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The best fragrances for passenger elevators / Part 1
Sometime last summer, way too short. Finally! The package has arrived. I ordered the EdP Rosa Nobile by Acqua di Parma for my rose scent collection. I don't know it, but if at least two people call it the best rose scent ever, I want it.
That childlike joy when you open the package ... And then? An unordered, unfamiliar box stares back at me from the packaging:
Chance Eau Tendre, an EdT by Chanel.
A misdelivery. I have no idea what this fragrance is. Of course, I am disappointed. The package has come a long way, and I waited a long time for it.
And now I'm supposed to send the whole thing back - possibly at my expense - to Spain or somewhere?
Chanel is, after all, a big brand. And I got a bottle with a whole 100 ml, which normally costs between € 100, - and € 190, - in the trade.
Uncertain I look at the emphatically simple, pale purple box.
Parfumo tells me, it is a floral-fresh, spring-like fragrance, which is produced since 2010 as an offspring of the Chanel Chance EdP from 2002, which already contains similar fragrance notes such as hyacinth, jasmine, citrus and musk.
The fragrance notes listed for Chance Eau Tendre EdT are grapefruit and quince in the top notes, hyacinth and jasmine in the heart notes, and amber, iris, musk and cedar in the base notes.
I'm reading up on the reviews. Since the fragrance is described as fresh, floral, delicate, bright, gentle, light, noble and lovely, but also boring and stale. Supposedly it is a very feminine, unobtrusive "clean scent". Uncomplicated and nice. Hm. These are all not necessarily the criteria that are top of mind for me in a perfume. Secretly, I think: aha, all euphemisms for inconsequential, unobtrusive, sweet, well-behaved and clean. In a word: a fragrance that absolutely does not suit me.
I don't usually keep an eye out for scents of this nature. But since he is now already there ...
Should he not like me so well, I'll wear him just as a summer everyday fragrance, when I go to the post office or shopping, etc., I tell myself. It is after all a not so cheap brand fragrance from a good house.
Quince, after all. That does sound appealing. In the past, women have put ripe quince in the laundry box and everything has then smelled so lovely, sweet and fresh after this wonderful fruit.
The delicate women's fragrance was created by the now 78-year-old Jacques Polge, who was responsible for the Chanel fragrances as Head Perfumer from 1978 to 2015. Since 2015, his son Olivier Polge leads Les Parfums Chanel. Jacques Polge has created many great fragrances for Chanel. Coco for example, as well as Egoiste, Allure and just Chance.
Still I hesitate to tear open the sealed cellophane wrapper. Because then it would be over with a return. Chanel and I have never been compatible. I don't like the much-touted Chanel 5 at all. I've used many fragrances from reputable brands in my life - but never one from Chanel. Chanel - that meant for me always elegant, ladylike, noble, discreet, but not exciting or innovative.
Perhaps for that very reason - or despite it - my curiosity won out.
Of course, I have now torn open the cellophane wrapper, hold the round glass bottle with the pale pink perfume in my hand - and spray on it. Fortunately, I have not applied any other fragrance that day, which could distort the impression of Chance Eau Tendre EdT.
The fragrance initially seems cooling, fresh and green. Surprisingly unsweet and pleasant. Kind of grassy. In the next phase, fruity things make themselves felt: a rather tamed, civilized grapefruit and something that first makes me think of a pear, but then turns out to be - unfortunately for my taste much too little intense - quince. Here would have been Chance's chance to be a bit bolder, trendier and more idiosyncratic than the mainstream. But it is missed. Perhaps senior Jacques Polge no longer mustered the courage for such boldness, or his need for harmony defeated his desire for novelty.
By the time Chance Eau Tendre soon slides more and more into the floral, it has already lost the brief youthful verve of the beginning.
The hyacinth, which I had feared as possibly too beguiling, proves to be quite adapted and demure, without any nocturnal sensual hullabaloo, which I would have disliked anyway.
And the jasmine also has nothing erotic, but is so what of clean, a real fresh laundry scent. Who does not seem groomed with it, which is no longer to help.
