Obsidian, Amber, and the Negative Space That Sells the Product
The black obsidian base is the detail most perfume product prompts get wrong — they default to marble or wood, but obsidian gives the golden amber liquid a surface that swallows light instead of scattering it. That single choice shifts the entire mood from "boutique" to "high-end dark luxury."
The prompt builds a three-texture tension: the hard, reflective crystal glass; the matte, organic dried botanicals; and the deep, polished obsidian beneath. Each material plays a different role in how light behaves. The softbox handles the fill, the warm side spotlight carves the long shadows and creates the glass refraction highlights that sell the "crystal" claim. And the "clean negative space for branding" instruction is the pro-level detail that keeps the composition from becoming cluttered — it tells the model where not to put things, which matters as much as where it should.
Who Needs This Prompt: Perfume Brands and Packaging Designers
If you're a perfumery building a product page, a packaging designer needing hero images for a lookbook, or a DTC luxury brand shooting e-commerce photography on a budget, this prompt delivers studio-quality results without a lighting rig. The "clean negative space" instruction means you can composite a brand name or tagline directly over the generated image without cropping or masking.
For social media and product cards, generate at 1:1 square (1024×1024) or 4:5 portrait (1024×1280). For website hero banners or lookbook spreads, go 16:9 landscape (1344×768) and add "wide composition, shelf context" to the prompt. Avoid very tall portrait crops — the negative space collapses and the botanicals crowd the frame.
Dialling In Proxima Aurelia 2 for Product-Grade Glass Detail
Proxima Aurelia 2 is built for aesthetic intelligence and visual storytelling, which means it will make compositional decisions on your behalf — sometimes good ones, sometimes ones you didn't ask for. For product photography where the glass must be the star, you want the model to follow your lighting cues precisely rather than "improve" them.
- CFG / Guidance:
3.0–3.5— Aurelia 2's composition intelligence works best at moderate guidance; higher values make it add decorative elements you didn't request - Steps:
25–30— glass refractions and crisp reflections need the full denoising budget; 12 steps will blur the caustics inside the liquid - Resolution:
1024×1280(4:5) for portrait product cards;1344×768(16:9) for hero banners;1024×1024for square social posts
The "raw photo" and "8k resolution" tags in the prompt are doing real work here — they push Aurelia 2 away from its tendency toward painterly softness and into a sharper, more clinical render mode that suits product photography.
Five Concrete Ways to Adapt This Perfume Shot
5 Targeted Variations for the Obsidian-and-Amber Composition
- High-key flip: Replace "polished black obsidian stone" with "white Carrara marble slab" and change "dark velvet" to "ivory silk" — the entire palette inverts to a clean, spa-luxury feel while keeping the same lighting structure
- Lifestyle context: Add "a woman's hand reaching in from the left edge, fingers gently touching the bottle neck, soft skin texture, partial frame" — shifts from isolated product to in-use storytelling, perfect for Instagram ads
- Colour identity swap: Change "golden amber liquid" to "deep burgundy liquid" and "dried botanicals" to "dried lavender sprigs and black pepper corns" — signals a different fragrance profile (oud or spice) without changing the composition
- Shelf display wide: Add "three identical bottles in a row on a dark wooden shelf, middle bottle in focus, flanking bottles slightly out of focus, 16:9" — creates a collection shot for website product grids
- Seasonal shift: Replace "raw dried botanicals" with "fresh eucalyptus sprigs and a single white peony petal" and change "dark velvet" to "sage green linen" — instantly reads as spring or summer collection without touching the glass or lighting
Two Prompts Ready to Generate
Both examples below apply a variation from the list above and are tuned for Proxima Aurelia 2 at the recommended settings.
High-key marble flip — obsidian becomes Carrara marble, velvet becomes ivory silk, the whole palette shifts to clean spa-luxury while keeping the same softbox and side-spotlight structure
E-commerce product photography, luxury aesthetics. A crystal glass perfume bottle filled with golden amber liquid sits on a polished white Carrara marble slab, surrounded by raw dried botanicals and ivory silk. Soft studio softbox lighting mixed with a subtle warm side spotlight, casting elegant long shadows and realistic glass refractions. Hyper-detailed glass textures, crisp reflections, clean negative space for branding. Shallow depth of field, raw photo, studio quality, 8k resolution.
Lifestyle hand interaction — a woman's hand enters frame to touch the bottle, shifting from isolated product to in-use storytelling for social media ads
Luxury e-commerce product photography. A crystal glass perfume bottle filled with golden amber liquid on a polished black obsidian stone. A woman's hand reaches in from the left edge, fingers gently touching the bottle neck, soft natural skin texture. Raw dried botanicals and dark velvet in the background. Soft studio softbox lighting with warm side spotlight, elegant long shadows, realistic glass refractions. Hyper-detailed textures, crisp reflections, shallow depth of field, clean negative space for branding, raw photo, 8k.
More Aesthetic Product and Luxury Shots in This Space
These related prompts explore adjacent territory — luxury objects, ethereal lighting, and material contrast — useful for building a consistent visual language across a product line or brand board:
