Chance Eau Fraîche

Chanel describes a floral-sparkling fragrance interweaving the zesty freshness of citron, the softness of jasmine and the vibrant presence of a teak wood note. The notes given at launch complete this trio with water hyacinth, vetiver, patchouli and white musks.

Top

Citron provides the zesty lift the house highlights. Wikipedia, which splits the launch notes into tiers, adds pink pepper, which the Now Smell This announcement of February 2007 does not mention.

Heart

Jasmine absolute forms the bouquet with water hyacinth, two flowers both named in the 2007 announcement. Wikipedia adds an iris absolute, which neither the house nor that announcement repeats.

Base

Teak wood, the woody note the house names today, rests on vetiver, an amber patchouli and white musks. Chanel calls its presence vibrant; the launch announcement makes it the base of this lighter version of Chance.

What the label declares

The list Chanel publishes for the Eau de Toilette has thirty-six entries. Right after water comes a synthetic wood, tetramethyl acetyloctahydronaphthalenes; the list also names lemon, bergamot and bitter orange oils, jasmine extract and patchouli oil.

It lists one UV filter, two colorants, CI 19140 and CI 42090, and the regulated allergens, including limonene, linalool, citral, citronellol, geraniol, coumarin, benzyl benzoate and benzyl alcohol. Vanillin, santalol and a musky lactone, hexadecanolactone, also appear.

What stays out

The lemon, rose and amber woods sometimes attributed to the fragrance appear neither in the house’s statements nor in the launch announcement; the amber patchouli remains a patchouli. The chypre family attributed to it is not the house’s, which calls it floral.