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Johnnie Walker: Black Label — Serves

Johnnie WalkerBlack Label — Serves

The square Blue Label bottle laid on its side across a cobalt sweep, amber whisky glowing through the glass while ribbons of pale blue light curve across the surface behind it

Johnnie WalkerBlue Label

The Lancôme Idôle flacon, a flat rectangular bottle of pale gold, turning in light with reflections running across the glass.

A coupe garnished with a physalis beside a tumbler holding a clear ice sphere, ring marks left on the pale table, cloud and a low sun filling the window behind

PersonalThe Crossing

Three white Chantecaille Blanc Peony bottles and a face-cream jar standing against curled sheets of cream paper, a real white peony tucked at the base and soft sun raking across the curves

ChantecailleBlanc Peony

CreedAmbers · Centaurus & Delphinus

Macro of a deep red lipstick bullet rising from a polished black and gold barrel, one long soft highlight running down the sculpted wax face against flat pale grey

PersonalHourglass Lipstick

A clear Bohoboco perfume bottle with a black flocked cap balanced between tumbling dark wood blocks, violet hyacinth florets suspended mid-fall against warm off-white

Rake's ProgressBohoboco

The Narciso Rodriguez Santal Musc flacon smeared into long exposure streaks, deep red juice and gold cap dragging sideways across a pink-to-grey gradient

Narciso RodriguezSantal Musc

Three chrome Prada balm bullets lie in a stepped row on pale blue, pale blue, mint and banana-yellow balm drawn behind them in thick glossy swipes

Prada BeautyMonochrome Balm

A chrome mascara barrel rising out of blue-black, magenta and cyan gels raking down opposite flanks and colliding in a mirrored DIOR collar that flares white at its centre.

PersonalMascara Spin

A steel Audemars Piguet Royal Oak chronograph tipped forward on a peach-to-teal gradient, the blue tapisserie dial holding a soft warm bounce while the brushed bracelet links throw hard specular edges

A red Prada lipstick standing open on a white surface between two cream vintage telephone handsets and a coiled cord, lit so the red is the only colour in the frame

PersonalPrada Tech

A Dior Forever foundation bottle balanced flat between a curled amber shell above and a terracotta stone below, stacked into a cairn on white with soft top light throwing a faint pink shadow.

DiorWonderland · Dior Summer

A Loewe bottle suspended inside an inflated transparent air-pillow sleeve, the ribbed plastic diffusing the product into bands of violet, cyan and yellow against a bright white sweep

LoeweAir Cushion

A ring of hand-forged artist cutlery, anodised blue forks, oxidised copper paddles, brass ladles and a violet spoon, laid out on a pale stone floor cut diagonally by hard black shadow

Wallpaper*Handmade

A pair of berry-purple LeBron 13 high-tops suspended sole-to-side on a blush gradient, a hot white shaft of light rising from below so the translucent Zoom pods glow pink through the icy outsole

A chrome Dior Capture Totale Hyalushot tube stood upright on a clear glass disc pooled with serum and trapped bubbles, its fine tip drawing one bead down onto near-white, the disc rim striking a hard specular arc.

DiorCapture Totale HYALUSHOT

Molten gold pouring into a tilted blue-and-white Japanese bowl on a white plinth, the stream breaking on the glaze and running back over the rim in a thin thread down the pedestal against mottled stone.

PersonalKintsugi

A dark green Creed Green Irish Tweed flacon standing dead still at the centre of long green light trails that loop and fold around it in one continuous ribbon on black.

CreedGreen Irish Tweed

A solid gold Creed Millésime Impérial flacon laid on a skin of gold oil, the liquid tearing into ragged metallic ribbons behind it while one raking light runs a hard line down the polished shoulder.

CreedMillésime Impérial

A pink faceted Creed Wind Flowers flacon seen through a soft veil of blown petals, the glass shoulders blooming into diffuse highlights against a flushed pink ground.

CreedWind Flowers

A gold Dior lipstick with a building façade embossed into the rosewood bullet, stood beside its ribbed cap on plum-brown, two hard star flares breaking off the polished metal collars.

