Saffronology is the science of saffron on production, processing, marketing, quality control, tradition medicinal use, novel medicinal and emerging use and all other aspects of this valuable spice.
Saffron in Persian Poems; cited in: "Grami, B. 2008. Flowers and Plants in a Thousand Years of the Persian Poetry (similes and metaphors). Sokhan Pub. PDF (699 kb)