Chapter IV · Woody Leather
The Reckless Dreamer
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221B in Patina on Brass is a 50 ml woody leather perfume by Rei Nguyen, named after Sherlock Holmes’s address on Baker Street. Its three hand-finished brass pieces, in the house’s Brown Blue Patina, are corroded, filed and set on the glass. 4.860.000 ₫US$195 incl. 8% VAT; smell it first at our three houses in Ho Chi Minh City.
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Why this bottle
Patina is the thin film that forms on brass in air and moisture. It looks like corrosion; in fact it shields the metal beneath.
Watch the film
Series #1 · Film
Our first film: the Patina bottle, and the material R Parfums has worn since its first day.
All films
How a plate is made
The idea came from relics in Huế; twelve months of research and development went into the Patina line.
Between the plates, the perfume glows gold through the glass and holds the three together.
221B · Patina 50 ml 4.860.000 ₫US$195 Incl. 8% VAT
The scent · Chapter IV
221B is Sherlock Holmes’s address on Baker Street. The scent sets aside his pipe and leather gloves and follows the passion beneath his reserve. Leather is drawn in clean, polished lines and softened by the honeyed sweetness of rose; tobacco folds into osmanthus.
Fervent yet distant, reckless yet dreaming.
Key note · Damascenone
A key component of the scent of rose, present all through 221B. It carries rose with a lingering trace of tobacco; set against the leather, it holds the balance and makes the blend rounder and mellower.
Birch tar, without the smoke
The birch tar in 221B is neither smoky nor dark. On your skin it leaves a faint haze over the leather and balsam.
“Sherlock stands in the light, but what fascinates me is the shadow he carries. Perceptive. Reserved. Passionate. Relentless in his pursuit of truth.”
Film · 2022
In 2022 R Parfums made a short film for each of its five scents. This one is lit very low: rose petals in shadow, a drift of smoke, then the bottle lying among the petals and, at the end, standing beside a rose.
All five films, 2022
Same scent in Ceramic · 50 ml
A round cap fired at 1000°C, in a glaze that recalls Chu Đậu ware and shifts with the light. The kiln decides the glaze and the maker’s hand the tassel, so each Ceramic bottle comes to you as it was finished. Every bottle carries a ceramic charm engraved with R.
Smaller sizes12 ml 1.285.200 ₫US$502 ml 224.640 ₫US$9 · Discovery Set of five vials, 918.000 ₫US$35
Chapters IV and V
If 221B is the light, drawn from Sherlock Holmes, Shadow Éclat is the darkness, drawn from James Moriarty. Both are built from a shared palette of raw materials, set in a different balance, and each completes the other.
Chapter IV · Light · this bottle
Crisp leather and rose, tobacco and osmanthus. Sherlock Holmes.
Patina 50 ml · 4.860.000 ₫US$195
Chapter V · Darkness · Modern Leather
Suede leather on the soft herbal calm of geranium, with the smoky honey of osmanthus and immortelle. James Moriarty.
Exhibition · 6–15 December 2024
At 34 Nguyễn Duy Hiệu, An Khánh Ward, the two characters were given a room each. Shadow Éclat was first shown there. The pair met again at Light and Shadow, in Hanoi, in February 2025.
Sherlock Holmes’s room
Moriarty’s room
The Patina line
All six scents come in the Patina bottle, 50 ml. Verde Patina for Eau de Hajime, Pluviophile and Nostalgic March; Brown Blue Patina for 221B, Shadow Éclat and Béton Chaud.
See the Patina collection
Chapter I · Chypre Floral
Chapter II · Green
Chapter III · Floral Fruity
Chapter V · Modern Leather
Chapter VI · Spicy Amber
They are a pair from Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories: 221B is the light, drawn from Sherlock; Shadow Éclat is the darkness, drawn from Moriarty. Both are built from a shared palette of raw materials, set in a different balance. 221B leans on crisp leather, rose and tobacco; Shadow Éclat on suede, geranium and immortelle. About Shadow Éclat
Hardly. The birch tar in 221B is neither smoky nor dark; on skin it leaves a faint haze over the leather and balsam. Rose and leather lead, and the tobacco folds into osmanthus.
Yes. 221B comes in 12 ml at 1.285.200 ₫US$50 and as a 2 ml sample at 224.640 ₫US$9. It is also one of the five vials in the Discovery Set, at 918.000 ₫US$35. Smaller sizes
Before you choose
Each of our three houses in Ho Chi Minh City has all six scents to try on skin. Smell 221B beside Shadow Éclat, on paper and on skin, and look at the plates up close.
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