"Joy is very powerful. It’s a real mantra for me."
t just 29, Angèle is a bona fide superstar: a platinum-selling french-language pop luminary, fashion darling, and a feminist figurehead. In Belgium and France, she performs to packed arenas, commanding legions of fans who hang on her every syllable, lyric and look. In Britain, you might not yet spot her in the Pret queue - but give it time. International stardom is circling. She’s already featured in Dua Lipa’s sultry Fever track, lit up the Coachella stage in 2023, and fronted a Netflix documentary. And now? She’s been tapped as the face of Chance Eau Splendide, Chanel’s latest olfactory jewel.
hen her debut album Brol landed in 2018, it was instantly chart-topping, million-selling,
"The joy and hope that emanate from this fragrance resonated with me immediately."
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singer-songwriter with a flair for the subversive, Angèle has always moved a little differently. It was around 2016, on Instagram, where she first began gathering attention - posting homespun clips of her playing the piano, crooning irreverent covers. It wasn’t just the voice. It was the unstudied charm, the sense that here was a person wholly herself.
“At 20, I took my two managers by the hand, and we went to Paris to play our demos” she explains. “It was a real gamble!” but one that paid off. “ I suddenly found myself face to face with people from the music industry.” This was a turning point - one that led her not just to singing, but to producing her own work, building a musical universe that is unmistakably her own.
and stitched together with a feminist thread that made it not just successful but significant. By 2020, she had been welcomed into Chanel’s inner sanctum appearing in a series of dreamy campaigns and later attending the Met Gala swathed in a custom creation from the brand. But facing a fragrance campaign is different. It is more substantial, more enduring.
And in Chance Eau Splendide - the signature florals of the Chance collection has been paired with a raspberry accord which adds a fruitiness without being too sweet. The result is abundantly fresh and youthful, and feels unmistakably Angèle. It’s “sparkling and joyful” explains Olivier Polge, the eminent perfumer and nose behind the scent, and yet there is an “element of mystery that is full of contrast.” It’s a scent that radiates the kind of carefree frivolity one might expect from a modern-day French pop heroine. “The joy and hope that emanate from this fragrance resonated with me immediately,” explains Angèle.
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t’s therefore no surprise that the singer resonates
with this scent - after all, joy is the through-line of her life. “Joy is very powerful,” she says. “It’s a real mantra for me.” The secret, she believes, is holding on to it - fiercely, deliberately. “As long as we can, we must cherish and maintain our joy, which opens the door to even more luck and optimism.” And then, ever the optimist herself, she adds “If it doesn’t work this time - it will tomorrow.”
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t just 29, Angèle is a bona fide superstar: a platinum-selling french-language pop luminary, fashion darling, and a feminist figurehead. In Belgium and France, she performs to packed arenas, commanding legions of fans who hang on her every syllable, lyric and look. In Britain, you might not yet spot her in the Pret queue - but give it time. International stardom is circling. She’s already featured in Dua Lipa’s sultry Fever track, lit up the Coachella stage in 2023, and fronted a Netflix documentary. And now? She’s been tapped as the face of Chance Eau Splendide, Chanel’s latest olfactory jewel.
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"Joy is very powerful. It’s a real mantra
for me."
singer-songwriter with a flair for the subversive, Angèle has always moved a little differently. It was around 2016, on Instagram, where she first began gathering attention - posting homespun clips of her playing the piano, crooning irreverent covers. It wasn’t just the voice. It was the unstudied charm, the sense that here was a person wholly herself.
“At 20, I took my two managers by the hand, and we went to Paris to play our demos” she explains. “It was a real gamble!” but one that paid off. “ I suddenly found myself face to face with people from the music industry.” This was a turning point - one that led her not just to singing, but to producing her own work, building a musical universe that is unmistakably her own.
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hen her debut album Brol landed in 2018, it was instantly chart-topping, million-selling, and stitched together with a feminist thread that made it not just successful but significant. By 2020, she had been welcomed into Chanel’s inner sanctum appearing in a series of dreamy campaigns and later attending the Met Gala swathed in a custom creation from the brand. But facing a fragrance campaign is different. It is more substantial, more enduring.
And in Chance Eau Splendide - the signature florals of the Chance collection has been paired with a raspberry accord which adds a fruitiness without being too sweet. The result is abundantly fresh and youthful, and feels unmistakably Angèle. It’s “sparkling and joyful” explains Olivier Polge, the eminent perfumer and nose behind the scent, and yet there is an “element of mystery that is full of contrast.” It’s a scent that radiates the kind of carefree frivolity one might expect from a modern-day French pop heroine. “The joy and hope that emanate from this fragrance resonated with me immediately,” explains Angèle.
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t’s therefore no surprise that the singer resonates with this scent - after all, joy is the through-line of her life. “Joy is very powerful,” she says. “It’s a real mantra for me.” The secret, she believes, is holding on to it - fiercely, deliberately. “As long as we can, we must cherish and maintain our joy, which opens the door to even more luck and optimism.” And then, ever the optimist herself, she adds “If it doesn’t work this time - it will tomorrow.”
Angèle is the muse of the new Chance Eau Splendide fragrance, available to purchase now from £109.00.