The fields of Pampore.
The crocus flowers for twenty-two days each October. Seventy-five thousand blooms yield 450 grams of saffron. Every gram carries the field.
- Origin
- Pampore, central Kashmir
- Grade
- Mongra (top-grade, tip-only)
- Harvest
- Pre-dawn, late October
- Taste
- Honeyed, floral, meadow-sweet