Candid
Bergamot and jasmine open Candid with a bright, fresh-floral clarity, the citrus burning off quickly to let the heart speak.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 18 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.
- Tuberose60
- Mossy60
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Jasmine
- Bergamot
- Tuberose
- Ylang-Ylang
- Sandalwood
- Oakmoss
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot and jasmine open Candid with a bright, fresh-floral clarity, the citrus burning off quickly to let the heart speak. That heart is serious: tuberose in full voice alongside ylang-ylang, heady and slightly creamy, the indolic register kept in check by the surrounding structure rather than softened. For 1977, this is a confident floral.
The base is a textbook mossy chypre — sandalwood, vetiver, patchouli, and oakmoss — providing a cool, earthy anchoring to what was a warm heart. Candid belongs to Avon's better pre-1980s catalog entries: a working-woman's floral with enough complexity to reward attention. Current stock likely reflects reformulation; oakmoss presence may vary.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
