Dreamy is a true black and the darkest colour Sumptuous offers. Where Spell Bound retains a trace of charcoal and Whisper is clearly a dark grey, Dreamy has no grey left in it at all. It is the absolute end...

Spell Bound is a very dark, near-black charcoal, deeper than Whisper, which still reads as a charcoal grey, and just short of Dreamy, which is a true black. It keeps the faintest amount of grey in it, enough that in...

English Toffee is the only genuinely brown colour in Sumptuous: a warm mid brown with a true toffee tone to it, caramel rather than chocolate and with none of the grey that neutralises the rest of the palette. Elite, the...

Read the swatch, not the name: Whisper is a dark cool charcoal-grey. It is one of the deepest colours in Sumptuous, a long way from the pale, barely-there tone the name implies, and it is easily the most misjudged colour...

Platinum is a mid cool grey with a brown undertone running underneath it, which is what stops it from being the flat, hard grey that the name suggests. It is the grey for people who want a grey floor but...

Elite is a mid warm taupe-brown, and the easiest way to place it is against Luxe: same family, but Elite is darker and distinctly warmer, with more brown pulled through the taupe. Where Luxe reads mushroom, Elite reads soft earth....

Luxe is a mid warm mushroom-taupe: the colour of a raw linen curtain or a dried mushroom cap, with more brown in it than Cloud Nine and less than Elite. It is the true middle of the Sumptuous neutrals: warm...

Despite the name, Cloud Nine is not a pale colour. It is a mid warm grey-taupe: a good deal deeper than Pearl or Porcelain, and comfortably in the middle of the Sumptuous range rather than at the light end of...

Porcelain is the coolest pale colour in Sumptuous: a light grey with a distinct green cast, closer to a pale stone or sea glass than to a warm cream. That green is what separates it from Pearl, which is a...

Pearl is a light warm greige: the pale end of Sumptuous, sitting a clear step above Royal Beige in lightness while keeping the same warm undertone rather than going grey. Put the two side by side and Pearl is the...

Royal Beige is a warm mid sand-beige with a faint pink cast to it: soft rather than yellow, and warmer on the floor than most beiges photograph. It is a mid tone, noticeably deeper than Pearl, which is the paler...