In 2013, photographer Hannah Palmer and designer Alexandrine Lemaire, both freelancers,
decided to create their own artisanal tonic. “We didn’t even have a business plan,” explains
Alexandrine. “We just wanted to make a product that we liked since we were both foodies who
loved cocktails and going out.”
After testing many versions, the two young women settled on a recipe, helped along by Hannah
Palmer’s training in chemistry. “Tonics were originally medicines,” states Lemaire. “We wanted
to return to an ancestral way of making tonic by removing all the chemical additives used by
industrial producers.” Drawing on her knowledge of design, Lemaire developed the branding
featuring simple graphics and used glass bottles reminiscent of old apothecary jars to play on
the idea of tonics as medicine.