Natural body color running from pale straw through warm honey to soft amber, formed under conditions no two stones shared. Colorless grading treats warmth as a defect to be priced down. We have never read it that way- champagne sits against skin and against gold in a way no white diamond does.

Kite, hexagon, shield, lozenge, bullet, trilliant. Angular outlines we pushed into the mainstream in 2014, when the trade still cut almost everything round. A straight edge behaves differently than a curve- it sits flush against another stone, holds a line in a cluster, and gives a designer geometry to build on rather than work around.