Osmanthus blooms in autumn, small and almost invisible, with a fragrance completely disproportionate to its size. In Chinese culture it carries the weight of memory, of home, of the mid-autumn moon and everything associated with it. You smell it before you see it, which is maybe the most elegant thing a flower can do.
This earring is built around a tiny osmanthus flower carved in jadeite — the rarer, more luminous form of jade, with a translucency that catches light differently from nephrite, almost like it's lit from within. One earring carries the jade flower. The other carries a freshwater pearl. Asymmetric by design, ancient materials in a completely contemporary arrangement — the pairing that FindingYoYo keeps coming back to, because it keeps being right.
Old stones. New logic. Quiet beauty.
Details:
- Material: Gold vermeil (thick gold coated on sterling silver)
- One earring: Jadeite osmanthus flower
- Other earring: Freshwater pearl
- Design: Asymmetric — intentionally mismatched
- Inspired by: Osmanthus blossom and the ancient beauty of jadeite
