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Chance Eau Vive

Chance Eau Vive is the fourth interpretation of Chance, launched by Chanel in June 2015. Olivier Polge created the formula, the first Chance he composed for the house. Chanel describes it as a floral-zesty fragrance: grapefruit and blood orange open it, a jasmine heart carries it, and cedar and iris accords close it, in the line’s round bottle.

Brand
Chanel
Launch year
2015
Perfumer
Gender
Women
Olfactory family
Floral
Secondary family
Citrus
Concentration
Eau de Toilette
EAN
3145891265507 (50 ml) · 3145891265606 (100 ml) · 3145891265705 (150 ml)

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Chance Eau Vive

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Chanel launched Chance Eau Vive in June 2015, thirteen years after Jacques Polge’s first Chance. The fourth interpretation of the line, after the original, Eau Fraîche in 2007 and Eau Tendre in 2010, it arrived at the house’s points of sale on June 12, in 50 and 100 ml bottles.

Olivier Polge’s first Chance

Olivier Polge, the son of Jacques Polge, composed this variation. It is the first fragrance of the Chance line that he signed; he would later give it two eaux de parfum, for Eau Tendre in 2019 and for Eau Fraîche in 2023.

A chance to seize

The house presents Eau Vive as a floral-zesty fragrance in a bottle with round lines, a wave of energy that sweeps you into a whirlwind of happiness. It ties it to the phrase by Gabrielle Chanel that runs through the whole line: “A chance came up, I seized it.”

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

What critics say

In 2015, Persolaise considered Eau Vive the liveliest of the Chance waters, with a grapefruit full of bite, while regretting that Olivier Polge had signed a variation rather than an entirely new perfume.

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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.

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Jean-Paul Goude, 2015

In 2015, Jean-Paul Goude filmed a bowling game in which a young woman rolls a bottle of Eau Vive to join the Chance team.

Chanel entrusted the campaign to Jean-Paul Goude, author of many of the house’s images since Égoïste and of the films for the Chance line. The film is set in an imaginary bowling alley: to join the Chance team, a young woman grabs a bottle of Eau Vive and sends it down the lane.

Under the gaze of three other young women, she bowls a strike and joins the team. Chanel unveiled a first teaser on June 8, 2015, and released the film worldwide on June 10, in fifteen- and thirty-second versions.

From the same line

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

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