Saffron – a delicate, exotic and expensive spice from far away lands.

Saffron is the most expensive spice on Earth. It is so expensive due to short annual growing seasons and to the high labor involved in growing and harvesting it. Each flower’s stigmas need to be collected by hand and there are only a few per flower.

The saffron crocus (Crocus sativus L) grows from a small rounded corm (similar to a bulb). The corms are purchased while dormant, and planted out in late summer or early fall when they rapidly burst into life with the production of small crocus flowers. This exotic spice is made from the dried red-gold stigma which forms inside the blue/purple flower. Each flower produces on average three stigmas which give three strands of saffron.

Saffron is the world’s highest priced spice and is often sold by the gram or half gram of the best quality product. The bottle for saffron needs to be unique, powerful, and eye catching. Target market is first and foremost connoisseurs of saffron spice who know how to appreciate the fine flavours and aroma of the saffron spice. People who expect more than the usual saffrons that are available in the market.