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Building a hero perfume film without a perfume shoot

Hiro Tanaka
Hiro Tanaka
Head of Production · 8 min read · April 2, 2026
Building a hero perfume film without a perfume shoot
TL;DR

Every frame of L'Oréal's Golden Hour was generated without a physical product on set. Here's the creative and technical method.

Key Takeaways
  1. 013D product scan was the only physical input — all scenes generated from reference.
  2. 02Lighting consistency across 40 generated scenes required a custom latent space anchor.
  3. 03Final grade reduced to 4 hours because generation output was already colour-consistent.

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