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Chance Eau de Parfum

Chance Eau de Parfum is the rounder version of Chance, the floral Jacques Polge composed for Chanel and which the house unveiled in 2002. Chanel describes it as a floral fragrance intertwining pink pepper, jasmine and amber patchouli; white musks and vanilla make the eau de parfum more enveloping. It comes in the line’s round bottle.

Brand
Chanel
Launch year
2005
Perfumer
Gender
Women
Olfactory family
Floral
Concentration
Eau de Parfum
EAN
3145891264302 (35 ml) · 3145891264203 (50 ml) · 3145891265200 (100 ml)

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Chance Eau de Parfum

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Chanel unveiled Chance in 2002. Jacques Polge, then the house’s perfumer, signed the formula. The New York Times saw it as a Chanel push toward young women, the hardest market for the house. The eau de toilette opened the line, and the rounder eau de parfum joined it later.

A chance to seize

The house built Chance around a phrase of Gabrielle Chanel: “A chance came up, I seized it.” It describes an unpredictable chance, appearing where one least expects it, with only a few seconds to seize it; true chance, for Mademoiselle Chanel, was the one she created.

Chanel now presents the eau de parfum as a floral fragrance, unpredictable and always in motion, sweeping one into a whirlwind of happiness and fantasy. It offers it in 35, 50 and 100 ml sprays.

A whole line

Chance opened a line of variations: Eau Fraîche in 2007, Eau Tendre in 2010, Eau Vive in 2015, an eau de parfum version of Eau Tendre in 2019 and Eau Splendide in 2025. All of them keep the round bottle of the first Chance.

Olfactory pyramid

  1. Top notesThe first minutes
  2. Heart notesThe heart of the perfume
  3. Base notesWhat lingers

What critics say

In 2013, Suzanna of Bois de Jasmin named Chance the Chanel she likes least, with a patchouli that is too sharp, while granting it the ease of a casual fragrance.

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On the blog

  • Chance by Chanel: the whole line, from 2002 to 2025

    Launched in 2002 by Jacques Polge, Chance now counts eight pages: the eau de toilette, the eau de parfum, Eau Fraîche, Eau Tendre, Eau Vive, the eaux de parfum of Eau Tendre and Eau Fraîche, and Eau Splendide, signed by Olivier Polge in 2025.

What the community says

LongevityLong
Fleeting1 voteAll day
SillageGenerous
Intimate2 votesOverpowering

Season

Winter50 %
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Spring50 %
1 vote

Occasion

Evening100 %
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The advertising

Anne Vyalitsyna and Jean-Paul Goude

The face of Chance since its first campaign, Anne Vyalitsyna returned to the fragrance in 2011 in a playful film by Jean-Paul Goude.

Anne Vyalitsyna lent her face to Chance from the fragrance’s very first campaign, while still a teenager, barely a year after being discovered. Some ten years later, in 2011, Chanel made her the face of the fragrance once again.

Jean-Paul Goude, a close collaborator of the house since 1990, directed this new film. Dressed head to toe in Chanel, the model plays with the fragrance’s round bottle in an edit full of whimsical effects, carried by a joyful energy.

From the same line

The whole line on the blog: Chance by Chanel: the whole line, from 2002 to 2025

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