03 / Origin
Grown where it has
always been grown.
Where
Khorasan, Iran.
Iran produces roughly 88% of the world's saffron, and the heart of that production sits in Razavi and South Khorasan — the cities of Torbat Heydarieh, Qaen and Birjand. Cold winters, hot dry summers and calcareous soil produce stigmas with crocin levels that no other region matches.
We work with eighteen cooperative farms across these regions. Every kilo we ship is traceable to a specific harvest, a specific lot, and a specific village.
From flower to tin.
01
Harvest
Crocuses are picked by hand at dawn during the 3-week October–November window, before sun degrades the stigmas.
02
Separation
Each flower is opened the same day; the three crimson stigmas are pulled by hand from the bulb.
03
Drying
Stigmas are dried within 72 hours under controlled low heat to lock in crocin, safranal and picrocrocin.
04
Lab + grading
Every lot is tested to ISO 3632:2011, graded Super Negin or Sargol, and sealed.
150,000
Flowers per kilo of dried saffron
370 hrs
Manual labor per export kilo
18
Cooperative farms in our network