Coloured diamonds have become very popular in recent years. The craze for pink was kicked off by the engagement bauble Ben Affleck gave to Jennifer Lopez (seems like forever ago) and LeVian has popularized brown and “chocolate” diamonds. Natural coloured diamonds are quite rare, and as a result, quite expensive, particularly colours like blue, pink, red and green. Those in the brown and yellow tones tend to be somewhat less, but only somewhat.

Parade offers its Reverie Noir line with yellow, brown and cognac stones set in black gold. The darker metal really sets off the stones. Available starting at USD $7550.