Record · 2026
Pluviophile – Chapter 2
Pluviophile – Chapter 2 was a minixhibition, a small exhibition by R Parfums, open from 16 July to 9 August 2026 at 34 Nguyễn Duy Hiệu, Ho Chi Minh City. Two years after Pluviophile – The Rain Lover (2024), the rain came back with five new creations, telling the adventure of a raindrop with a dragonfly and a lotus.
At a glance
- Dates
- 16 July – 9 August 2026
- Place
- 34 Nguyễn Duy Hiệu, An Khánh Ward
- Type
- Small exhibition (minixhibition)
- Perfumer
- Rei Nguyen
- Admission
- Complimentary, by registration for a one-hour time slot
Opening words
Pluviophile – Chapter 2 – 2026
As a child, I often wondered, “Where does the rain come from? And where does it go?”
Countless times, I imagined the adventures a single raindrop went through just to reach the earth from the sky.
I still believe each raindrop has its own lifetime. This life, and countless more to come.
For this second chapter of “Pluviophile”, I let dragonfly wings carry me to wander here and there with the rain. I don’t expect it to be a happy raindrop, but rather, one that lives its life to the fullest.
Through these five scents, I wish to share those feelings with you.
With love and rain.
Rei Nguyen & R Parfums
The exhibition, sense by sense
- Sight
Tracing the wingbeats, another silhouette of the rain.
- Scent
Five rain creations, five distinct inspirations.
The exhibition
Five scents, five stories
The five scents were smelled in order, from 1 to 5. Three characters travel together: Rain, Dragonfly and Lotus. These five scents lived only in the exhibition room; they were never made to be sold.
Scent #2Longing in the rainA restless breeze blew past; the dragonfly wing, dotted with the silvery raindrop, quivered gently.
Read the full story →
Scent #3A DateThrough the silver wing, Rain watched a soft pink hue emerge. Gentle and breathtakingly beautiful.
Read the full story →
Photographs
Inside the exhibition
Listen
Smelling
Writing
Documents
In writing
In the Journal
- 18 June 2026Looking Back at Scent Exhibition “Pluviophile” (2024): The Rain of Memories
- 24 October 2026The five stories of Pluviophile – Chapter 2
- 24 October 2026Where does the rain go
From readers
Between 16 July and 9 August 2026, visitors filled the book by hand in Vietnamese, English and Japanese: some walked back through each scent, one wrote verse, others drew.
Thái Lê read Chapter 2 as a trip, from scent #2 to scent #5.
Read one page: “Where does the rain go” →
One page, two languages
Bảo Ngọc & Jimmy Phan
Huỳnh Trần Huy (Du Nhân)
9.8.2026
Thái Lê
On the wingbeat · A Date
Mil
Ted
Dr. Thùy Vy
Questions about the rain
Trần Ngọc Anh
Visitors said
“…through the audio story and then the scent, I felt a kind of connection.”
— a visitor“…imagining a dragonfly’s wing holding up a raindrop, and I really liked that scent too.”
— a visitor, on scent #1“…one breath and you know it’s about a flower, a little sweet, and never too heavy or too sharp.”
— a visitor, on scent #4
Spoken words from interviews at the exhibition, filler words removed.
Objects
Cards, cloth pouches and the poster
A hand holding a brass dragonfly above an ink dragonfly card and an embroidered R PARFUMS cloth pouch, 2026. 
Four ink dragonfly cards, each with an embroidered R PARFUMS cloth pouch, seen from above, 2026. 
A cloth pouch embroidered R PARFUMS, tied with cord, on a card with an ink dragonfly, 2026. 
The Pluviophile – Chapter 2 poster.
“I don’t know, but the next rain will surely carry my memories with it.”
What came next
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