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Jackie Kennedy: "Pearls and roses are always appropriate"

Both fragile, both feminine and both eternally beautiful, roses and pearls are a natural pairing

In my world. Pearls and Roses symbolise love and loyalty. Just ask Oscar Wilde.

The other day I was reading The Nightingale and the Rose to my daughter, his heartbreaking children’s story in which a nightingale observes an emotionally distraught college student lament the absence of a red rose among the myriad of plants before him. The red rose, he wails, is needed to win over the hand of his true love.

“Mummy, what if there really were no more roses in the world!” exclaimed my daughter. “What would we do?”

“That’ll never happen,” I replied, but in truth she got me thinking. How would we cope with a world without roses and pearls

So many perfumes and beauty products are created from this beautiful flower. I decided to dedicate a short post to them and to my favourite pearls.

Cruelty-free, vegan Chantecaille’s superb, concentrated Rose de Mai rose face oil and cream, is one outstanding example. And Chantecaille’s rose water is on the list too. It’s the best, purest rose water I have ever tried.

And I certainly don’t want to contemplate a world without my favourite Mizuki pearls! In the skilled designer hands, these orbs are transformed in highly modern and sculptural ways, perfectly reinvented for the contemporary woman. And of course, nothing flatters the complexion like pearls.

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