@arkieb1 Yup. I’ll ditto, thritto, quadritto that.
The first few times I looked through the site I filtered out all non-Gem grade pearls. Mistake. For two reasons -
A) The shape qualifier always gives preference to rounds… And dents and dimples are are further reductions on off-round shape. But I was after baroques with magical colour play - asymmetric outlines, odd protrusions, and surface contusions weren’t on
my #CareAbouts list at all!
B) Enrique, the main grader, is one of the farm’s co-founders and one of the four implanters. So he’s a dreamer, and a designer - it’s not unreasonable that the grades themselves are therefore more art than science. My bracelet has two Gem+ specimens that my eyes believe are more colorful than the majority of the other pearls; I don’t know why they didn’t earn the SN title! As an international consumer - the photography makes it possible for me to not care that they didn’t earn the SN title. Though I can’t lie, I’d have liked a complete set of Gem SNs

“Lush”. Another descriptor that I’m happy to appropriate
@mrs-b Thank you love
I hope all is… As well as is possible out there. If touching or ingesting pearl nacre had any medicinal value I’d have a sizable portion of my collection on its way out to you… Barring that revelation - I’m happy to have at least provided something soothing for the eyes
@AV_ If you ever write a book - or illustrate a book, as the case may be! - do let me know. I will want to read it.
I had a paua shell bracelet once. Maori name for abalone. Cheapie little thing, bits of shell glued into ill-fitting stamped-as-silver bezels. I used to imagine that must be what Really Nice opals and pearls looked like - only, y’know, all the way ‘round, and without the glue. Then I discovered that abalone is a seafood specialty… And I put the bracelet away. Not entirely sure where - or even
what - that line is, but that crossed it
I don’t have my little UV lamp here

I’m looking forward to seeing the fluorescence when I’m home! I suppose that seals these pearls as the LBDs of jewellery, client meeting to nightclub...
Thank you @arzhay!!