If you’ve ever sat under a cherry blossom tree in full bloom and thought, “This moment should last forever,” Rolls-Royce just nodded, then embroidered your entire thought into the ceiling of a car.
Enter the Phantom Cherry Blossom — a one-off commission that takes the idea of sakura season and spreads it across the most luxurious canvas on four wheels. This isn’t a car you drive so much as one you float through, wrapped in a petal-soft daydream.
Let’s talk about the interior, which feels less like the inside of a car and more like a high-end boutique hotel lobby that got carried away with its spring décor (in the best possible way). The crown jewel? A bespoke Starlight Headliner featuring thousands of embroidered cherry blossom petals fluttering across the ceiling, made even more dramatic thanks to a galaxy of tiny lights built right into the fabric. Think “open-top picnic under a sakura tree,” except you’re also sitting on hand-stitched leather in near silence while someone else drives you.
And here’s the wild part: that embroidery — the one sprawling across the ceiling, doors, and partition wall — consists of more than 250,000 individual stitches. Two hundred and fifty thousand! That’s not just decorative flourish; that’s a six-month design project stitched into silk and leather, one petal at a time. The result is three-dimensional embroidery that looks like it might flutter in the breeze if you open a window. (Don’t. It’s a Rolls-Royce.)
Even the umbrellas — yes, the famous Rolls-Royce door-stashed umbrellas — are in on the theme. Unfurl one and you’ll find more cherry blossoms on the lining. The attention to detail is borderline obsessive, but then again, if you’re commissioning a one-of-one luxury sedan themed around seasonal tree flowers, that’s kind of the point.
Outside, the car is finished in a frosty white called “Crystal over Arctic White,” which feels very “new iPhone” but with more gravitas. There’s a single coachline (that thin hand-painted pinstripe down the side) ending in a tiny sakura blossom — a subtle wink to the riot of florals happening inside.
Ultimately, the Phantom Cherry Blossom isn’t about practicality or even traditional beauty — it’s about a feeling. Specifically, the fleeting, delicate joy of springtime in Japan, frozen forever in the world’s softest, most expensive time capsule.
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