In the tropical seas of the French Polynesia, the kingdom of Neptune has given nature its most valuable jewel. People have commonly called it the black pearl though Tahitian pearl is the right name if only to define its distinct and immense beauty. The source and subject of many legends of early civilizations, it has never ceased to amaze people with its unique elegance.
The Tahitian pearls are a creation by the best of what the Pacific can offer. It is made into perfection from mere sand by the black-lipped oyster or the Pinctada Margaritifera. It is a product of the animate beings and the inanimate object’s creative yet natural combination. Even with their conquest of several fields, humans have yet to accomplish what the black-lipped oyster did. The most they could do is to improve further the innate beauty of Tahitian pearl. They could only pay homage to it by embedding to thrones of radiant metals such as gold and silver.
There are many wrongly thought that Tahitian pearls only come in black. In fact, these have different fantastic and natural colors. Whether it is in silvery white, grey with a metallic luster, or in vivid yellow, green and even purple, it still has the same wondrous appearance. However, no matter what color it comes in, it still preserves the aura of royalty it is worthy of as the queen of pearls. Despite its size, just as large as ordinary pearls, it still deserves its title. It is usually seven to eight millimeters.
These may have the same colors when gathered for a certain jewelry design but freshwater pearls are all quite different from each other. It is impossible to find perfectly similar ones. Every Tahitian pearl is exceptional like the mother-of-pearls they respectively come from, a bona fide treasure for its owners.
Just like every thing, else mortal, Tahitian pearls also have flaws. It retains worthily the title as the queen, however, with its gleam, smoothness, and thickness of the nacre. These minor flaws cannot stain its over-all magnificence.
Because the black-lipped oyster’s mother-of-pearl has a shell that by itself is a treasure, many have hunted it to near-extinction. However, campaigns have been initiated to protect these treasures in the South Pacific, particularly in French Polynesia. This time it is the humans’ turn to ensure that they continue to enjoy one of the ocean’s most wonderful gifts, the Tahitian pearl.
