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an ancient name on a thoroughly modern bottle.

Somma runs on hemp, an ingredient old cultures revered and modern ones suspect. The name came from the Rigveda. The packaging made it sleek: tinted glass, emboss, the Himalayas.

CBD-adjacent brands default to one of two languages: clinical and sterile, or loud and stoner-coded. Neither suits an ingredient whose oldest history is sacred medicine. The brief: a full identity and packaging system that honours that heritage while feeling modern and sleek, and a pack technical enough to carry it, tinted shaped glass, emboss, layered print, executed cleanly.

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Brand Identity
Brand Identity

an ancient name on a thoroughly modern bottle.

Somma runs on hemp, an ingredient old cultures revered and modern ones suspect. The name came from the Rigveda. The packaging made it sleek: tinted glass, emboss, the Himalayas.

CBD-adjacent brands default to one of two languages: clinical and sterile, or loud and stoner-coded. Neither suits an ingredient whose oldest history is sacred medicine. The brief: a full identity and packaging system that honours that heritage while feeling modern and sleek, and a pack technical enough to carry it, tinted shaped glass, emboss, layered print, executed cleanly.

Services

Brand Identity

Date

Mar 2026

Client

Somma

Industry

Wellness / Ayurvedic supplements

Timeline

6 Months

Creative Strategy

The name is the strategy: the sacred, the lunar, the vital.

In the Rigveda, soma is the ritual drink of immortality; in later Sanskrit, the moon; in Ayurveda, lunar energy and Ojas, the subtlest essence of health. One name roots the brand in the centuries when hemp was medicine, not menace. The mark follows the meaning: the O drawn as a full circle, the moon of the name, repeated across the system. And the Himalayas, where the ingredient grows and where Indian folklore keeps its deepest stories, became the brand's base layer, a mountain scape running behind every pack. Deep greens, an editorial serif, modern restraint over ancient reference.

Creative Production

The packaging carried the hardest brief: heritage-deep, technically exact.

Tinted, shaped glass bottles with the wordmark embossed into the surface, dropper formats in deep green, boxes layered with the mountain scape. Five lines, Sleep, Stress, Menstrual, Muscle, Vitality, each in its own colour inside one family. The build was technical: tint consistency, emboss depth, print layers holding across formats. Applications followed the same system, signage to digital, and we laid the foundations of the brand's site. Old space, modern object: the shelf makes the argument.

Results, not prophecies

Meanings in one Sanskrit name: the sacred, the lunar, the vital

Meanings in one Sanskrit name: the sacred, the lunar, the vital

Product lines on one shared system

Product lines on one shared system

Ingredient reframed from headline to supporting detail

Ingredient reframed from headline to supporting detail

Hemp spent its oldest centuries as sacred medicine. Somma's name remembers that, the moon in its mark, the Himalayas on its pack, and a finish modern enough that nobody asks about reputation.