Chance Eau Tendre

Chance Eau Tendre is a clear fruity floral, built on a contrast of citrus and poached fruit, which white musks soften.

The materials

Published lists agree on the opening: grapefruit and quince. The center holds two flowers, hyacinth and jasmine. The base brings together white musks, Virginia cedar and amber, with an iris that lists place now among the flowers, now with the base.

Such convergence is rare for a widely distributed fragrance. One reading alone departs from it, Elena Vosnaki's, which adds melon to the opening and remains the only one to name it.

What the composition owes the original

Chance, in 2002, rested on an accord of grapefruit, patchouli, vanilla and musk. Eau Tendre keeps the citrus, drops nearly all the patchouli, and replaces the gourmand base with clear musks and dry wood.

What the label declares

The list begins with alcohol, fragrance and water. Then come two UV filters, ethylhexyl methoxycinnamate and butyl methoxydibenzoylmethane, an ethylhexyl salicylate, and two colorants, CI 60730 and CI 14700, which give the juice its pink tint.

The rest is the allergen declaration: alpha-isomethyl ionone, linalool, citronellol, limonene, hydroxycitronellal, hexyl cinnamal, geraniol, benzyl benzoate. No lilial, no lyral. The printed formula code is IL36-1.