Why don't you sell powdered saffron?

Because powder is the form in which adulteration is easiest and hardest to detect. Whole stigmas can be assessed visually and by float test; powder cannot. If you need powder, we would rather you grind whole stigma yourself than buy it pre-ground from anyone.

Plate I (Frontispiece).

1. Olive, as Olea Europea (accepted spelling O. europaea)
2. Ginger plant, as Amomum zingiber (modern Zingiber officinale)
3. Black pepper, Piper nigrum
4. Cardamom plant, Ele — Reference photograph of the material, not of a specific lot. Rev. Wiliam Bingley, Public domain · 8 photographs

SKU: SAFFRON-001
Material: Aromatic Flower
Origin: Morocco
Extraction: Hand-picked and dried
Plant part: Stigma
Lots held: 1

SaffronSample data

Moroccan Saffron

Crocus sativus(Iridaceae)

AvailableMorocco1.14 kg unreserved

COA AvailableOrigin VerifiedTraceableSample AvailableBulk AvailableSeasonalCultivated

Hand-picked Crocus sativus stigmas from the Taliouine region — leathery, honeyed and metallic.

25 g

$285.00

$11.40 / g

MOQ

1 g

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Volume pricing

Quantity	Per g
1–25 g	$14.00
25+ g	$11.40

Saffron stigmas hand-picked and dried, from the Taliouine region of southern Morocco. Roughly 150,000 flowers are required per kilogram of dried stigma, all picked by hand in a season lasting a few weeks.

In perfumery, saffron contributes a leathery, honeyed, faintly medicinal warmth with a distinctive metallic edge — quite different from its culinary reading. It is central to traditional attar and mukhallat work.

Supplied as whole dried stigmas. Powdered saffron is not offered, because powder is the form in which adulteration is easiest and hardest to detect.

Declared origin: Morocco
Additional origins: Not recorded
Harvest season: Autumn, roughly three weeks
Harvest year: 2025
Traceability: Not recorded

Lots

MAR-SAF-2025-001Origin verified

Available

Origin: Morocco
Harvest: 2025
Available: 1,140 g
Testing: Completed

Trace this lot

Harvest / collectionHarvest · 10 May 2025
Raw material collected at declared origin during the 2025 season.
Hand-picked and driedProcessing · 11 Jun 2025
Hand-picked and dried carried out at origin. Batch identified as MAR-SAF-2025-001.
Intake and identificationIntake · 12 Jul 2025
Batch received, weighed and assigned a lot reference against the supplier declaration.
Analytical testing completedTesting · 13 Jul 2025
Analysis completed for this lot. Reports are released per the documentation panel.
Origin declaration verifiedDocumentation · 14 Aug 2025
Supplier origin declaration checked against shipping and batch documentation.

Supplier and producer identity is held internally and is not published. Disclosure to a buyer of record is handled case by case.

Leathery and honeyed with a hay-like dryness, a faint medicinal bitterness and a characteristic metallic edge. Powerful at very low inclusion.

Leathery86

Honeyed74

Medicinal58

Spicy66

Earthy48

Sweet44

Relative prominence of each descriptor, recorded on evaluation. Indicative only; not an analytical measurement.

Botanical name: Crocus sativus
Botanical family: Iridaceae
Common name: Not recorded
Material type: Aromatic Flower
Plant part: Stigma
Extraction method: Hand-picked and dried
Extraction technology: Not recorded
Colour: Deep red with orange styles
Appearance: Whole dried stigmas
INCI name: Not recorded
CAS number: Not recorded
EINECS: Not recorded
HS code: 0910.20
CITES status: Not CITES-listed
REACH: Not recorded
Shelf life: 36 months
Storage: Store sealed, cool, dry and in complete darkness. Light exposure degrades crocin and the colour with it.
Allergens: Not recorded
Regulatory notes: Supplied as an aromatic raw material for fragrance and technical evaluation. Nothing here is a representation that this material is supplied as, or approved as, a food ingredient.

Natural materials vary by harvest, season and lot. Specifications describe the referenced lot and are not a guarantee for future batches.

Attar Production

Traditional attar and mukhallat compounding.

Fine Fragrance

Alcoholic fine fragrance, extrait and eau de parfum formulation.

Incense & Bakhoor

Incense, bakhoor, joss and traditional burning preparations.

2 documents on file · 1 available on request

COACertificate of Analysis — MAR-SAF-2025-001
Crocin, picrocrocin and safranal values for the referenced lot.
Documentation available upon request
OriginCertificate of Origin
Documentation available upon request
SDSSafety Data Sheet
Documentation available upon request

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No sustainability information has been recorded for this material. We do not publish a general claim in its place.

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Why don't you sell powdered saffron?: Because powder is the form in which adulteration is easiest and hardest to detect. Whole stigmas can be assessed visually and by float test; powder cannot. If you need powder, we would rather you grind whole stigma yourself than buy it pre-ground from anyone.

Reference photographs

Rev. Wiliam Bingley, Public domain
Rawpixel, CC BY-SA 4.0
Zeynel Cebeci, CC BY-SA 4.0
Ulaisaeva, CC BY-SA 4.0
Brandt, Wilhelm; Gürke, M.; Köhler, F. E.; Pabst, G.; Schellenberg, G.; Vogtherr, Max., Public domain
Safa.daneshvar, CC BY-SA 3.0
HeiWu, CC BY-SA 3.0
Franz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen, Public domain