Does Pluviophile smell of rain?

Rain is one of its top notes, with green leaves and rhubarb. The formula also holds geosmin, the compound behind the smell of soil after rain, at less than 0.01%. Violet, ylang-ylang and bluebell form the middle; musk, anise and clove, the base.

Will my Ceramic cap look like the photograph?

Close to it, not identical. Each cap takes its glaze from the kiln and its tassel from the maker’s hand; neither colour can be requested. The colour of a glaze also shifts with the light and with each firing, and every bottle carries a ceramic charm engraved with R.

Is there a smaller size?

Yes: Pluviophile 12 ml, US$45; a 2 ml sample, US$8; or the Discovery Set of five 2 ml vials, Pluviophile among them, US$35. All incl. 8% VAT.

Pluviophile collage: the Ceramic bottle with a speckled glaze cap, white tassel and ceramic R charm, among rain rings on water, white flowers, a green leaf and a dragonfly wing — Pluviophile, Ceramic 50 ml, among rain rings, white flowers and a green leaf.

Chapter II · Green · Eau de Parfum

Pluviophile Ceramic, 50 ml

A Rain Reverie

Đoản khúc cho kẻ yêu mưa

Pluviophile in Ceramic is a 50 ml Eau de Parfum of rain by Rei Nguyen of R Parfums, an independent fragrance house from Saigon, Vietnam. The clay cap is cast in a mould, cut at the mouth and sponged smooth, then glazed and kiln-fired, with a ceramic charm engraved with R. 3.580.200 ₫US$145Currently unavailable · expected back late November incl. 8% VAT; smell it first at our three houses.

Read Chapter II Pluviophile, both bottles

Bottle

Patina Three brass pieces 50 ml · 4.212.000 ₫US$170

Ceramic · selected A cap of fired clay 50 ml · 3.580.200 ₫US$145Currently unavailable · expected back late November

Also in 12 ml, 1.069.200 ₫US$45 · Smaller sizes

The kiln decides the glaze and the maker’s hand the tassel, so each Ceramic bottle comes to you as it was finished. Every Ceramic bottle carries a ceramic charm engraved with R. The colour of a glaze shifts with the light and from one firing to the next, so your cap will be close to the photographs, not identical to them.

3.580.200 ₫US$145Currently unavailable · expected back late November

Incl. 8% VAT

Currently unavailable · expected back late November

Payment Bank Transfer by VietQR (VND) or Credit Card (USD). With VietQR we hold the bottle for 60 minutes while your transfer arrives. With a card, the amount in USD is shown before you pay.
Delivery We currently deliver within Vietnam only. Visiting from abroad? Collect your order at any of our three houses.
Returns Terms
Smell first On paper and on skin at our three houses in Ho Chi Minh City, open every day. Or begin with a 2 ml sample, 194.400 ₫US$8. Addresses and hours

For the record

At a glance

This bottle, line by line. Ingredients, use and care are as printed on the label.

Scent: Pluviophile, Chapter II of six
Bottle line: Ceramic. The same scent also comes in Patina.
Volume: 50 ml / 1.7 fl. oz.
Concentration: Eau de Parfum
Family: Green
Top: Green Leaves, Rain, Rhubarb
Middle: Violet, Ylang-Ylang, Bluebell
Base: Musk, Anise, Clove
Geosmin: Less than 0.01% of the formula
Cap: Ceramic: clay cast in a mould, cut at the mouth and sponged smooth, then glazed. How the cap is made
Firing: 1000°C, in the kiln
Glaze and tassel: As the kiln and the maker’s hand left them; each cap its own shade.
Charm: Ceramic, engraved with R
Price: 3.580.200 ₫US$145Currently unavailable · expected back late November, incl. 8% VAT
Smell it: At our three houses in Ho Chi Minh City, open every day: 34 Nguyễn Duy Hiệu, 42 Nguyễn Huệ and 26 Lý Tự Trọng
Delivery: Within Vietnam only, or collect your order at any of the three houses
Perfumer: Rei Nguyen
Made in: Vietnam
House: R Parfums, an independent fragrance house from Saigon, Vietnam. Sold by NOTE CO., LTD.

Ingredients (INCI)

Alcohol, Aqua (Water), Parfum (Fragrance), Linalool, Hexyl Cinnamal, Limonene, Benzyl Benzoate, Benzyl Salicylate, Geraniol, Farnesol, Coumarin, Isoeugenol, Eugenol.

As printed on the Pluviophile label. Batch number: see the packaging.

Wear and keep

Spray onto wrists, behind ears or on the neck, 15–20 cm from the body, on clean, dry skin. Store in a cool, dry place away from direct sunlight, with the cap closed. Shelf life: 29 months from the manufacturing date. Flammable: keep away from heat and sparks.

Why this cap

Clay, fire, glaze

The same rain, kept a second way. Patina carries its change in three brass pieces. Ceramic was changed once, in the kiln, and keeps what the fire left.

The mould Liquid clay is poured into rows of white moulds, and the excess is tipped back out. Each cap begins here, as a small hollow sphere.

