perfume...till now. Top notes: Raspberry, Mandarin, Orange, Bergamot and Lemon. Fresh, strong opening. Very good balanced with that calming down vibration that stays till dry-down takes over. Dry-down is btw very very nice. Is this opening sweet? No. It's citrus slap! Raspberry has the smell without tasting it. Like Bergamot does! It's more green smell, than so called sweet. It's green sparkling! Wonderful. Then the alien-like heaviness comes in. It's divine. Crazy. Edgy. Eccentric. Powerful. That Gardenia and Ginger flower! Unbelievable! Fantastic! Middle notes: Gardenia, Ginger flower, Amber, Jasmine, Orange Blossom and Rose, there is something else here, I think and smell Aquatic. A lot of orange blossoms which are wonderful in any way shape or form! Giving that final touch with Jasmin and amber. Jasmin is a note that many many times breaks compositions, I notice how badly parfumers rule this masculine note. White in radiation but masculine. Here Jasmin give another crazy touch and didn't break the composition. Then something interesting happens. When these notes settle you think, that's it. No no. Then everything starts. The wild dance of these notes jumping out whenever they want as strongly as they act with your skin. Crazy! And gets worse... Base notes are Milk, Caramel, Vanilla, Cardamom, Licorice, Coumarin, Benzoin, Sandalwood and Amberwood You think it calms down easily? Ahh no no no. It needs strong base...and again like perfumes did a mistake. Giving to crazy Middle notes, splashed with greatly blended Top notes some milk and caramel essence! Licorice that I usually don't like and it gets even more radiant and crazy. Blended all over wonderful spices choice and woody touch. Synthetic molecules of coumarin resembles the deliciously sweet scent of tonka bean, with its distinctly warm notes of caramelized almonds and freshly cut hay. Benzoin offers distinctly rich scents of woody, sweet vanilla. Its layered composition unfolds in warm, honeyed facets not dissimilar to caramel, almond or freshly roasted coffee. Subtle floral notes awaken slight nuances of carnations in soft, wispy or even powdery tones. Lasting very very long, stays in the clothes even after washing. The ginger and Jasmin say hi to you. Making you laugh! You go to sleep, nude, cardamom and Bergamot say hi. You walk the dog, gardenia and amberwood say hi. You eat your dinner sandalwood and ginger say hi. And so on...you can smell top notes literally next day! During the sleep it offers you milk. It's a fragnance with wity sense of humor. With deepness and with character. Very charismatic! Going on endlessly. It's wonderful. Unpredictable fragnance. And that I love. My husband knows I love that. He bought this fragnance to me.

oh my goodness, this is my type of airport fragrance. i've been wearing this to bed, and it's definitely a traveling, wanderlust perfume and i'm not really sure if i make any sense when i describe certain fragrances to be "airport perfumes" but when you smell them, you'll understand. immediately what my nose picked up on, upon first spray at least, was one of the earlier tease formulations from victoria's secret which is a perfume that was a favorite of mine because of its raunchy femininity. this has the same type of scent but dries down to a much creamier and gourmand type of perfume while tease (earlier formulation) is sharp and a bit spicy and raunchy floral and flirty. the shape of the bottle is freakin gorgeous but it is not a lipstick fragrance! no waxy or powdery lipstick vibes but definitely romantic and flirtatious and quite elegant but elegant in the way that i can wear because you know how with elegant perfumes, there is such thing as being too elegant (for me 😅) and i don't tend to gravitate towards the super ladylike fragrances except maybe a delicate spicy floral but this is just right. 💄💝 the opening definitely has those sharper and brighter notes of raspberry and bergamot and the drydown definitely has the milk and caramel and sandalwood goodness. kinda want to try some of the flankers now, especially pink first and glorious. would definitely recommend this to anyone who likes sweet perfumes. it's got a sort of doll vibe also that i like. oh and the bottle does not put me off one bit, in fact it adds to the appeal of this flirty and kitschy perfume 🌹🎀 💋

