Candy, the gourmand fragrance signed by Prada. Since the release of Thierry Mugler's Angel, feminine perfumery seems to swear only by gourmand notes. Prada clearly rode this trend by creating, in 2011, a fragrance named Candy. This colorful juice combines ingredients as succulent as candy itself.
The Candy fragrance, Prada's scented candy. While the house of Prada offered us its Infusions as magnificent immersions in delicate and fragrant lands, Daniela Andrier and Miuccia Prada chose to break this olfactory quietude with a sparkling Candy, overloaded with sugars. Candy is a gourmand surprise that presents itself as the promise of a journey between assertive femininity and sugary childhood.
Olfastory’s review
Candy, or Daniela Andrier's explosive confection for Miuccia Prada
The house of Prada's fragrances have almost all been created by the same perfumer since the brand's beginnings with Amber in 2004: the great and highly imaginative Daniela Andrier. For the perfumer, as for her charismatic boss Miuccia Prada, fragrance is the intimate link between past, present and future. This is how Les Infusions was conceived, as well as the lovely Candy, released in 2011.
For beneath the guise of a fragrance of excess for lively, playful young women, the lovely Candy also does not hesitate to play on the elegance of iris to draw in women fond of retro notes. An iris that, moreover, bears the signature of its creator, deeply enamored of this pure and delicate note, which she notably showcased in Infusion d'Iris.
Thus with Candy, the house of Prada situates itself not only within the trend but also within a lovely floral and powdery past, so as to become even more timeless—a quality Daniela Andrier considers necessary to any good fragrance.
A good fragrance? One that has a soul and the ability to bring us back to lost realms, full of echoes of our own memory. It lies in resonance, and does not speak only of itself. A good fragrance is emotion. Daniela Andrier for Les Echos.
Between floral femininities and overdosed vanilla gourmand character, Candy leaves no one indifferent
Candy plays on different registers to surprise us, shifting between facets that are at times very gourmand and childlike, at times floral and very feminine, at times sensual and intoxicating. Yet whatever face one seeks to discover in Candy, it is characterized by excess, by the overdosing of raw materials, as with benzoin or caramel.
The Prada Candy fragrance presents a new olfactory balance, combining ingredients of exceptional quality in excessive proportions. Prada on Candy Eau de Parfum.
Thus Candy opens on floral notes and very chic floral notes, recalling the house's most recent creations such as Infusion d'Iris or Infusion de Fleur d'Oranger. Then at the heart we discover a precious vanilla that develops at an impressive concentration (12%), the better to be captured in the cottony threads of white musks. Finally, the gourmand depths of caramel and the sensuality of the mysterious, enveloping heliotrope nestle within the powdery delicacies of violet and iris.
Prada Candy seduces instantly. It is an explosion of rose and gold, revealing a new facet of Prada's femininity. Prada on Candy.