I’m Mustajab. A writer by practice, a gem lover by instinct. Sapphrion is not a content project, not a brand, and definitely not a side hustle—it’s a digital journal for the curious. The quietly obsessed. The ones who pause in museum gift shops not for the souvenirs, but to get one last glance at the display.

I’ve always been drawn to gemstones—not for their gloss, but for their contradictions. How something millions of years old can end up in a weekend market ring. How we assign emotion to minerals. How a single jewel can move from a battlefield to a poem to a pawn shop—changing value every time. That tension between permanence and story is what Sapphrion is about.

I built this site because I couldn’t find anything like it. Most gem blogs either go the technical route—carat charts, clarity guides—or the mystical one, full of meanings and chakras and New Age gloss. But I wanted something in-between. A place that sees gems as cultural artefacts. That treats them like books, or paintings, or passed-down myths. That doesn’t rush to conclusions, but lingers in the detail.

The posts here are not quick reads. Some are researched, footnoted. Others are half-formed thoughts. Sometimes, I chase stories that lead nowhere—like a lost emerald that vanished from a French treasury. Sometimes, I just write about how a flawed ruby once caught the light a certain way, and I haven’t stopped thinking about it since.

Sapphrion is a one-person project, and maybe it always will be. I write at my own pace and publish only when I have something worth saying. I don’t chase traffic or optimise headlines. What I do chase is meaning, nuance, and the strange, slow romance of stones.

If you’ve found your way here, I hope you stay a while.