Colour palette
A delicate and refined shade of pink
Unlike blue or yellow coloured diamonds, pink diamonds’ colour does not come from trace elements mixed into them, but from deformation in their crystal and molecular structure, causing the light to refract in a pink hue. In fact, scientists are still trying to uncover more about this mysterious gemstone’s colour. What does this mean? That pink diamonds develop their colour by a very unique and even more intense kind of pressure than other diamonds - they truly are one-of-a-kind. This special characteristic is what makes pink diamonds so rare, expensive and cherished.
The GIA (Gemological Institute of America) has a scale system to describe the different shades of pink diamonds, ranging from 'Faint' at one end to 'Fancy dark' at the other. 'Fancy pink' coloured diamonds are graded in the same way as their fancy coloured cousins: Faint, Very light, Light, Fancy light, Fancy intense, Fancy deep and Fancy vivid. The more saturated the colour of the diamond, the higher the price.