Prada: Prada Candy Night
A mid-century modern house, just as evening falls, all tangerine dreams and avocado greens. Gold-veined mirrors and plush velvet add texture against soft caramel colored wood accents.
The subtle scent of a soft black leather shoulder bag: spearmint gum-filled. Inside, you’ll also find a tube of rose-petal lipstick and the powdery iris notes of a pressed powder compact.
Prada Candy Night is full of rich chocolate and creamy neroli, but its iris and bitter orange notes lie against a sweet vanilla and tonka bean base that make it a gourmand and a makeup style scent.
It’s always been presented as something of a “party” scent for modern night clubbers, but to me it has an undeniable air of old Hollywood glamour.
It carries incredibly strong and personal scent memories for me, but even if you don’t have any firsthand experience of such an era or of places like the ones I describe, I wonder if you’ll catch a whiff of what I’m talking about?
If you aren’t married to the idea of this perfume being a dark, sexy scent for glitzy dance parties, I wonder if you can let it transport you to a quieter place? But one where there’s still a definite sense of night time excitement, just slightly more peaceful in the way some Scandinavian art deco event might be—serene but with a clean, smooth retro-modern aesthetic that feels rich yet more naturalistic. The starlets who come to this event are art collectors accompanied by jazz musicians, and there are a couple of philosophers or perhaps a random scientist sitting in some corner tending to deep and important matters while drinking a Negroni too quickly.
