Crimson & Cobalt & Lavender

Cobalt (medium, vivid — the most vivid Provençal summer sky at its most intensely blue at zenith) and Lavender (pale medium purple — the flowering lavandin field at the most photographed Provençal moment) create the most immediately Provençal and most universally beloved natural cool pair — the deep sky and the flowering fields. Against Crimson's passionate Provençal poppy, this creates the most specifically Provençal harvest-season botanical palette.

The palette is the visual world of Provençal lavender at peak harvest — specifically the most celebrated lavender landscape in France: the Plateau de Valensole at peak bloom (mid-July) when the lavandin fields are at their most dramatically purple and the Provençal summer sky is at its most intensely cobalt blue. The Provençal harvest palette: the deep vivid crimson of the Papaver rhoeas (field poppy — which blooms earlier than the lavender — May-June — but whose crimson color persists in the agricultural margins alongside the lavender field throughout the summer); the medium vivid cobalt of the Provençal summer sky at zenith (the specific medium, deeply saturated, intensely vivid cobalt blue of the Provence sky directly overhead in the most clear midsummer conditions — significantly deeper and more vivid than the pale horizon sky blue); and the pale medium lavender of the lavandin flower (the specific pale medium purple of Lavandula × intermedia — lavandin — the hybrid lavender most widely cultivated on the Plateau de Valensole — whose characteristic pale medium lavender color is the most immediately recognizable and most internationally photographed botanical color in France).