eye candy vs visual percept

eye candy and visual percept both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
eye candy	Yes	No	No	No
visual percept	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, visual percept is a hypernym of eye candy; that is, visual percept is a word with a broader meaning than eye candy:

eye candy: visual images that are pleasing to see but are intellectually undemanding
visual percept: a percept that arises from the eyes; an image in the visual system

Other hypernyms of eye candy include visual image.

eye candy (noun)	visual percept (noun)
visual images that are pleasing to see but are intellectually undemanding	a percept that arises from the eyes; an image in the visual system