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.

Long parallel facets cut in tiers, running to a straight-edged outline. No crushed ice, no scintillation- step cuts trade glitter for depth, returning light in wide planes that draw the eye down into the stone. With so few facets and such open planes, there is nowhere for a poorly made stone to hide.