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MAISON PIRUZ
MAISON PIRUZ
A plain oak table prepared for work: raw linen laid, brass tweezers placed parallel, a small precision scale at the edge, the morning's delivery resting in dark trays; the room is quiet, the light north-facing.

LA MAISON — CHAPTER III

The Craft of Selection

What the field gives, the table judges.

The selection table at rest after the work: sheets of pale paper laid on dark oak, a small gathering of crimson saffron threads, a folded linen cloth, the afternoon's light falling quietly across the surface.
The atelier — Paris, workroom to be confirmed.

THE ATELIER

A table, linen, and light

The selection table is the house's true address. Every lot the maison receives crosses it in its entirety — no thread enters a jar unexamined, and no jar leaves the room unsigned.

The tools are deliberately few: a pair of brass tweezers, a small precision scale, a length of raw linen, and eyes trained by the previous harvest. The rest is time — an afternoon set aside for one tray, and then another.

A single stigma held in brass tweezers at the moment of judgment: a deep crimson thread shading to pale yellow at its base, the cutting point legible at the colour's turn.
Negin — the gem; Super Negin, the finest cut.

THE CUT

Where crimson becomes grade

Each stigma is trimmed precisely where its crimson turns to yellow. Cut low, and the pale style's dead weight remains in the jar — bulk without perfume. Cut well, and what remains is Negin — the gem: whole, deep-red, fully trimmed.

The finest cut of all is Super Negin — long, unbroken, entirely crimson, entirely free of the style. Grade is not a marketing tier; it is the record of a gesture. The house buys, and the house pours, only Super Negin.

Chosen Twice

Selected in the field.Selected again at our table.Every thread, chosen twice.

Threads on ivory linen, divided by hand: a larger group set aside toward one side of the frame, a smaller group gathered on the other — the standard made visible in what is refused.
The chosen and the set-aside — both in frame.

THE SECOND SELECTION

Grade I, judged again

The house buys only Grade I Super Negin. And then, at its own table, the house selects again — thread by thread, by hand — from what has already passed a first judgment in Khorasan.

What is set aside would be sold proudly elsewhere. What remains is what fills the jars of Maison Piruz — the standard made visible not by what enters, but by what is refused.

THE LABORATORY

The Laboratory

Every lot
Independently analysed
ISO 3632
Crocin · Safranal · Picrocrocin
The values
Travel with the jar

We do not grade our own work unexamined. The laboratory reads what the table has chosen — and we publish what it finds.

Independent partner — laboratory name to be confirmed.

Trace a Lot

A black-lidded apothecary jar of finished saffron on a plain surface, the lot number applied at the base; the room's light low and even, the object at rest.
The seal — procedure to be confirmed.

THE SEAL

Glass, darkness, and a number

The chosen threads are sealed the same day: glass against air, darkness against light. Nothing is added, nothing is powdered, nothing is blended — the flower's own work is the entire contents of the jar.

A lot number is applied to the base, binding the jar to its harvest and to its independent analysis. The object the visitor holds is the day at the table, closed and dated.

The house, described

What remains is the saffron itself — and the school of it, for those who want the depth.

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Grading & ISO 3632