Sticky Sweet RED-BERRY PAVLOVA. Let's start with the bottle, which has an excellent sprayer, but it's kinda gimmick-y - love it or hate it. It's better in the 30mL size for a purse spray, but the 100mL will look cheap on your perfume shelf. Opens with a sweet burst of red-fruit with raspberry & citrus tones, that deepens into the white-floral heart with fluffy, creamy, sweet, soft-spicy & near-grape tones, all resting on a creamy caramel base with licorice & almond-cherry tones from tonka. Jasmine is more forward here than the notes would suggest, bringing near-grape & licorice tones. There is also a faint but pleasant clean laundry note in there, coming from the orange-blossom. Altogether I get a full-bodied red-berry amber-floral that is nearly a gourmand, with a creaminess that reminds me of the crunchy, sticky baked meringue shell in Pavlova. This is so close to a gourmand IMHO that most will consider it one. Has excellent performance and a scent profile that could be worn year round but together with strong performance I would be more likely to wear it in fall & winter. Contrast to My Only Wish La Rive: This is a dupe with a good approximation of Yes I Am, only it has much lighter performance that works well in summer. However, the performance is improved with dark storage following first sprays. Overall: Beautiful red-berry gourmand-ish scent profile with excellent performance. It's a love for me. Enjoy!

Raspberries, sweetened condensed milk, gardenia, cardamom, licorice and a tiny amount of coffee which does not sound like accords that would go together but somehow work. Musk isn't listed as a note but I'm getting musk or something with a similar profile. Yes I Am is delicious in a flavor-enhanced food kind of way, like a favorite salty casserole made with canned soup. You know it's not culinary school approved but it's still delicious and you can't get it to taste the same without the monosodium glutamate augment. I can't help but think there is a tiny bit of something savory about Yes I Am. Umami. I don't know what they add to make me keep smelling my wrist but it's in there. Hits the dopamine receptors just so, you can almost feel on heightened alert or your pupils dilate in response. Addictive in the same way that Gucci Rush or Lou Lou are even though they are nothing alike. Something about Yes I Am is never completely satiating so my primitive brain centers say gimme gimme more Cookie Monster style. Olfactory MSG. 7/10 Update: I'm getting musk in this but it's not listed as a note.

I smelled this and instantly was reminded of less complex Lolita Lempicka. I get strong notes of licorice mixed with a gourmand/creaminess to it and a lesser amount of florals. I find the berry smell fades quick which I prefer because I don't usually like fruity perfumes. I think this is one of those scents that you need to spray on and give it a few minutes to settle in. It is such a warm, cozy, sweater-weather scent. I wouldn't say it's very strong, but I personally don't like strong scents. I like something that sits close to the skin. This perfume feels cozy and snug. To me it smells more expensive than it is... something that you want to smell again because of the layers of scents like Lolita or Alien. If they aren't in the budget, this might be a contender for you! I don't think I'd have the same reaction to this in the summer/spring. To me it's too rich and warm - it's a snuggle in front of the fireplace with a warm caramel latte and raspberry cheesecake kind of scent.

This perfume is so good and so affordable it blows my mind. I love this fragrance. It starts off with a juicy, tart raspberry and lemon note that almost makes your mouth water. That doesn’t last long but it develops into this cardamom, caramel, lactonic, woody, vanillic dream of a scent. It’s rich, it’s sweet, it’s smooth, it’s sexy, it’s gourmand, it’s a little mysterious with the cardamom, ginger, and tiny touch of licorice. My only complaints are that I wish it lasted longer on me, it’s about a 4 hour scent for me. But the scent is amazing so I don’t mind having to respray, and for the price point it’s really not a huge deal. Bonus, when you respray you can experience the opening again. And my other minor complaint is that the atomizer on these bottles is not very good, you have to spray twice to get the amount any other full bottle atomizer provides. However, for for this absolutely beautiful scent, I am happy to spray my atomizer double.

I thought this was going to be one level and a cute fruity / gourmand scent after looking at how affordable it is but it's so much more! It's so soothing as weird as that sounds. You do get that typical fruity blast when first sprayed but it's deep and strong in my opnion! Could smell it on my sweatshirt all through the next day! Immediately as it starts drying down you get the white floral, citrus, and absolutely yummy lactonic vibe that stays with you. I cant really detect any ginger. I do get the gardenia (which I typically hate) but it blends really nicely with the other base notes! It's a gourmand for people who typically dislike gourmands - even though the bottle (that I love btw) looks younger, it leans "mature" in my opinion (wear whatever the F you want at any age, of course)! For the price this is a no brainer to try! Saw some gift sets at Ross for 19.99 with a full and mini size :)

