PRG-01 · Super Negin · The house standard
Saffron Threads
Whole crimson stigmas, cut above the pale style — the grade the trade calls Super Negin, and the reason a pinch is enough. Picked before sunrise, dried the same day, tasted against lots from the world's premier saffron regions, and bottled only if it clears Category I. Sealed in clear glass under crimson wax, because the grade should be visible before you pay for it — the length of the thread, the depth of the red, whether it is all stigma. Light is still the enemy of everything you're paying for; that is what the cupboard is for.
In stockSKU PRG-SAF-TH-02G
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- ISO 3632 · Category IThe house selection standard
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- Grade
- SUPER NEGIN — all stigma, no style
- Selection
- Category I only — the house standard
- Origin
- Disclosed per lot — on the certificate
- Harvest
- 2026
- Grading
- ISO 3632 — certificate published per harvest lot
- In the box
- The water-test card — spare threads + instructions
How to use it
Never straight from the jar into the pot. Steep 10–15 threads in two tablespoons of warm — not boiling — water, milk or stock for twenty minutes, then add liquid and threads together. One steep colours a family-size rice dish; the perfume arrives ten minutes later, the colour deepens for an hour.
Storage
Keep it in its glass, lid tight, in a cool cupboard — never the fridge, never a windowsill. The glass is clear, which is how you see what you own, so the cupboard is what keeps the light off it. Light bleaches crocin, the compound you paid for. Properly kept, the threads hold their strength past two years; ours carry the harvest year so you never have to guess.
Delivery
Collect from the flagship boutique at Nation Towers Mall, Abu Dhabi — collection is always free. Delivery anywhere in the UAE is arranged in the WhatsApp conversation, and we agree the timing with you before the order leaves us.
Every jar is an invitation: run the water test on your own kitchen counter. Real saffron gives up its gold slowly and stays red. Here's how to read it →
Read the label, anywhere