Sage Rain is sage leaf with vintage, mossy undertones, a muted gray-green that feels like a garden after rain. It is one of the easiest greens to live with: calm in a bedroom, fresh in a kitchen, grounding in a living room, and lovely with natural wood, cream trim and terracotta pots. The ceramic matte keeps this soft green chalky and even, so it shifts gently with the light instead of shining.

Sage Rain is One Hour Ceramic, Wise Owl's 100% acrylic matte wall paint, made with a self-crosslinking resin and 3M ceramic microspheres instead of the crushed mineral that flattens ordinary matte paint. Those hard, round microspheres are why fingerprints, soil and grease wipe off with mild soap and water without marring the finish, and why the wall stands up to scrubbing and burnishing. It self-levels to cut brush drag, primes itself on drywall, cured plaster and masonry, covers 350 to 400 square feet per gallon, and is extremely low in VOCs at 50 g/l. The color comes from the original 25-color palette Wise Owl launched One Hour Ceramic with in 2020 and no longer appears on Wise Owl's current color list, so buy enough to finish the room in Sage Rain.