Chaumet’s new high jewelry collection turns coffee, tea, and spices into art

Chaumet has turned flavor into a jewelry formula: 46 high-jewelry pieces arranged as a triptych that moves from botanic freshness to spicy sweetness and aromatic warmth. For anyone layering necklaces or rings, the message is clear, build the look the way you would build a tasting menu, starting light with Tea Field, Verbena Bouquet, and Mint Leaf, then moving into Vanilla Flower, Cinnamon Bark, and Star Anise, before landing on Coffee Aroma, Peppercorns, and Saffron Flower.

The collection, titled A Journey Through Nature, was unveiled at the Abbaye des Vaux-de-Cernay near Paris, where Chaumet staged an evening gala dinner and presented the pieces in a theatrical setting. The maison says the suite was crafted in its workshops at 12 Vendôme in Paris, a detail that matters because this is not a loose inspiration board but a tightly edited high-jewelry exercise in proportion, finish, and rhythm. Chaumet says the line was designed as a sensory journey from “the lightest breath of freshness” to “the most captivating warmth.”

That structure makes the collection unusually useful as a styling reference. The first chapter suggests the airy end of layering, the kind of necklace stack that sits close to the collarbone and relies on clean spacing and lighter visual weight. The middle chapter introduces rounder, sweeter notes that can anchor a ring stack or add body to a mixed-metal necklace lineup. The final chapter, with Coffee Aroma, Peppercorns, and Saffron Flower, pushes toward darker, more saturated effects, the sort of finish that works best when a chain or center stone needs to read like a final pour rather than a loud crescendo.

Chaumet said the house wanted to be “a little bit less heavy” than last year’s collection, and that nature can be found “right there in your mug.” That line captures the appeal of the collection better than any grander luxury language: it treats intimacy as a source of design, not a compromise. It is also the first collection created entirely under creative studio director Olga Corsini, which gives the suite added significance inside the house’s evolving visual language.

The brand’s naturalist identity still carries the frame. Chaumet says it was founded in Paris in 1780, became the official jeweler to Empress Joséphine, first came to Place Vendôme in 1810, and now calls 12 Vendôme its historic home. At the launch, guests included Song Hye Kyo, Li Bingbing, and Sophie Marceau, while Frédéric Anton shaped the dinner and ballet dancers and mezzo-soprano Axelle Saint-Cirel filled the abbey with movement and sound. The result was not just a showcase, but a reminder that the strongest jewelry stories can begin with something as ordinary, and as wearable, as tea, coffee, and spice.