10_10.............Scent: All generous odors, Saffron

Known as the most expensive spice in the world at one time in the U.S. the price was set to the equivalent of gold.

Saffron is a flower that has been cultivated for over 3000 years for it's aromatic and medicinal uses in perfumes, ointments, potpourris, and baths not to mention it was also used as

dye for cloths and fabrics that existed at the time.

The word itself derives from the Arabic word meaning yellow as well as similar words from separate cultures that utilized the substance and they all sound in some way like

Saffron.

Do not take in large doses as Saffron has a deadly narcotic effect and will probably kill you. The plant can tolerate very cold temperatures but is mostly cultivated in Spain,

Turkey, Greece, Morroco, Iran, and India but it can actually be grown in any climate and need to be replanted each year.

It shows on frescos and in artwork from the times and was used by Cleopatra for bathing in to enhance lovemaking and appears in one of the songs of Solomon (iv.14 named as

Karcom) and also known as Krokos, Krocus and

There are a variety of types of Saffron that grow in different regions (Mediterranean) around the world and some let off a more pungent odor as others are more effective as a dye

for fabric (yellow-orange and golden).

There are cave drawings found with the yellow dye used on cave paintings that date back 15000 years.

The chemical makeup of Saffron makes the plant soluble in both water and oil and grow from corms which look like bulbs of other plants but a corm has different characteristics

than a bulb however the two are often confused as they have a similar appearance and are planted in similar ways.

It makes me wonder why you would want to be tainted yellow for sex but then I have never experimented with it.