Probably this is the fragrance that parents like to perceive on their (of course higher) daughters, I think. Because with Chance Eau Tendre, no one is going to tick anyone off. It's just well-adjusted, friendly, nice, calm, gentle and elegant. But it's an elegance more suited to higher daughters than sophisticated, grown-up women.
The base ebbs away in unspecific perfume - purest harmony.
Towards the end develops Chance Eau Tendre a certain creaminess, which spreads so to speak conciliatory about everything negative in the world. There resonates then also a delicate powderiness. The otherwise distinctive iris with its fascinating dryness appears here like a gentle baby powder.
All in all, the fragrance is round, well balanced and radiates a restrained, almost innocent femininity.
Old-fashioned I feel Chance Eau Tendre not, but conservative. Nothing for rebels or individualists. The fragrance does not provide any excesses or deeper thought or inspiration. It is easy going. Harmless. Not for alpha women, party queens or ladies who want to stand out. A good fragrance for everyday life that is so unobtrusive that even the sweetness of the flowers is not really lived out. Purest restraint and completely unexcessive harmony.
Jaques Polge was about seventy when he created this fragrance. It is possible that you notice that in the perfume - this delicate, conciliatory harmony, the clean, lovely, well-groomed, gentle.
Perhaps one will also appreciate this classically elegant calm only in the serenity of age, when the noisy life withdraws more and more.
In terms of character, however, the fragrance fits - and I stick to it - especially to young girls. From a good house. Understands itself.
The weekend has come. I still have to get one or the other in the supermarket. Cat food and whatever else you need to live. Fortunately, the supermarket is not far away. Another quick re-spray of Chance Eau Tendre EdT. I grab my shopping bag and FFP2 mask. The elevator takes me downstairs.
After the small purchase, it goes back to my apartment. In the elevator, I take off the mask - and suddenly the most lovely, heavenly scent of flowers surrounds me. I recognize it immediately: It's Chance Eau Tendre EdT! It has been waiting for me in the elevator car, to surprise me now with its delicate tenderness, soft and airy. And I'm really surprised at how pleasant it smells here. I enjoy the ride up to the fifth floor. For my sake, it could have lasted longer.
Is Chance Eau Tendre EdT perhaps not quite as banal, sweet, and well-behaved as it seems? Not that I plan a repurchase, but I'll stay tuned.
That childlike joy when you open the package ... And then? An unordered, unfamiliar box stares back at me from the packaging:
Chance Eau Tendre, an EdT by Chanel.
A misdelivery. I have no idea what this fragrance is. Of course, I am disappointed. The package has come a long way, and I waited a long time for it.
And now I'm supposed to send the whole thing back - possibly at my expense - to Spain or somewhere?
Chanel is, after all, a big brand. And I got a bottle with a whole 100 ml, which normally costs between € 100, - and € 190, - in the trade.
Uncertain I look at the emphatically simple, pale purple box.
Parfumo tells me, it is a floral-fresh, spring-like fragrance, which is produced since 2010 as an offspring of the Chanel Chance EdP from 2002, which already contains similar fragrance notes such as hyacinth, jasmine, citrus and musk.
The fragrance notes listed for Chance Eau Tendre EdT are grapefruit and quince in the top notes, hyacinth and jasmine in the heart notes, and amber, iris, musk and cedar in the base notes.
I'm reading up on the reviews. Since the fragrance is described as fresh, floral, delicate, bright, gentle, light, noble and lovely, but also boring and stale. Supposedly it is a very feminine, unobtrusive "clean scent". Uncomplicated and nice. Hm. These are all not necessarily the criteria that are top of mind for me in a perfume. Secretly, I think: aha, all euphemisms for inconsequential, unobtrusive, sweet, well-behaved and clean. In a word: a fragrance that absolutely does not suit me.
I don't usually keep an eye out for scents of this nature. But since he is now already there ...
Should he not like me so well, I'll wear him just as a summer everyday fragrance, when I go to the post office or shopping, etc., I tell myself. It is after all a not so cheap brand fragrance from a good house.
Quince, after all. That does sound appealing. In the past, women have put ripe quince in the laundry box and everything has then smelled so lovely, sweet and fresh after this wonderful fruit.
