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.

“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.