DiorWonderland · Dior in Gold

A Georg Jensen watch on a grey resin cube, a yellow-lined leather envelope wallet and a polished silver Mobius bangle staged on terracotta and marble plinths, hazy window light throwing long soft shadows across pale concrete

Wallpaper*Georg Jensen

A clear glass cone pendant with a glowing opal globe inside, hovering above a brushed copper light ring, against a deep teal ground with a soft pyramid of shadow rising beneath

Wallpaper*Masters of Suspense

A thread of molten gold running diagonally across a black ground of dark striated layers, the resinous surface catching just enough light to read as grain

CreedOud Zarian

The Black Label bottle turning in warm amber light, the gold striding man and the twelve-year label catching the edge of the beam against a dark ground

Johnnie WalkerBlack Label — Serves

A mass of overlapping petals filling the frame in dusty rose, sage and slate blue, the edges soft enough that the flower reads as brushed paint

Two Shiseido Ginza flacons side by side in the dark, lit from within so the glass runs from deep violet at the shoulder to hot pink at the base

An emerald and diamond ring lying on ribbed green glass, a slim gold rod laid across it and orange blossom scattered around the base, hard sun throwing the ridges into stripes

KO CreativeNew-Age Nostalgia

A slim gold baton suspended in an almost white field, soft light blooming behind it and a faint shadow falling away to the right

A tulip petal in extreme close-up, deep magenta grading to cream and pale green, its whole surface beaded with clinging air bubbles as if just lifted from water, against a flat pink ground.

PersonalFlowers

A fluted silver dish holding a red-handled knife and a fork, a small bunch of amber grapes set on the rim, everything lit hard against a graded grey ground

PersonalTable Rituals

A white-gold ring bent into a pave-set zigzag, balanced on the ridge of frosted acrylic peaks against warm cream, flat soft light so the diamonds read as small bright points and the metal holds one clean gradient

VashiLove Strike

Overlapping smears of glossy gel drawn across white, black over clear over yellow with a slick of orange and a stroke of hot pink, bubbles caught in the thickest part

PersonalTextures

The Herbivore Phoenix facial oil bottle standing in a bed of pressed flowers, scarlet poppy, a ruffled yellow bloom and pale lilac petals, on cream, one hard shadow thrown to the left

PersonalPhoenix

A red Sisley lipstick standing in its gold case, the bullet cut to a sharp angled edge, lit so the red stays saturated, with soft pink rose petals falling around and in front of it

A stack of black slabs with a block of yellow glass set into the top, the glass throwing a hard yellow shadow down the tower onto pale grey

Four make-up blenders balanced into a small tower on cream, blush, mauve, pale lilac and peach, each one matt enough to hold its own soft shadow

PersonalSponges

An overhead arrangement of compacts and lipsticks scattered with lilies, roses and forget-me-nots across a lit white plane, a folded chrome sheet standing behind them like an envelope

PersonalChrome Absurdist

A steel watch on a bracelet lying across a split block of pale stone, the rock cleaved to show its raw face, set on a plinth against a soft graded sky

PersonalWatch Report

Four lengths of clear glass rod standing against black, each one bending slightly out of true, lit so a single bright line runs the length of every curve

A Graff gold bangle set with a band of pavé diamonds, resting in the fold of a curved sheet of warm sand-coloured paper against a dark graded ground

Something About RocksGraff

$A clear glass sphere standing on a graded grey ground, a sprig of pale lilac bell flowers and green leaves held inside it and refracted into bands of iridescent colour around the rim$

Beyond NoiseOlfactive

A ring of pale tapered blades standing like a coronet against black, a bright ellipse of light lying flat beneath them and throwing a soft halo

Royal Salute21 Year Old

A Hennessy V.S bottle on a white ledge beside a tall highball of cognac over ice with a citrus twist, a bowl of lemons to the left and a honey dipper resting on a dish, against a pale blue sky

HennessyV.S · Made For More

A ribbed rose-pink tumbler balanced upside down on the rim of a highball full of ice and pale amber soda, a second glass behind holding one clear ice block and a sprig of thyme, all on warm cream.

The turned gold lid of a Guerlain Orchidée Impériale jar seen from above, its concentric grooves catching a band of light, bedded in white orchids against near-black

PersonalGuerlain

A stemmed glass of pale amber drink over ice with a cherry resting on the rim, standing on white between a polished chrome arch sheltering a tangerine and a tall clear column with cherries suspended in it

PersonalDrinks · Objects

A frosted Acqua di Gio flacon on a saturated red ground, a mountain range built from thousands of tiny gold beads rising behind it, the bottle throwing a warm red pool of light onto the base

Giorgio ArmaniHoliday

Two rhubarb serves on a linen table in hard afternoon sun, ice and cut rhubarb scattered around them, the glasses throwing long shadows with the light coming through the drink and landing red on the cloth

PersonalUntitled

A vertical sheet of water falling through the frame against black, the surface pulled into long silver folds where it twists

Two dried crimson strawflowers on a pale stem, blurred sideways by their own movement so the petals smear across the cream ground while the stem stays sharp

A rounded amber glass flacon with a gold shoulder held upright between two dark spear-shaped leaves against warm cream, lit so the glass glows from within

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