Hermes Calvi Duo Compact Card Holder Handmade In Evercolor Calfskin Leather Silver Hardware 3l Vert Criquent

Evercolor is the reason this one arrived before any other green in my collection. The grain is fine and even, softer to the thumb than Epsom yet far more resistant to scuffing than that softness suggests, and it holds deep, saturated colour beautifully – which matters when the colour is Vert Criquet.

Cricket green is a strange, wonderful choice: yellowish in sunlight, almost olive indoors, and never quite the same twice. I use it in a corduroy jacket through spring, where the two textures – wale and grain – sit nicely together, and catch light in completely different ways.

Capacity is the familiar two-sleeve arrangement: the left side takes the cards I actually use, the right takes the ones I ought to cancel, and a note slides behind either stack. Ten by seven centimetres of Evercolor, with silver-tone edges that suit the vegetable tone.

Honest note: this green fights. It argues with teal, it sulks next to olive, and it demands that the rest of your carry be quieter than it is. Worn with navy, ecru or denim it is superb; worn with anything similarly loud it becomes a costume.

And unlike stiffer calf, Evercolor gradually follows the shape of whatever pocket it lives in, so after a season the wallet has a slight curve that only you can see. I like that; not everyone does. It is not a beginner’s green – it is the green you buy once you already trust your own outfits.