The Omniscient Mister Thompson
The Omniscient Mr Thompson plays the part of a butler who knows where every body is buried.
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.
- Lavender70
- Iris60
- Vanilla55
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Elemi
- Pink Pepper
- Orris
- Black Pepper
- Iris
- Geranium
By the editors · 2 min readThe Omniscient Mr Thompson plays the part of a butler who knows where every body is buried. Lavender opens with elemi resin and pink pepper — a polished, almost lacquered fougère gesture — that sits very upright before the room shifts.
Orris brings a powdered, slightly cool middle, and the peppers (black, then geranium's metallic edge) keep the formality from turning sweet. There is a quietness in the heart that reads watchful, not friendly.
The base is the trick of the composition: vanilla, sesame, and oak. Sesame gives a savory, faintly toasted seed-skin warmth that pulls the vanilla away from dessert and toward something almost umami. Oak holds the structure dry. Six to eight hours, intimate to moderate sillage. Less Edwardian costume than the rest of the Portraits line — a Portraits character built on tension rather than charm.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
