Rain, pomelo blossom and Holmes

Between July and September 2026, a number of people on RedNote (小红书, a Chinese platform for photos and writing) wrote about the R Parfums bottles they had tried. Below are a few of their lines, translated closely from Chinese. Each carries the account name, the month it was posted and a link to the original post.

Pluviophile

But there is another group of people, too, for whom dragonflies flying low are a reason to rejoice.

A little on a rainy day, under an umbrella… and there is a sense of safety, of being sheltered by the rain.

Eau de Hajime

The cool seeps up from between the paving stones, a clear sweetness spreads from the wrist, one cold, one warm…

Nostalgic March

nostalgic is a longing for the past, and a homesickness too

221B

…more like a composed English gentleman standing in the misty rain.

The Patina bottle

The golden liquid is like gold lacquer, borrowing kintsugi to join flawed beauty back together.

On R Parfums

Rather than simply borrowing Vietnam’s food, place names and tropical impressions, it seems to be searching for a contemporary scent language belonging to Asian people.

More on each scent: Pluviophile, Eau de Hajime, Nostalgic March, 221B.