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The quatrefoil and the flower

Le Petit Cactus or Fleurette

Mellerio · Van Cleef & Arpels

Le Petit Cactus ring with five rose gold cactus flowers of spiky stamens, each centred on a white, brown or yellow diamond, on a cream ground
Image © Mellerio

Mellerio

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.

Fleurette

Van Cleef & Arpels

Fleurette

Seven round diamonds gathered into one small stylised flower, a corolla of stones with almost no metal showing.

Small enough to wear every day, both flowers keep a single bloom to the scale of a stud or a charm. Fleurette is seven round diamonds bunched into a corolla with almost no metal showing, a Van Cleef & Arpels motif of long standing that became a collection around 2000. Le Petit Cactus is mostly gold: rose-gold stamens radiating from one stone, which can be a brown or yellow diamond, a sapphire or a tsavorite. Fleurette sparkles white. The cactus flower answers in warm metal and colour.

Mellerio Le Petit Cactus vs Van Cleef & Arpels Fleurette, facts side by side
FactLe Petit CactusFleurette
Introduced2019—
DesignerLaure-Isabelle Mellerio—
SchoolPlace VendômePlace Vendôme
Materialsrose gold, diamond, coloured diamond, sapphire, tsavorite, otherwhite gold, rose gold, diamond
MovesNoNo
From€440Not published
Top of line€4,100—

Prices in euros as published by each house, October 2026.