The delicate women's fragrance was created by the now 78-year-old Jacques Polge, who was responsible for the Chanel fragrances as Head Perfumer from 1978 to 2015. Since 2015, his son Olivier Polge leads Les Parfums Chanel. Jacques Polge has created many great fragrances for Chanel. Coco for example, as well as Egoiste, Allure and just Chance.
Still I hesitate to tear open the sealed cellophane wrapper. Because then it would be over with a return. Chanel and I have never been compatible. I don't like the much-touted Chanel 5 at all. I've used many fragrances from reputable brands in my life - but never one from Chanel. Chanel - that meant for me always elegant, ladylike, noble, discreet, but not exciting or innovative.
Perhaps for that very reason - or despite it - my curiosity won out.
Of course, I have now torn open the cellophane wrapper, hold the round glass bottle with the pale pink perfume in my hand - and spray on it. Fortunately, I have not applied any other fragrance that day, which could distort the impression of Chance Eau Tendre EdT.
The fragrance initially seems cooling, fresh and green. Surprisingly unsweet and pleasant. Kind of grassy. In the next phase, fruity things make themselves felt: a rather tamed, civilized grapefruit and something that first makes me think of a pear, but then turns out to be - unfortunately for my taste much too little intense - quince. Here would have been Chance's chance to be a bit bolder, trendier and more idiosyncratic than the mainstream. But it is missed. Perhaps senior Jacques Polge no longer mustered the courage for such boldness, or his need for harmony defeated his desire for novelty.
By the time Chance Eau Tendre soon slides more and more into the floral, it has already lost the brief youthful verve of the beginning.
The hyacinth, which I had feared as possibly too beguiling, proves to be quite adapted and demure, without any nocturnal sensual hullabaloo, which I would have disliked anyway.
And the jasmine also has nothing erotic, but is so what of clean, a real fresh laundry scent. Who does not seem groomed with it, which is no longer to help.
Probably this is the fragrance that parents like to perceive on their (of course higher) daughters, I think. Because with Chance Eau Tendre, no one is going to tick anyone off. It's just well-adjusted, friendly, nice, calm, gentle and elegant. But it's an elegance more suited to higher daughters than sophisticated, grown-up women.
The base ebbs away in unspecific perfume - purest harmony.
Towards the end develops Chance Eau Tendre a certain creaminess, which spreads so to speak conciliatory about everything negative in the world. There resonates then also a delicate powderiness. The otherwise distinctive iris with its fascinating dryness appears here like a gentle baby powder.
All in all, the fragrance is round, well balanced and radiates a restrained, almost innocent femininity.
Old-fashioned I feel Chance Eau Tendre not, but conservative. Nothing for rebels or individualists. The fragrance does not provide any excesses or deeper thought or inspiration. It is easy going. Harmless. Not for alpha women, party queens or ladies who want to stand out. A good fragrance for everyday life that is so unobtrusive that even the sweetness of the flowers is not really lived out. Purest restraint and completely unexcessive harmony.
Jaques Polge was about seventy when he created this fragrance. It is possible that you notice that in the perfume - this delicate, conciliatory harmony, the clean, lovely, well-groomed, gentle.
Perhaps one will also appreciate this classically elegant calm only in the serenity of age, when the noisy life withdraws more and more.
In terms of character, however, the fragrance fits - and I stick to it - especially to young girls. From a good house. Understands itself.
The weekend has come. I still have to get one or the other in the supermarket. Cat food and whatever else you need to live. Fortunately, the supermarket is not far away. Another quick re-spray of Chance Eau Tendre EdT. I grab my shopping bag and FFP2 mask. The elevator takes me downstairs.
After the small purchase, it goes back to my apartment. In the elevator, I take off the mask - and suddenly the most lovely, heavenly scent of flowers surrounds me. I recognize it immediately: It's Chance Eau Tendre EdT! It has been waiting for me in the elevator car, to surprise me now with its delicate tenderness, soft and airy. And I'm really surprised at how pleasant it smells here. I enjoy the ride up to the fifth floor. For my sake, it could have lasted longer.
Is Chance Eau Tendre EdT perhaps not quite as banal, sweet, and well-behaved as it seems? Not that I plan a repurchase, but I'll stay tuned.
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