Sweet unlike other gourmands. Unlike typical sweet scents, this fragrance smells like hard candy, a rare scent in the perfume world imo. Most candy gourmands smell of marshmallow, cotton candy, chocolate, cake or vanilla. We don't get many hard candy scents. Yes I Am's aroma is akin to a blue raspberry lollipop, and I find it absolutely delicious. While some may label it as a generic scent, I strongly disagree because I have never encountered anything quite like it. Although there is a plethora of sweet fragrances available, this one stands out in its own way. When my boyfriend first smelled it, it triggered memories of unwrapping a particular toy. Although we couldn't pinpoint the exact toy it resembles, it's fascinating how both of us immediately associated it with a toy. Beyond its delectable scent, the perfume also carries a nostalgic charm. 8/10

I work in fragrance. I have tried a spritz of this one here and there over the last couple of years and liked it, but was hesitant being that its a Cacharel and niche. None of the other Cacharel work for me. I've had this fragrance in my online cart for months umming and erring. My boss gifted us all a fresh bottle fragrance of our choice at Christmas time and I already knew that out of the large boxes of frags that what I wanted wasn't there. " I know what I'd love, and it's not in those boxes, it's sounds weird, but its Cacharel....".. & I finally got my hands on YIA 🥰 this might just be what I've been searching for, for most of my adult life. Warm, sweet, spicy. Almost a mandarin-berry & Cola vibe. This, until further notice, is my signature scent. She's like the slightly less cutesy, but warm & sweet, older sister to YSL Black Opium. Yummy!!!!

Love it! This scent makes me happy. Bought it blindly influenced by some reviews on youtube, and I'm so glad I did! Btw, in one of the videos, this girl was making her boyfriend blind smell some perfumes and rating them. He rated it a 10/10. Sexy, spicy, delicious. He didn't know which perfume it was until later. Many other niche brand perfumes, that cost 10 times this one were left out or ranked lower. This is the cheap, nice gourmand sexy perfume I was looking for. Not overly sweet, ideal for a night out or date. Recommend. NOTE! Also...to those people talking about the tacky bottle...I just can say...I prefer this bottle than those awful shoe bottles from Carolina herrera perfumes for sure. And I don't like those scents either. And they cost much more. Just saying.

What an interesting perfume! I was so lucky to find the 1oz bottle of this at Marshall's for $14.99! The bottle itself is so amusing, and I had heard good things about Cacharel scents, so I scooped it up fast. The notes were so intruiging to me, as I love anything gourmand, especially lactonic, creamy, vanilla/caramel scents. This perfume opens with the most lovely, bright fruit note; I can smell the citrus and berries first, then the white florals start to shine. Once it dries down, you can really start to smell the milky caramel and vanilla. On my skin, I smell mostly the sweet notes, but on my son's skin, we could really smell the spicy notes, such as the cardamom and ginger. This is all around a beautiful, complex, interesting scent that I am so happy I tried.

This was the last scent I was buying for my mum for xmas, but it only arrived the 2nd Jan. As a big fan of Britney Spears Fantasy, YSL Black Opium and more recently Amor Amor by Cacharel (it was in the big bundle I gave her), this lines up with her taste super well. It's a raspberry milkshake with caramel scent, with a nice undercurrent of Gardenia and liquorice to give it depth. It's a touch more mature than Fantasy, but in a "'I'm the fun aunt" rather than "I'm your great aunt" sort of way. Longevity is a little underwhelming at the 5 hour mark on my skin,but projection is pretty solid. More casual than professional, but I can't see a reason this couldn't be worn any time the mood strikes. A little more suited for cold weather than warm. Good stuff.

I’m curious about the reviews stating it smells like grapes. On me, it’s a milky white floral. Contrary to the A.I in the ‘cons’ section, I wouldn’t say the bottle looks like a ‘chavvy dildo’ either. I’m not much of a packaging person, and the bottle does look tacky in photographs, but it’s very cute in person— better than having a literal shoe on your vanity table, at the very least. It’s worth purchasing if you like scents like Alien, Don’t Be Shy, or Libre Intense, because it has that same gourmandy, vanilla orange blossom/jasmine scent to it. If you don’t then I wouldn’t recommend purchasing this, unless you happen to be one of those people it smells like grape on, and that’s something you’re into. I’d say it lasts about six hours maximum.

