Le Petit Cactus or Piaget Rose
Mellerio · Piaget
Le Petit Cactus
The flower of the vanilla cactus, which opens for one night a year, made as a small burst of rose gold stamens around a single stone.
Piaget Rose
A rose in layered gold petals, modelled on the 80-petal rose named after Yves Piaget, with a diamond at its heart.
Gardeners, of a kind, stand behind these flowers. Yves Piaget, a lifelong rose grower, gave his name in 1982 to a Meilland rose that became Piaget Rose in 2012: layered petals of rose gold, plain or paved, around a diamond. Mellerio reaches back to Marie-Antoinette, who asked Redouté to paint the vanilla cactus that opens one night a year; Laure-Isabelle Mellerio made it Le Petit Cactus in 2019, rose-gold stamens around a stone. The rose is closed and full, the cactus flower spiky and open.
| Fact | Le Petit Cactus | Piaget Rose |
|---|---|---|
| Introduced | 2019 | 2012 |
| Designer | Laure-Isabelle Mellerio | — |
| School | Place Vendôme | Geneva |
| Materials | rose gold, diamond, coloured diamond, sapphire, tsavorite, other | rose gold, white gold, diamond, sapphire, emerald, tourmaline, garnet, aquamarine, amethyst |
| Moves | No | No |
| From | €440 | €1,490 |
| Top of line | €4,100 | €61,000 |
Prices in euros as published by each house, October 2026.
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