Luxury Fragrance
Perfume
Twenty-seven seconds selling something you can't see. Gold dust and candlelight gather, settle, and resolve into a faceted ruby-glass bottle — a slow, warm reveal carried by smoke, reflection and rose.
The Brief & Challenge
Fragrance has no shape and no motion of its own. The spot has to make an audience feel warmth, weight and ritual using only the bottle, the light around it, and the things a scent implies — smoke, petals, gold, candlelight.
The direction was a single unhurried reveal: no cuts to a face, no copy until the end. Material and atmosphere carry the whole twenty-seven seconds.
Prompt Direction & Boards
Style was locked before anything was generated: ruby swirled glass with a gold guilloché cap, a palazzo interior raked with low sun, drifting incense smoke, dried roses on travertine. Each beat — dust gather, form, settle, logo — was approved on a storyboard frame sheet so pacing decisions happened on stills.
Shots were then generated against the approved boards, with variations pulled for the strongest light on the glass and the cleanest read on the wordmark.
Edit & Sound
The cut is mostly about hold times — how long the smoke breathes before the bottle locks, how long the logo sits before the end card. AI score and foley (low room tone, a soft glass chime, a single struck note) were laid to the final timing.
Shot Breakdown
Storyboard
10 Frames · Two Up