About R Parfums
Time leaves a fingerprint.
On skin, the scent opens layer by layer. On the bottle, the brass plate changes far more slowly, with the light and humidity of the room you live in. Two clocks, both keeping your time.
Two clocks · choose a moment
The first clock · on skin · Pluviophile
Green Leaves · Rain · Rhubarb
Rain just fallen on skin.
Heavy rain
The second clock · on brass · the Patina bottle
Fresh from the maker’s hands
Piece II has only just begun to change. Your plate is like no other, including the one pictured here.
Piece I keeps the colour of brass. Piece III is wholly covered in patina. Piece II is the one still changing.
Contents · six chapters, and a seventh
Each scent, a chapter.
Each chapter begins in a particular place, at a particular hour: sometimes in a memory, sometimes on the page of a book. The wearer writes the rest.
- IEau de HajimeLike a first affection. Narcissus and oakmoss; pear makes up only about 0.1% of the formula.BeginsAn early morning, slanting light
- IIPluviophileA Rain Reverie. Geosmin, the scent of petrichor, at under 0.01% of the formula.BeginsA Friday afternoon, Shinjuku
- IIINostalgic MarchA Memory in Bloom. Sugarcane scented with pomelo blossom, afternoon tea in Tràng An.BeginsMarch, Hanoi
- IV221BThe Reckless Dreamer. Clean leather, rose, tobacco, a haze of birch tar.BeginsA misty night, Baker Street
- VShadow ÉclatRadiant Darkness. Suede, immortelle, black pepper.BeginsThe night of a supermoon
- VIBéton ChaudWhere Summer Felt Like Freedom. A concrete pipe, a kite, cumin seed and cinnamon.BeginsA red-hot summer, an empty lot
- VIILotus NocturneThe seventh chapter, a scent still in development.StatusIn development
About R Parfums
An invisible signature, yours alone
R Parfums tells its scents from a Vietnamese point of view, through scenes that really happened: a red-hot summer day inside a concrete pipe, a cup of tea in Hanoi in March, a rainy afternoon in Tokyo. Those fragments become scent, then become yours.
Perfumer Rei Nguyen studied perfume design in Tokyo and composes in Saigon. The first house opened at 34 Nguyễn Duy Hiệu in July 2022. Today each house has all six scents to try on skin, and all are open daily.
Nguyễn Duy Hiệu
Thảo Điền — An Khánh Ward
The R Space building
Open daily · 8:00–18:00
Nguyễn Huệ
The Café Apartment building, inside NOTE – The Scent Lab
Open daily · 9:00–22:00
Lý Tự Trọng
Inside Saigon Scent Lab
Open daily · 9:00–22:00
We currently deliver within Vietnam only. Visiting from abroad? Collect your order at any of our three houses. Hotline +84 89 649 0038 · info@r-parfums.com
Directions to our three housesArchive · 2022 → 2026
What has taken place, kept here
Four years, four scent exhibitions in Saigon and Hanoi. Then Phú Quốc, then Shanghai.
- 19 – 31/7/2024PluviophileThe first scent exhibition: seven stories about rain, told in Vietnamese and English, at 34 Nguyễn Duy Hiệu.
- 9 – 10/8/2024Olfactory OmakaseScents paired course by course, with Oku restaurant at Regent Phú Quốc.
- 12/2024Letters from 221B Baker Street: Scents of ShadowThe light is 221B. The darkness is Shadow Éclat, the scent born at this exhibition.
- 14 – 20/2/2025Light and ShadowThe first exhibition in Hanoi: 221B and Shadow Éclat side by side.
- 4/2026Notes ShanghaiAn international fair in Shanghai.
- 16/7 – 9/8/2026Pluviophile – Chapter 2The rain returns to 34 Nguyễn Duy Hiệu. The exhibition’s soundtrack became Pluviophile Suite.
Press
L'Officiel Vietnam, 2022
ELLE Việt Nam, 2022
— Best Local, in ELLE readers’ Top 10 favourite scents
Tatler Asia, 2024 / 2025
Robb Report Vietnam, 2025
On skin, on brass, in the colour of kiln-fired glaze: time leaves a fingerprint.