The Body Tale Whisper of Rice

Every corner of a childhood home.

Whisper of Rice is a tribute to home, where memories linger in every corner and the warmth of family stays in the air. Made in Indonesia with local perfumer Alvin Bunawan, it holds nostalgia gently.

Bergamot opens it crisp, like morning light through lace curtains in a childhood house. Rice powder, honey, and orris form the heart: a warm hug, quiet afternoons in the kitchen, footsteps on creaking wooden floors. Sandalwood, civet, and amberwood settle underneath, warm and deep, trailing like the feeling of coming home. Powdery, woody, and musky, worn close like skin.

The Body Tale makes fragrances in Indonesia out of familiar things. Roasted green tea made with milk. Chamomile with a slightly bitter almond. Sparkling lychee syrup. The walk out of a salon after a gentle blow-dry, and the moment after a bath when skin is soft and clean.

Tea and milk come back again and again: roasted, steeped with chamomile, or pressed from soybeans. So do the small rituals of looking after oneself, shampoo bubbles and something milky smoothed onto skin. Home is in it too, a childhood kitchen and a cup shared across generations, and so is Bunga Raya, the red hibiscus that is Malaysia's national flower. Every release is an extrait.