Blossom or Les Pétales Place Vendôme

Pearls enter both, from opposite directions. In Les Pétales Place Vendôme the pearl, Akoya or South Sea, is the centre, and cupped petals of close-set diamonds drift against it as if blown across the Paris square. Boodles' Blossom, a London line from 2016, starts with the flower, small sakura heads in three golds lit with diamonds, and adds detachable pearl drops later as a finishing note. A Japanese house looks at Paris; an English one looks at Japan.