Bottled tides — a world inside your product
A surreal fragrance campaign built around a miniature coastline, refracting glass and a sculpted wave. Get the full art direction behind the finished image.
Read the recipe & prompt
Bring these inputs
- Product reference images and accurate packaging details
- One central visual idea connected to your product or campaign
- Brand palette, audience and intended channel
- Required crop, label text and any elements that must remain unchanged
The method
- Choose the world your product will contain. Keep one strong visual idea; define the hero object, scale and silhouette before adding detail.
- Adapt the recorded prompt below: replace the fictional fragrance and coastline with your product and campaign concept. Specify geometry, materials, lighting and a restrained palette separately.
- Generate in your image tool with your product references. This recorded example was generated in one pass from the text prompt below, without reference images.
- Inspect the product shape, label, glass edges, water continuity, miniature architecture and crop. Refine any errors in your tool; outputs will vary.
- Keep the finished output, final prompt and references together. Bring them into SCENE as a draft for human review.
Recorded example prompt
Create one exceptional luxury fragrance campaign photograph, portrait 4:5 composition, for a fictional brand called TIDELINE. This is an art-directed surreal product advertising image, a hero example for a creative recipe library. It should reward close inspection but read instantly at thumbnail size: one monumental perfume bottle, one impossible tidal world. Do not create a website, collage, mood board, grid or mockup. CONCEPT — BOTTLED TIDES: A large precise rectangular perfume bottle made from thick pale sea-green optical glass stands on a dark, wet volcanic-stone plinth. The bottle has gently rounded corners, a heavy transparent base and a short cylindrical brushed-aluminium cap. A very small refined ivory label on the lower front reads only “TIDELINE” in perfectly legible black uppercase letters. The bottle fills roughly 65 percent of the frame height, shown at a three-quarter angle, camera slightly below its midpoint. The cap and entire bottle remain in frame. IMPOSSIBLE WORLD, PRECISELY COMPOSED: Inside the glass, an exquisitely detailed miniature coastal landscape occupies the lower two thirds: dark stratified basalt cliffs, narrow ivory limestone steps carved into the cliff face, tiny tidal pools, and a single dramatic turquoise curling wave. The crest exits through a clean circular aperture in the bottle’s right wall, becoming one elegant continuous arc of water that sweeps around the outside of the bottle and returns to the miniature sea. The wave must read as water with translucency, froth and surface tension, not a ribbon of plastic. Its overall silhouette is a controlled ellipse, framing the product without hiding the label. One small warm-coral architectural pavilion nestles into the cliffs, giving scale and one deliberate contrasting accent. No people, no boats, no extra buildings, no vegetation. MATERIAL AND SCALE: Physically convincing glass thickness, local refraction and caustics, subtle optical distortion where the miniature cliffs are seen through glass, tiny water droplets on the exterior, micro-texture on the aluminium cap, mineral veins and salt residue on the plinth. The miniature coastline is hyperreal, like an impossibly meticulous physical model photographed in a real luxury studio. Preserve clear separation between the glass bottle, the interior world and the exterior wave. LIGHT AND COLOUR: Deep petrol-teal seamless studio background, visibly brighter than black. A large soft warm key light from the upper left models the bottle and cliff textures; a narrow cool rim from behind the right edge illuminates the wave and glass. A restrained pool of golden refracted light falls onto the wet stone at the front. Palette: petrol teal, translucent turquoise, warm limestone, brushed silver, one coral accent. Strong but controlled contrast; dark details remain visible. No purple, neon glow, random particles or lens flare. FINISH: A meticulously art-directed editorial luxury campaign still, sophisticated material realism, medium-format advertising photography feel, 80 mm lens perspective, depth of field sufficient to resolve the miniature scene while the distant backdrop stays smooth. Leave breathing room around the hero silhouette. The wave, glass, cliffs and lighting must form one coherent designed composition. No added headline, no tagline, no watermark, no extra products. This is fictional creative, not a real fragrance or a performance claim.
Example provenance
Created for SCENE on 29 September 2026 using built-in image generation. One text-only generation; no reference image or post-generation retouching. Exact submitted prompt retained below. Fictional fragrance and architecture; no customer or performance claim. Creative direction: SCENE.
Adapt with care
- TIDELINE is a fictional demonstration, not a customer campaign or a performance claim.
- The impossible scene is a creative treatment, not a claim about product ingredients or properties.
- Real products need reference assets and a packaging and brand-fidelity check. Exact output is not guaranteed.
Some examples were produced with image-generation tools during development. SCENE does not generate images or video in the app.
