Prada Candy is the eau de parfum Daniela Andrier composed for Prada in 2011, a gourmand oriental the house calls explosive, addictive and sensual. It combines white musks, benzoin and a touch of caramel in excessive proportions, over a vanilla base, dressed in pink and gold.
The house sums up Candy in three materials, white musks, benzoin and a touch of caramel, combined in excessive proportions. In detail, it places caramel at the top, musks and powdery notes at the heart, vanilla and benzoin in the base.
An overdosed benzoin
Benzoin, a balsamic resin with vanilla accents, takes center stage. Robin, on Now Smell This, reports a 12% dosage, and The Silver Fox, on ÇaFleureBon, a use well beyond the usual proportions, which wraps the wearer in a resinous halo.
Caramel and white musks
Caramel gives the fragrance a golden glow, which The Silver Fox calls honeyed in the drydown. White musks and powdery notes soften its gourmand side; Victoria, on Bois de Jasmin, smells the dry woods more than the buttery caramel.
What the label declares
The label opens with denatured alcohol, fragrance and water. Two UV filters, butyl methoxydibenzoylmethane and benzophenone-3, protect the juice along with BHT, an antioxidant.
The declared allergens are linalool, alpha-isomethyl ionone, benzyl benzoate, hydroxycitronellal, coumarin, isoeugenol, limonene and benzyl alcohol. One colorant, red 4, gives the juice its tint.
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