Le Petit Cactus or Bouton d'or
Mellerio · Van Cleef & Arpels
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.
Bouton d'or
Little discs of gold, each with a stone at its centre, massed in rows and rings like the head of a buttercup.
The past is the material here. Bouton d'or comes from Van Cleef & Arpels' own archive, a 1936 motif of gold discs with a stone at the centre, revived in 2016 as massed buttercup heads. Le Petit Cactus comes from Mellerio's longer memory: Marie-Antoinette, the house's first royal client, and the vanilla cactus Redouté painted at her request, drawn by Laure-Isabelle Mellerio in 2019. In the hand, the buttercup is dense with polished discs, the cactus flower a single burst of rose-gold stamens.
| Fact | Le Petit Cactus | Bouton d'or |
|---|---|---|
| Introduced | 2019 | 2016 |
| Designer | Laure-Isabelle Mellerio | — |
| School | Place Vendôme | Place Vendôme |
| Materials | rose gold, diamond, coloured diamond, sapphire, tsavorite, other | yellow gold, rose gold, white gold, diamond, chalcedony, onyx, carnelian, mother-of-pearl |
| Moves | No | No |
| From | €440 | Not published |
| Top of line | €4,100 | — |
Prices in euros as published by each house, October 2026.
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