Glass Vase

A tall clear glass vase with no flowers in it. Tapered from a narrow base to a wider mouth with a slight outward flare at the rim. No pattern, no colour, no decoration. The glass is thick enough to feel stable on a table and thin enough to stay out of the way of whatever goes inside it. Around twenty five centimetres tall. This is the only product in the collection that arrives empty.

$20.00 USD. Same day delivery, seven days a week, across all Bali locations including Seminyak, Sanur, Ubud, Canggu, Denpasar and Nusa Dua. Clear glass vase, standalone or add to any flower order.

Why This Exists

Most Bali villas do not have a vase. This is the problem I did not anticipate when I opened the shop on Jl. Camplung Tanduk in 2013. We were selling bunches and the flowers looked beautiful in the shop. They looked beautiful in Kadek's delivery photos. Then a customer in Kerobokan sent a WhatsApp photo back and the twelve pink roses were standing in a plastic water jug with the label still on it. The flowers were perfect. The presentation was not.

I started asking. Villa after villa, Airbnb after Airbnb, the answer was the same. Plates, bowls, cups, cooking pots, bathroom glasses. Almost never a proper vase. Guests were putting my roses in drinking tumblers or cutting the top off a water bottle. That is when I added this product. It was 2015 and the short-stay rental boom was hitting Bali hard. Every second order was going to a villa or apartment that had been furnished for sleeping and cooking, not for receiving flowers.

The Villa Vase Problem

A guest at a Four Seasons villa in Jimbaran has a vase. The resort provides one because the resort understands presentation. But someone staying in a converted family compound on a back lane in Kerobokan does not. Neither does the digital nomad renting a room above a warung in Batu Bolong. And the couple in the Pererenan rice field Airbnb with the beautiful infinity pool and the hand-woven rattan furniture? They have seventeen decorative cushions and zero containers suitable for cut flowers.

This is the gap. Someone orders a bunch of twelve red roses or a bunch of pink roses and the flowers arrive looking exactly like the photo. Then the recipient has to find something to put them in. Drinking glasses are too short. The stems crowd and the heads push against each other. The water surface is too small and the bottom roses dry out within a day. Ceramic bowls require cutting stems so short that the bouquet loses its shape. A proper vase solves all of this in one purchase.

A WhatsApp Order from Osaka at 2am

In March last year a Japanese woman messaged us at 2am Bali time. She was in Osaka. Her sister was staying in a rented villa in Umalas for three weeks and had bought a bunch of tuberose from the Pasar Badung market that morning. Beautiful stems. Fresh. She sent a photo to the family group chat of the flowers standing in a glass tumbler on the kitchen counter. The stems were doubled over the rim and the water barely reached halfway up. The sister in Osaka saw the photo and thought the same thing I would have. Good flowers, wrong container.

She found our website, saw the vase, and ordered it at 2:07am. No flowers. No card. Just the vase. Kadek delivered by 10am. The sister in Umalas trimmed the tuberose stems, filled the vase with fresh water, and sent a new photo to the group chat by lunchtime. The tuberose looked like it belonged in the villa instead of looking like it was being stored. The Osaka sister messaged us again two weeks later and ordered a flower arrangement for the villa. She knew the vase was there waiting.

Two Ways People Buy This

About half the orders for this product arrive as an add-on. Someone is already ordering a bunch of flowers and they add the vase because they know the villa situation. They have either been to Bali before and learned the hard way, or they have read the accommodation reviews closely enough to notice that nobody mentions a vase in the kitchen. These buyers are solving a problem before it happens. They add $20 and the flowers arrive with somewhere to go.

The other half order the vase on its own. The flowers are already at the villa. Maybe the recipient bought them from a local market, or someone else sent them earlier in the trip, or the villa management placed a welcome bunch. The flowers exist. The vase does not. This is the emergency purchase. It arrives the same day and it fixes the situation immediately.

A Phone Call from Rotterdam

Last October a Dutch man called at half past four in the afternoon. His wife was on a month-long yoga teacher training in Tabanan, staying at a shared house near the Tanah Lot coast. He had already sent her a bouquet through us the week before. She loved the flowers but told him on a video call that she had to put them in a saucepan because the house did not have a single vase.

He ordered one vase. Then he paused. Then he ordered two. His logic was that if the house had no vases, the other six women on the training were probably in the same position. He asked me to include a small note with the second vase: "For whoever wants it." Kadek delivered both to the shared house in Tabanan the next morning. The wife called back on WhatsApp two days later to tell me that every woman in the house had gone to the local market that weekend and bought their own flowers. Six sets of market flowers in one house, two vases rotating between them. She asked if we could send four more. We did.

What This Vase Works With

The tapered shape handles every bunch product in the collection. A single rose sits centred with room to breathe. Six roses fill the middle third and the heads rest just above the rim. Twelve roses pack the mouth and create a dome. A bunch of heliconias fits because the narrow base holds the thick tropical stems together while the flare lets the heavy hanging bracts clear the glass. The only products this vase is not designed for are the foam-based arrangements, which arrive in their own containers.

Clear glass means the stems are visible. Some people want that, some do not. Visible stems in water look natural and uncontrived. They show the buyer and recipient exactly what the product is made of. There is no foam, no tape grid, no hidden mechanics. If the water is clean and the stems are trimmed, the arrangement looks honest. If the water has gone cloudy and the stems are rotting, it shows that too. Glass is unforgiving in that way. It rewards good care and exposes neglect. Change the water on day two, trim the stems on day three, and the glass stays clear through the full vase life of whatever is in it.

Care for the Vase

Wash with warm water and a drop of dish soap between uses. The narrow base means a standard bottle brush reaches the bottom easily. If mineral deposits build up from Bali's hard water, soak overnight in a mix of warm water and white vinegar. Rinse clean and the glass returns to full transparency. Store upside down on a cloth to drain. The glass is thick enough for daily handling and thin enough to look elegant on a shelf. Do not put it in a dishwasher if the villa has one. The combination of Bali water hardness and dishwasher detergent can leave a permanent haze on glass that no amount of vinegar will remove.

Delivery

Same day delivery across all areas of Bali. The vase is wrapped in bubble wrap and packed inside a padded box for transport. Kadek has delivered this product on scooter across every road surface between Kuta and Gianyar without a single delivery breakage. For villa and Airbnb deliveries, include the property name or address, the guest name, and a contact number. For resort deliveries to Legian, Jimbaran, Pecatu, or Bingin, include the guest name and room number. Add this to any flower order for $20 or send it on its own. Seven days a week including public holidays. Questions? Call +62 813 3862 5637 or visit the contact page. Browse the full extras collection or see the complete catalogue.