Chance: A rounded audacity for a perfume dedicated to Mademoiselle Chanel. Gabrielle Chanel always believed in her lucky star, in her chance. Fond of symbols and lucky charms, the famous Coco is the source of inspiration for this magnificent sparkling and bouncing juice, Chanel Chance.
It is customary to say that fortune favors the bold. In other words, to have luck, one must know how to create opportunities. Now, Gabrielle Chanel intimately believed in luck. She constantly carried numerous charms on her and was rather superstitious. It must be said that this worked well for her! For Gabrielle Chanel, true luck is the kind one knows how to create, provoke, and manage to seize. To pay tribute to this exceptional creator, while giving a nod to luck, the house of Chanel decided to create a perfume bearing this name, in 2002. Very different from Chanel's other fragrances, it was also a resounding success, as if luck had smiled on it. Here is our review of this fragrance and the reasons for women's enthusiasm toward it.
Olfastory’s review
Chance, a vibrant whirlwind of flowers
Chanel's Chance owes its existence to Jacques Polge, the house's former perfumer, who demonstrated unrivaled expertise. Here, he imagined the whirlwind of luck in its olfactory form. The result is a perfume as vibrant and lively as life itself. Chanel's Chance is a floral fragrance, synonymous with movement, happiness and fantasy. Displaying numerous contours, it is like an unpredictable woman, who never rests on her laurels. In this juice, flowers intertwine with other, fresher ingredients, as well as with spicier raw materials. At times, Chanel's Chance even turns gourmand. It owes its success to its profound diversity. Pairing jasmine and hyacinth at its heart, it is meant to be highly refined. To this, Chanel adds iris absolute, more powdery, yet just as elegant. Citron then comes to refresh the whole while mingling with pink pepper. An amber and woody veil finally traces its sillage, combining vetiver, patchouli and white musks. By blending such ingredients, Chanel evokes every facet of feminine personality, speaking to every woman. This is therefore one strong first element that explains women's keen interest in it.
The soft and rounded silhouette of Chanel's Chance
Moreover, if Chanel's Chance managed to spark interest from its very release, it is also thanks to its bottle. Indeed, unlike most of Chanel's cases, whose shape is typically very square and geometric, this one is a circle. Perfectly timeless, it is a promise of softness and purity. It also owes its existence to a true legend of the house of Chanel: Jacques Helleu, the house's artistic director, who joined Chanel's offices in 1956 and left them in 2007, barely a week before his death. A symbol of elegance, he seems to have poured all his expertise into this design, whose glass is simply ringed with silvery metal, as if to contain the wild energy locked within this glass case.