La Maison de FêtesMoodboard · Two worlds
Mood reference for ONDINE
Eau de Parfum No.1 Launch · Spazio Meridiana, Milan · 17 September 2026

ONDINE

One concept, two temperatures. The waterline as pure system — or the waterline as memory.

World ALa Linea
World BFebbraio
ChosenA
Where it started

One concept, two temperatures. The waterline as pure system — or the waterline as memory.

The brief she gave her perfumer was one sentence — “the Ligurian sea in February.”

World A

La Linea

A

The system, executed without commentary: bone board, a seawater band beginning at the same measured height on every piece, the ONDINE wordmark blind-debossed into the dry white above, and every printed word held below the line in graphite. Nothing is decorated; everything is registered. The suite behaves like the bottle — machined, frosted, certain.

La Linea — mood reference
La Linea
Bone White
#EFECE6
The surface this world is set on.
Seawater
#9BB0B4
The colour allowed to lead — rules, marks, accents.
Graphite
#2E2E2C
What every word in this world is set in.
DM Sans 500 · wordmark, tracked +0.22em
DM Sans 300/400 · everything else

The material, as delivered

Stockrigid bone board

Quoted from this suite's own production spec — the stock the invitation was actually printed on. Surfaces are rendered from that spec, not photographed.

Any ink above the waterline
A second typeface
Lowercase letterspacing
Wave, foam or texture that breaks the flatness
World B

Febbraio

B

The same three values read as memory: the actual Ligurian sea in February, photographed flat and long, the horizon standing in for the waterline. Type floats in the overcast sky in quiet graphite; the sea occupies the card’s lower field, deep and matte. The launch told as the founder’s sentence rather than the brand’s ruler.

Febbraio — mood reference
Febbraio
Cold Sea
#9BB0B4
The surface this world is set on.
Overcast Bone
#EFECE6
Sampled from the pictures — it lives in the photographs, not the layout.
Graphite Depth
#2E2E2C
What every word in this world is set in.
DM Sans 500 · wordmark, tracked +0.22em
DM Sans 300/400 · everything else
Any ink above the waterline
A second typeface
Lowercase letterspacing
Wave, foam or texture that breaks the flatness
The decision, as they saw it

The grid, or the weather.

Febbraio La Linea
A · La Linea B · Febbraio
World A · Chosen

La Linea

La Linea was chosen. Seven pieces are dipped to the same constant depth.

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