Before delving into the differences of natural pearls and cultured pearls, it is important to put forth that both these pearls are real pearls and are produced by an oyster or mollusk, the catch only lies in the way they are produced. The naturally occurring pearls take years to perfectly form and tediously long to be fetched out of the ocean to be finally wrapped around your glorious neck because the natural pearl is formed when an irritant makes its way into an oyster’s soft tissue muscle accidentally causing it to produce layers of secretions which slowly develops into a natural pearl. The only contrast between natural and cultured pearls is that the cultured pearls are grown on farms and the stimulation through the irritant is not an accidental occurrence rather through human intervention. This does not change the properties of the pearl and both natural and cultured pearls remain “real pearls”.