My perfect combination of notes—if I could just figure out what they are! Best guess is fruity amber (or fruity sandalwood) with just a little caramel and a tiny bit of vanilla. I don’t really get the lactonic note that others have mentioned (I think that’s the note that’s reading as vanilla caramel for me). Yes I Am is very close to Dylan Purple (perhaps not surprising since Christophe Raynaud had a hand —er, nose in both). FWIW, layering Dylan Purple and D&G Pour Femne gets almost an exact fragrance match to YIA. I got this in a gift set of adorable minis: a trio of little lipstick bottles not much bigger than actual tubes of lipsticks. (Contents: Yes I Am, YIA Glorious and YIA Bloom Up.) They look so sweet on my dresser!

This smells unexpectedly good to me, because I'll be honest I was expecting to dislike it just based on the lipstick bottle. It's fruity, herbal and creamy on the skin. I wouldn't say the raspberry is distinctively raspberry- more of a general red berry, almost cherry note to my nose (edit: okay, other people are getting cherry too, so that’s not just me). I love that I can pick up on cardamom, ginger, and milk- the effect is like a fruity cardamom tea latte. The notes in this whole Yes I Am line give me "fancy, milky beverage" vibes, which is one of my favorite imaginary categories of smells (and IMO wholly unrelated to lipstick). I can't wait to try the flankers!

First spray is a punch of candied raspberries and orange, followed by a creamy licorice and then after 10 mins, transforms into a delicious cakey, fruity caramel that you just want to snuggle up to. This perfume actually stopped me in my tracks at the airport - I slowed down and said “what smells like vanilla cake?” I searched and found it, so glad I did. It is one of my new favorites and will definitely stay a signature for a long time. The perfect sweet perfume that is not cloying and that EVERYONE loves!! ❤️ Sorry to say it, but I also love the bottle, even though it is a bit juvenile it is still fun and practical. A good grip and an easy nozzle to spray.

Yes I Am is a beautiful designer fragrance which is such an excellent find. I have both niche and designer so for what it’s worth I think after 30 years of collecting fragrances I kinda know what good on me and what’s not. I love this type of spicy vanilla. Being a lover of cardamom and licorice this is right up my alley. It’s smells amazing and the lasting power is also very good. FYI, I over spray.If you like a great unusual vanilla with some spice. Highly recommeded 9/10 I’m sick of all the negative reviews here on Fragranctica it starts to get annoying....it’s like nobody has anything nice to say in this world! Sorry had to vent!!!!

I ADORE THIS!!!!! This is a beautiful creamy, soft spicy scent bursting with raspberries, caramel, vanilla and its lactonic qualities closely resemble the smell of sweet condensed milk and its florals blend in seamlessly to support these. This beauty especially shines in the breeze in both warm and cold weather accentuating the beautiful soft spicy creaminess it has. I'm not someone who leans towards fruity perfumes but this one just feels perfect. It is beautifully sweet and fruity without feeling juvenile and I can see a very ample age range wearing this. It has become one of my favorites and I'm simply in love.

Really enjoyed this perfume! It is a creamy, jasmine with spice. It is quite sweet but perfect for the cold weather because that's when the spice really comes out. Not your basic vanilla at all. I can smell all the beautiful middle and base notes (though I can't really smell the milk). In the beginning, there is almost a "menthol" and "licorice" smell but that just brightens up the sweetness in my opinion. Edit: after testing multiple perfumes, I must say, I prefer this over some designer perfumes out there. This does not smell cheap at all and doesn't give me a headache, which most perfumes do.

I got it from the $21 rack at Shoppers and upon sniff, straight from the bottle, I was disappointed. I got my husband to smell it on paper to see if he liked it and he did, he said that it reminded him of sour gummy candy. And I can absolutely smell that now. It smells exactly like the fizzy cola gummies. It lasts forever on my skin and the next morning when I go to shower I can smell a lovely gourmand caramel on my skin. It is warm and delicious. Very comforting :) I am in love. Thought I should throw in the shade toward the bottle though. Ugly, ugly ugly ugly bottle lmao.