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They all share the same spirit

Posted by Robin on 27 March 2025 Leave a Comment

It started off in 2003. For the people who don’t know it as well as you, I always remind them that it is made of five totally different perfumes. You could look for certain raw materials in common, but I think that’s going down the wrong path. I think they all share the same spirit. I like the freshness. I think they are very colorful. They are very bright. They are direct. At the end of the day, perfume is not intellectual. You have to feel something about it; you have to feel a bond to a scent.

— Chanel perfumer Olivier Polge on the Chance fragrances, including the new Chance Eau Splendide. Read more in Exclusive: Chanel Is Launching a New Chance Perfume, Eau Splendide at Harper's Bazaar.

Chanel Chance Eau Splendide ~ new perfume

Posted by Robin on 26 March 2025 6 Comments

Chanel has launched Chance Eau Splendide, a new fruity floral fragrance for women. Chance Eau Splendide is a flanker to 2002’s Chanel Chance, and follows 2015’s Chance Eau Vive…

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Chanel Allure Homme Sport Superleggera ~ new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 23 July 2024 3 Comments

Chanel will launch Allure Homme Sport Superleggera, a new limited edition fragrance for men. Allure Homme Sport Superleggera is a flanker to 2004’s Allure Homme Sport, which was a flanker to 1998’s Allure Homme…

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You have to create a fantasy

Posted by Robin on 3 May 2024 Leave a Comment

“Once you find an idea that you feel is meaningful—and this is the part I like—you have to create a fantasy, and in the case of Comète it was quite visual,” [Olivier Polge] says. The perfumer began thinking about stardust, equating the light traced by cosmic particles across the night sky to the olfactory trail left hanging in the air by a fragrance. That gave him the idea to create a perfume that was simultaneously powdery and luminous—two types of scent often considered mutually exclusive in the world of fragrance.

— Read more in Chanel Looks to the Cosmos With Its New Perfume, Comète at Harper's Bazaar.

Chanel Comete ~ new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 22 February 2024 14 Comments

Chanel will launch Comète, a new addition to the Les Exclusifs collection. The name echoes a motif from the brand’s 1932 high jewelry collection (repeated in the more recent Comète jewelry collection), and is also used in the more recently formed Comète Collective initiative under Chanel Beauty…

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