How do we come up with the names for our outdoor showers?

You may have noticed that our outdoor showers have special names. We are regularly asked where these unusual names come from today and that inspired us to write this article.

The names of our outdoor showers are not just random (well, actually ;-)), they are the names of cloud types, varieties, shapes and phenomena. A cloud is a collection of tiny water droplets, ice crystals or a mixture of both and we thought this suited our refreshing and beneficial rain showers very well. That is why the choice to use these names was quickly made.

There is an international system for naming clouds, this system is based on an eighteenth century system devised by the English pharmacist and physicist Luke Howard. The different cloud genera belong to a family, or a combination of families. The four families are: high clouds, medium clouds, vertically developed clouds and low clouds and these families are subdivided into different types. So there are quite a few names to choose from. The final choice of a name is mainly determined by our personal taste (what we think sounds nice and is easy to write and pronounce).

Our range of outdoor showers has now grown significantly and we have adopted the cloud names Alto, Arcus, Stratus, Cumulus, Calvus and Cirrus, among others. With every new model we develop, we use the cloud atlas again and determine together with the team what name we will give to the new outdoor shower. 

A fun process, which we usually end quite quickly.