Chaos 1996
Chaos 1996 sits apart from the DKNY apple-and-florals trajectory that would come to define the house.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Herbal100
- Balsamic100
- Vanilla100
- Mossy
The note pyramid
- Sage
- Chamomile
- Lavender
- Coriander
- Cinnamon
- Saffron
- Carnation
By the editors · 2 min readChaos 1996 sits apart from the DKNY apple-and-florals trajectory that would come to define the house. This is a 1990s herbal-oriental, opening with a quartet of coriander, chamomile, sage, and lavender — aromatic and vaguely medicinal, with a green-herbal coolness that surprises. The heart shifts dramatically: saffron, cinnamon, and carnation introduce warmth and a distinctly spiced femininity that pushes the composition closer to Poison territory than anything in the Be Delicious range.
Sandalwood, amber, and musk close it with the textbook 90s oriental base. Chaos is an honest name — the pivot from cool herbal to hot spice is abrupt. It's moody enough for fall and winter evenings when the restrained approach of later DKNY offerings would fall flat.
Scent twins
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