Journal — Gemstone Education

Your Guide to Champagne Moissanite Moissanite is adored for its beautiful colourless appearance, which delivers a stunning, timeless look. However, similarly to diamonds, moissanite is available in a variety of colours and tones, one of our favourites being champagne.  Offering a distinctive yet still timeless style, champagne moissanite is increasing in popularity with those looking for a slightly more unique alternative. It appears as a divine, yellowy tone, reminiscent of its namesake. It can bring a slightly vintage feel to a ring, and looks truly divine in every stone shape and setting style. Generally, we recommend setting champagne moissanite in...

Gemstones & their meanings While moissanite will always be our favourite gemstone, there are so many beautiful jewels in the world that would be remiss for us not to discuss. Plus, as jewellery design styles develop and modernise, there are many divine new ways to include other gemstones in your moissanite engagement ring or wedding band. The Moissanite Company only utilises laboratory created gemstones. Let’s begin with highlighting some of the most popular gemstones and their meanings. Sapphire:The birthstone for September, sapphires come in a few different colours, but the most common and well known is a royal blue gemstone, and many believe...

Why Moissanite is More Popular Than Ever While diamonds are traditionally the most popular gemstone for engagement rings, more and more couples are looking for alternatives that offer greater affordability and ethicality.  Sapphires, rubies, and emeralds are common alternatives, popular with members of the royal family and celebrities wanting a colourful ring, but even these beautiful stones lack the durability and timeless simplicity that diamonds offer. Enter: Moissanites. Second only to diamonds on the Mohs Scale of Hardness, moissanite offers an uncanny visual resemblance to diamond, with its colourless presentation and stunning sparkle. In recent years, moissanite has gained significant...

Moissanite Diamond - What You Need To Know As moissanite rapidly grows in popularity, many are mistaken in thinking moissanite is just a variation of diamond, often referring to the stone as ‘moissanite diamond’ because of the uncanny visual similarities. In reality, moissanite is actually a real gemstone, with its own unique characteristics and benefits. From the chemical composition of the stones - a moissanite stone is silicon carbide (SiC) and a diamond is carbon (C) – to the appearance, these two stones are quite different and ‘moissanite diamonds’ don’t exist. Moissanite was discovered in 1893 by scientist, Dr Henri...