Cándido López
Cándido López begins with guaiac wood, its resinous smoke and green sap immediately announcing a dry, almost medicinal timber character that feels stripped of sweetness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Rose50
- Tobacco50
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Guaiac Wood
- Rose
- Rose
- Tobacco
- Tobacco
By the editors · 2 min readCándido López begins with guaiac wood, its resinous smoke and green sap immediately announcing a dry, almost medicinal timber character that feels stripped of sweetness. The dual rose heart layers in a cool, petal-pink acidity that softens the wood’s edge without adding sugar, creating a narrow accord that smells like rosewater spilled on a workbench. As the tobacco twin in the base warms up, it folds the earlier smoke into a leafier, hay-like curve, letting the composition relax into a calm, papery dusk. Wear is skin-close after ninety minutes, leaving a quiet whiff of cured leaf and pale wood that clings to cuffs. Projection stays intimate; the scent works best in cool, dry weather and suits low-lit autumn evenings or solitary studio days when you want the air to smell like an old sketchbook.
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.
