Maison Margiela — personal reinterpretation — Replica — Jazz Club
2025 · Warsaw
— Project
A perfume of memory, visualized as the silence before a sound. Replica Jazz Club is a study in restraint.
I rebuilt the bottle and its world from scratch in Blender to explore how a fragrance with a clear narrative — late nights, leather, smoke — can be photographed without leaning on its references. The result is a single object, lit like a stage, framed like an editorial.
— Concept
"Memory as material."
Replica is a perfume of memory. I translated that idea into visual language — the warmth of air as the medium of recollection, silence in the composition as the pause before scent.
— References
Reid Miles, Blue Note 1965 — typographic restraint, asymmetry
Saul Leiter, NYC 1957 — warm rim light through atmosphere
Wong Kar-wai, In the Mood for Love — intimate negative space
Aesop campaign — figure-ground discipline
Maison Margiela Replica — brand DNA reference
Vinyl macro — surface texture, micro-scratches
Caravaggio, Calling of Saint Matthew — single light source
Tom Ford Private Blend — heavy glass, restrained label
Hotel bar interior — practical light, warm ambient
— Composition studies
Hero framing · key light direction
Macro detail composition
Top-down lighting plan
— Modeling
Wireframe
Solid
Material Preview
Rendered
— Shading
01 / GLASS
IOR 1.52 · dispersion enabled · micro-roughness 0.05
02 / METALLIC
Anisotropic brushed · roughness 0.3 · metallic 1.0
03 / FABRIC
Cotton texture · roughness 0.85 · subsurface scattering enabled
04 / ROCK
Granite texture · roughness 0.95 · ambient occlusion baked
05 / LIQUID
Volume absorption · density 2.4 · color attenuation enabled
— Render/Final visualisation
Hero Full Bleed
Front pack
— MACRO DETAIL SERIES
Cap & Twine
Liquid Through Glass
Letterpress Label
Label & Type Detail (Wide)
— MATERIAL CLOSE-UPS
Glass Shoulder
Amber Liquid
Linen & Twine
— ADVERTISING FRAME
LIFESTYLE / IN-CONTEXT (Manhattan Building Facade)
— LIFESTYLE CONTEXT
LIFESTYLE / IN-CONTEXT (NYC Subway Station)
— DESIGN SYSTEM PAGE
COLOR PALETTE
MATERIAL LIBRARY
COMPOSITION RULES
— Technical
- Software
- Blender 4.2 · Cycles
- Resolution
- 3840 × 2160 px
- Samples
- 4096 per pixel · OptiX denoising
- Polycount
- Hero asset: 24500 · Scene: 187000
- Textures
- 4K PBR maps · custom normals on label & cap
- Render time
- 18 minutes per frame on NVIDIA RTX 4090
- Color pipeline
- ACES · Filmic Log Encoding
- Post
- Photoshop · color grading · atmospheric pass
- Hours
- 92 from concept to delivery
"Some scents are louder when they are quiet."
- Studio
- Davidova.Studio
- Art direction
- Alexandra Davidova
- CGI
- Alexandra Davidova
- Year
- 2025
- Location
- Warsaw · Worldwide
- Software
- Blender 4.2 · Cycles