Sapin - Bougie très grand modèle
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What makes the design work
Diptyque brand studyVisual observations across the brand’s packaging. Individual formats and editions may vary.
Oval label
Upright oval about 75% of tumbler height with a double-rule border in Engraving Black on Paper Oval.
Ring address
House name and street address in a lowercase roman serif running continuously around the oval ring, about 5% of oval height.
Staggered name
Product name in high-contrast didone capitals split across two or three offset lines to fill the centre of the oval.
Reading the label
A single upright oval with a double-rule border, address text running around the ring, product name stacked in the centre; descriptor and weight outside below.
- Outer ring
- House name and street address running around the oval
- Centre
- Staggered capital product name, sometimes framed by a line engraving of the scent's subject
- Below oval
- Bilingual format line, weight or volume
Typography & hierarchy
The product name dominates the centre of the oval, its letters broken across two or three lines and offset like a typographic puzzle to fill the shape. The house name and address circle it in smaller lowercase on the ring, and a bilingual descriptor and the weight sit outside the oval at the base in small italic and roman.
Display
Didot, Engravers Roman
High-contrast didone-style serif
Uppercase · Regular, Medium
Label
Trajan, Adobe Garamond
Classical roman serif set along a curve
Lowercase address with lowercase house name · Regular
Body
Garamond Italic, Caslon Italic
Old-style serif with italic
Sentence case · Regular, Italic
Typeface suggestions based on visual similarity. These are not verified font identifications.
How the range holds together
The oval never changes; editions vary by ink inversion (black on white vs gold on black), carton pattern, vessel tint and the engraving inside the oval.
Shelf presence
On a shelf the identical black-on-white ovals repeat like a row of name plates; the only variation is the shape of each name, so the brand is recognised long before the scent is read.
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