# Mộc · concept and image notes

Mộc is a fictional herbal spa in Đà Lạt, created as a frontend portfolio showcase. Its name, staff, treatments, availability and prices are invented. No real appointments are made, no payments are taken, and entered details are not sent or stored. The design does not claim health benefits or a traditional local bathhouse heritage.

## Original generated hero

`assets/herbal-spa.jpg` was generated with the built-in image generation tool on 2026-10-24, then converted to JPEG for the web. It depicts an imagined Vietnamese highland spa interior, not a photographed venue. It appears in the hero, foot-soak treatment card and the portfolio thumbnail. The hero caption and image alt text identify it as AI-created.

Final generation prompt:

> Use case: photorealistic-natural. Asset type: editorial hero photograph for Mộc, a fictional Vietnamese herbal spa in Đà Lạt. Create a quiet, bright, believable still life in a modest Vietnamese highland house, not a luxury resort: a low wooden foot-soaking basin with water and a few green leaves, freshly cut lemongrass stalks, ginger and pomelo leaves in a shallow woven bamboo tray, two plain cotton herbal compress bundles and a folded ivory cotton towel, on a worn honey-brown timber bench beside a timber casement window. Background softly out of focus: a small garden with clay pots and an ordinary tiled-roof hillside home among Đà Lạt pine trees. Natural overcast morning daylight, luminous cream plaster, warm terracotta floor, soft leaf greens, honest material texture, calm everyday hospitality. Medium-distance editorial composition, portrait 4:5, with basin and herbs clearly visible in central lower half, window above. No people, no lettering, no logos, no candles, no black stones, no bamboo walls, no tropical beach palms, no dark moody lighting, no swimming pools, no onsen.

The botanical logo and favicon are original SVG artwork. Typography: Lora and Be Vietnam Pro via Google Fonts, with local fallbacks.

## Original generated herbal-compress image

`assets/herbal-compress.jpg` was generated with the built-in image generation tool on 2026-10-24, then resized and converted to JPEG. It is a separate composition for the warm herbal compress treatment and its selected-treatment summary, not a crop of the hero. The cotton bundles are illustrative, not photographed products from a real spa.

Final generation prompt:

> Use case: photorealistic-natural. Asset type: landscape 16:9 treatment-card photograph for Mộc, a fictional herbal spa in Đà Lạt, Vietnam. Primary subject: two plump off-white cotton herbal compress pouches with short tightly wrapped fabric handles, clearly recognizable, resting diagonally on a folded soft sage-green cotton towel on a small worn timber massage-room table. One pouch lies on its side with its round herb-filled head in the center foreground, the second stands behind it. A few fresh lemongrass stalks and thin ginger slices in a small ceramic dish at the side. Quiet warm cream plaster background, soft natural daylight from a window outside the frame, honest cotton fibers and wood grain, gentle shadows. Close-up editorial still life, bundles occupy the middle 60 percent and remain fully visible in a wide crop; serene, bright, grounded Vietnamese neighborhood spa, not luxury resort. Distinct composition: no water basin, no large herb tray, no view through a window, no people, no lettering, no logos, no candles, no black stones, no borders.

## Illustrative photographs

The following Unsplash photographs are mood references, not photographs of Mộc or its staff. They remain subject to the [Unsplash license](https://unsplash.com/license).

- `assets/two-guests.jpg`: https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1544161515-4ab6ce6db874 · oil massage reference.
- `assets/oil.jpg`: https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1515377905703-c4788e51af15 · massage oil reference.

## Retained, unused assets from the earlier concept

- `assets/dalat-rooftops.jpg`: [Quang Vuong, Đà Lạt town view](https://www.pexels.com/photo/scenic-view-of-dalat-city-with-traditional-architecture-35731548/), under the [Pexels license](https://www.pexels.com/license/).
- `assets/dalat-pines.jpg`: [Thai Nguyen Anh, a foggy pine forest of Dalat](https://unsplash.com/photos/igyVVC6uHJs).
- `assets/pine-mist.jpg`: https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1448375240586-882707db888b
- `assets/soak.jpg`: https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1507652313519-d4e9174996dd
- `assets/stones.jpg`: https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1600334129128-685c5582fd35
- `assets/clay-mask.jpg`: https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1570172619644-dfd03ed5d881