The opening Out of the mould, the mouth of each sphere is cut by hand and the surface wiped smooth with a sponge. Then the rows are left to dry.
The glaze The raw glaze goes on pink, brushed over each dry sphere. Its colour appears only after the firing.

The kiln On the kiln shelves the clay becomes ceramic and the glaze fuses to it. After this, the cap does not change.

Two hands hold the Ceramic bottle against linen: black glaze cap, black tassel, ceramic charm with R — One finished cap, its glaze set by the firing, with its tassel and the charm engraved with R.

A glaze that recalls Chu Đậu

The glazes look back to Chu Đậu, the old ceramics of northern Vietnam. Each cap comes out of the kiln in its own shade.

Light and firing

A glaze reads one way by a window and another under a lamp, and its colour shifts a little from one firing to the next. That is why every image on this page is a photograph of a real cap, not a colour painted flat.

Tassel and charm

The tassel is finished by hand, with a small ceramic charm engraved with R.

How a Ceramic cap is made

Series #3 · Film

Ceramic and fire

At the studio where our caps are made, from a slab of clay to a cap set beside its bottle.

Ceramic and fire · 1:29 · silent

What the film shows: the studio’s long worktable, then a slab of fine clay. Liquid clay is poured into white moulds and the excess tipped back out. Each small sphere is cut at the mouth and wiped with a sponge, then left in rows to dry. The raw glaze goes on pink. The spheres are set on the kiln shelves and fired, and come out in their fired colours. Last, a tassel and a ceramic charm engraved with R are set into the box beside the bottle.

How a Ceramic cap is made The Pluviophile film, 2022 The brass and the clay

The scent inside

A Rain Reverie

Pluviophile: one who loves the rain. It opens on green leaves, rain and rhubarb, the moment the first drops land. Then violet, ylang-ylang and bluebell, wild flowers caught in the shower. Slowly it settles into musk, anise and clove.

The bottle changes nothing inside it. Patina and Ceramic hold the same Pluviophile.

Read Chapter II Pluviophile, both bottles

From the perfumer

“Sometimes I still can imagine myself sitting on that wooden bench in Shinjuku Park, watching the falling rain. My heart was light and my mind flowed with the water. It was strange that I never felt lonely in the rain.”

Rei Nguyen, perfumer, on the rain behind Pluviophile, writing in the Journal in 2023

Chapter II · What the eye does not see

< 0.01%

Geosmin

The compound behind the smell of soil when rain first falls. In the Pluviophile formula it is less than 0.01%, not even one part in ten thousand: a light trace of the earth in the rain.

Pluviophile in the Patina bottle, the brass pieces on the glass

The same scent, in Patina

Pluviophile, Patina 50 ml

The other way to keep the rain: three brass pieces, corroded, filed and polished, then set on the glass. On Pluviophile, the green-blue of the patina meets the pale blue of the scent. The idea came from relics in Huế; twelve months of research and development went into the Patina line. Each bottle is one of a kind.

I Brass

II Turning

III Patina

4.212.000 ₫US$170 Incl. 8% VAT

See the Patina bottle

Smaller sizes12 ml 1.069.200 ₫US$452 ml 194.400 ₫US$8Discovery Set, five 2 ml vials, 918.000 ₫US$35 · all incl. 8% VAT

Smaller sizes

The Ceramic line

The other five

All six in Ceramic

All prices incl. 8% VAT. Every scent comes in both lines, Ceramic and Patina.

Questions

Asked often

Something we have not answered? Call +84 89 649 0038 or write to info@r-parfums.com.

Does Pluviophile smell of rain?: Rain is one of its top notes, with green leaves and rhubarb. The formula also holds geosmin, the compound behind the smell of soil after rain, at less than 0.01%. Violet, ylang-ylang and bluebell form the middle; musk, anise and clove, the base.
Will my Ceramic cap look like the photograph?: Close to it, not identical. Each cap takes its glaze from the kiln and its tassel from the maker’s hand; neither colour can be requested. The colour of a glaze also shifts with the light and with each firing, and every bottle carries a ceramic charm engraved with R.
Is there a smaller size?: Yes: Pluviophile 12 ml, 1.069.200 ₫US$45; a 2 ml sample, 194.400 ₫US$8; or the Discovery Set of five 2 ml vials, Pluviophile among them, 918.000 ₫US$35. All incl. 8% VAT. Smaller sizes

Smell it first

Three houses, one city

Pluviophile on paper and on skin, before you choose a bottle. Each house has all six scents to try on skin. Ceramic arrives at the houses in late November.

I · Nguyễn Duy Hiệu R Space, 34 Nguyễn Duy Hiệu, Thảo Điền — An Khánh Ward Ho Chi Minh City Open daily · 8:00–18:00

II · Nguyễn Huệ 42 Nguyễn Huệ, The Café Apartment building — Level 2, Sài Gòn Ward Ho Chi Minh City · inside NOTE – The Scent Lab Open daily · 9:00–22:00

III · Lý Tự Trọng 26 Lý Tự Trọng, Level 3, Sài Gòn Ward Ho Chi Minh City · inside Saigon Scent Lab Open daily · 9:00–22:00

+84 89 649 0038 · info@r-parfums.com

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