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Chance Eau Tendre

Chance Eau Tendre is the floral, fruity variation on Chance, launched by Chanel on April 2, 2010. Jacques Polge sets grapefruit and quince over a heart of hyacinth and jasmine, closed by white musks, cedar and amber. The line's round bottle turns pale pink here.

Brand
Chanel
Launch year
2010
Perfumer
Gender
Women
Olfactory family
Floral
Secondary family
Fruity
Concentration
Eau de Toilette
EAN
3145891262902 (35 ml) · 3145891263107 (50 ml) · 3145891263206 (100 ml) · 3145891263305 (150 ml)

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Chance Eau Tendre

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April 2010. Chanel adds a third eau to Chance, more floral and more fruity than the previous ones, aimed at a younger buyer.

A line born in 2002

Chance opened the line in 2002. Chanel has worked the idea through successive eaux, Eau Fraîche in 2007, Eau Tendre in 2010, Eau Vive in 2015. Each keeps the name, the round bottle and the theme of luck one makes for oneself.

Jacques Polge

Chance Eau Tendre is the work of Jacques Polge, the house perfumer since 1978, to whom we owe Coco and Égoïste. He gives a soft reading of it, more floral and less patchouli-heavy than the 2002 original.

Not to be confused with the 2019 eau de parfum

Chanel released a Chance Eau Tendre Eau de Parfum in 2019, composed by Olivier Polge, son of Jacques and house perfumer since 2015. Rose and jasmine take more room there. It is another juice, under a neighboring label.

Olfactory pyramid

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

What critics say

Elena Vosnaki finds the softness of Chance Eau Tendre beneath the house's standing: she hears a mass-market fragrance rather than a Chanel.

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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

LongevityShort
Fleeting3 votesAll day
SillageModerate
Intimate2 votesOverpowering

Season

Summer50 %
1 vote
Spring50 %
1 vote

Occasion

Day100 %
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The advertising

Sigrid Agren, through Goude's lens

Chanel handed the 2010 campaign to Jean-Paul Goude, who photographed French model Sigrid Agren for the launch.

The launch campaign is signed by Jean-Paul Goude. He photographs Sigrid Agren, a French model, in a pared-down image where the pink of the juice commands everything and the bottle holds the center.

Goude has worked for Chanel since 1990. We owe him Égoïste, with its women shouting from hotel balconies, and Coco, with Vanessa Paradis as a caged bird. He has signed the successive eaux of Chance.

The line kept that signature through to Eau Vive in 2015, whose film stages a bowling alley where bottles replace the balls, with Rianne van Rompaey, Sigrid Agren, Cindy Bruna and Romy Schonberger.

From the same line

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

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