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Jo Malone Earl Grey and Cucumber beside Red Roses on face up heart cards, shot by David Lineton, fragrance still life photographer London.

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Seasonal gifting for Jo Malone London, stills and stop frame animations for social. The scenes had to cover Valentine's, Christmas, afternoon tea, weddings and general celebration, and still read as one house across all of them. Flatlay is unforgiving. Everything sits on the same plane, so there is no depth to hide a weak idea behind, and the story has to be told entirely through what the props are doing. So the props do something. A heart made of playing cards, a noughts-and-crosses grid taped out on the ground, a handwritten note, crackers spilling gold confetti. Paper, ribbon and card rather than seasonal decoration, which holds the palette to cream, black and white and leaves the colognes, candles and boxes as the brightest objects in frame.

Cologne bottles at top and bottom right among tan cards, red hearts peeking through, shot by David Lineton, fragrance still life photographer London.
Tilted black paper crosses and a nought, Jo Malone candle at top right, shot by David Lineton, fragrance still life photographer London.

The light is flat and soft from above with almost no shadow, and that was chosen for the animation as much as for the stills. A raking source would have crawled across the ground frame by frame as the props moved. Holly built the scenes so they could be taken apart and rebuilt piece by piece for the stop frame. The same set logic sits under my gifting flatlay photography for other seasonal work. Set design: Holly Isabella. Shot in London by David Lineton.

Milky tea and a half eaten iced cake beside two bowed Jo Malone candles, shot by David Lineton, fragrance still life photographer London.
Black and amber Jo Malone bottles on untied bow ties, top hat brim below, shot by David Lineton, fragrance still life photographer London.
Dark and pale Jo Malone colognes on rumpled cream fabric, white hydrangea top right, shot by David Lineton, fragrance still life photographer London.
Milky tea and a half eaten iced cake beside two bowed Jo Malone candles, shot by David Lineton, fragrance still life photographer London.
Black and amber Jo Malone bottles on untied bow ties, top hat brim below, shot by David Lineton, fragrance still life photographer London.
Dark and pale Jo Malone colognes on rumpled cream fabric, white hydrangea top right, shot by David Lineton, fragrance still life photographer London.
Milky tea and a half eaten iced cake beside two bowed Jo Malone candles, shot by David Lineton, fragrance still life photographer London.
Black and amber Jo Malone bottles on untied bow ties, top hat brim below, shot by David Lineton, fragrance still life photographer London.
Dark and pale Jo Malone colognes on rumpled cream fabric, white hydrangea top right, shot by David Lineton, fragrance still life photographer London.
Milky tea and a half eaten iced cake beside two bowed Jo Malone candles, shot by David Lineton, fragrance still life photographer London.
Black and amber Jo Malone bottles on untied bow ties, top hat brim below, shot by David Lineton, fragrance still life photographer London.
Dark and pale Jo Malone colognes on rumpled cream fabric, white hydrangea top right, shot by David Lineton, fragrance still life photographer London.
Ribboned Jo Malone cologne on a black envelope, candle with black bow below left, shot by David Lineton, fragrance still life photographer London.
Ribboned Jo Malone cologne on a black envelope, candle with black bow below left, shot by David Lineton, fragrance still life photographer London.
Ribboned Jo Malone cologne on a black envelope, candle with black bow below left, shot by David Lineton, fragrance still life photographer London.
Ribboned Jo Malone cologne on a black envelope, candle with black bow below left, shot by David Lineton, fragrance still life photographer London.
Opened black crackers tied with white ribbon, gold confetti and two Jo Malone colognes, shot by David Lineton, fragrance still life photographer London.
Opened black crackers tied with white ribbon, gold confetti and two Jo Malone colognes, shot by David Lineton, fragrance still life photographer London.
Opened black crackers tied with white ribbon, gold confetti and two Jo Malone colognes, shot by David Lineton, fragrance still life photographer London.
Opened black crackers tied with white ribbon, gold confetti and two Jo Malone colognes, shot by David Lineton, fragrance still life photographer London.

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