Chapter V · Modern Leather · Eau de Parfum
Radiant Darkness
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Shadow Éclat Ceramic is a 50 ml Eau de Parfum by Rei Nguyen of R Parfums, the Moriarty to 221B’s Sherlock: suede leather over geranium, osmanthus and immortelle. Its clay cap is cast in a mould, cut at the mouth and sponged smooth, then glazed and fired. 4.131.000 ₫US$165Currently unavailable · expected back late November, incl. 8% VAT; smell it first at our three houses in Ho Chi Minh City.
Bottle
Also in 12 ml, 1.285.200 ₫US$50. 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 small ceramic charm engraved with R. A glaze shifts with the light and from one firing to the next, so each cap has a look of its own.
4.131.000 ₫US$165Currently unavailable · expected back late November
Incl. 8% VAT
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“Where the moon meets the sun. Where yin and yang look into each other.
Pure as day is night. A place where every element is allowed to take its true role, and to be set exactly where it belongs — just as Moriarty chooses to stand in the dusty night mist of London.
I call this the radiance of darkness.”
Rei Nguyen, perfumer · memo for Shadow Éclat
The scent inside
Shadow Éclat explores suede leather against the soft herbal calm of geranium, with the smoky honeyed facets of osmanthus and immortelle. The suede is rendered with restraint, like an elegant dark tone moving through shadow.
Patina or Ceramic, the scent inside is the same.
Chapter IV · Chapter V
If 221B is the light, drawn from Sherlock Holmes, Shadow Éclat is the darkness, drawn from James Moriarty. Rei built both from a shared palette of raw materials, set in a different balance, so that each is completed by the other.
Chapter IV · Light · Woody Leather
Leather in clean, polished lines, softened by the honeyed sweetness of rose; tobacco folded into osmanthus. Sherlock Holmes.
Chapter V · Darkness · this bottle
Suede leather, geranium, the smoky honey of osmanthus and immortelle. James Moriarty.
Ceramic 50 ml · 4.131.000 ₫US$165Currently unavailable · expected back late November
Each scent is sold on its own, in either bottle.
Exhibition · 6–15 December 2024 · 34 Nguyễn Duy Hiệu
Letters from 221B Baker Street: Scents of Shadow
Shadow Éclat first appeared here, in Moriarty’s room, with 221B in Sherlock Holmes’s. The pair was shown together again at Light and Shadow, in Hanoi, in February 2025. Rei’s greeting and eight stories from the exhibition can be heard in Vietnamese and in English.
The exhibition in the Journal, 2024The Ceramic bottle
The brass on the Patina bottle was corroded, filed and polished. The Ceramic cap changed once, in the kiln, and stays as the fire left it.
I · Clay and mould
Liquid clay is poured into white moulds, which give every cap the same round form.
II · The opening
Once out of the mould, each sphere has its opening cut with a fine tool and wiped smooth with a sponge. Then the spheres dry in rows on trays.
III · A glaze after Chu Đậu
The glazes look back to Chu Đậu, the old ceramics of northern Vietnam. Brushed on raw, the glaze is pink. Its colour appears only in the kiln.
IV · Fired in the kiln
The fire fixes the colour. Afterwards a glaze reads one way by a window and another under a lamp, and it varies a little from one firing to the next.
Last, its tassel, finished by hand, and a small ceramic charm engraved with R go into the box.
Film · Series #3
At the studio where our caps are made, from a block of clay to a finished box.
The studio and its long table. Clay kneaded on plaster. Liquid clay poured into white moulds. The opening of each sphere cut and wiped by hand. Rows drying on trays. Pink raw glaze brushed on. The kiln. The spheres after the fire, in colours the pink gave no sign of. Last, the box, dressed with a tassel and a charm.
For the record
Everything about this bottle in one place. Ingredients and care are given as printed on the label.
Alcohol, Aqua (Water), Parfum (Fragrance), Citronellol, Coumarin, Eugenol, Geraniol, Limonene, Alpha-Isomethyl Ionone, Linalool.
As printed on the Shadow Éclat label. Batch number: see packaging.
Spray onto wrists, behind ears or on the neck, 15–20 cm from the body, on clean, dry skin; keep away from the eyes. Store in a cool, dry place away from direct sunlight. Shelf life: 29 months from the manufacturing date. Flammable: keep away from heat and sparks.
Same scent in Patina
The same Shadow Éclat, with three brass pieces corroded, filed and polished, then set on the glass. The idea came from relics in Huế; twelve months of research and development went into the Patina line. Its shade is Brown Blue Patina, the deeper one Shadow Éclat shares with 221B and Béton Chaud. Each bottle is one of a kind.
Also in 12 ml, 1.285.200 ₫US$50or a 2 ml sample, 224.640 ₫US$9
Smaller sizesThe Ceramic line
I · Chypre Floral
Eau de Hajime
Like a first affection
Ceramic 50 ml · 3.855.600 ₫US$155Currently unavailable · expected back late November
II · Green
Pluviophile
A Rain Reverie
Ceramic 50 ml · 3.580.200 ₫US$145Currently unavailable · expected back late November
III · Floral Fruity
Nostalgic March
A Memory in Bloom
Ceramic 50 ml · 3.855.600 ₫US$155Currently unavailable · expected back late November
IV · Woody Leather · its pair
221B
The Reckless Dreamer
Ceramic 50 ml · 4.131.000 ₫US$165Currently unavailable · expected back late November
VI · Spicy Amber
Béton Chaud
Where Summer Felt Like Freedom
Ceramic 50 ml · 4.131.000 ₫US$165Currently unavailable · expected back late November
Prices incl. 8% VAT. Every scent comes in both lines, Ceramic and Patina.
Questions
Same scent, two bottles: Patina on Brass or Ceramic — see how each is made.
Smell all six at our three houses in Ho Chi Minh City, open every day. We deliver within Vietnam only — see Stockists for Taiwan.
Anything else: +84 89 649 0038 or info@r-parfums.com.
Smell it first
Smell Shadow Éclat and 221B side by side, on paper and on skin, at any of our three houses.
+84 89 649 0038 · info@r-parfums.com
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