The red goldof Absheron

Six generations on the same land, with the same patience. Just three threads from each flower — at dawn, by hand.

View the collection What is the saffron doing now?

Three threadsEach flower has only three stigmas. They are the saffron.
At dawnThe flower is picked by hand before sunrise. Once the day opens, the aroma is gone.
150 flowersFor one gram of dried saffron. For a kilogram — more than 150,000.

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The most expensive spice in the world is not gathered by machine. Nor can it be hurried. We have known this since 1959 — and we still separate every thread by hand.

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What is the saffron doing now?

The field is alive. See what is happening above and below the soil today.

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Threads

Stigma only. No fragments, no yellow style, no dye — every batch is tested to ISO 3632 in a European laboratory.

One gram of pure saffron threads in a gift box. The yield of some 150 flowers — enough for 30–40 servings of pilaf, or a month of daily tea.

50 AZNView

Two grams of threads in a glass vial, with a signature medallion. The hinged box makes it a gift as it is.

90 AZNView

Six grams in a cork-stoppered glass tube. The threads are whole, with no fragments — colour and aroma hold for years.

220 AZNView

Eleven grams of saffron in a box that opens like a book, with thread tweezers and a bronze medallion. The dawn harvest of over fifteen hundred flowers.

350 AZNView