The Veela seem to have the ability to change between two states. In their normal state, they appear to be women, with skin that shines moon-bright and white-gold hair that fans out behind them without wind. They are incredibly beautiful, though inhumanly so, but when they dance, that apparent inhumanity no longer matters.
In Western countries, the average retail price in 1974 was $1,000 per pound, or US$2,200 per kilogram. In February 2013, a retail bottle containing 0.06 ounces could be purchased for $16.26 or the equivalent of $4,336 per pound or as little as about $2,000/pound in larger quantities.oughly 150 flowers together yield 1 g (0.035 oz) of dry saffron threads; to produce 12 g (0.42 oz) of dried saffron (or 72 g (2.5 oz) moist and freshly harvested), 1 kg (2.2 lb) of flowers are needed; 1 lb (0.45 kg) yields 0.2 oz (5.7 g) of dried saffron.
The most delicately flavored of all spices. Adds golden color and a wonderful flavor to rice dishes, soups, etc. The most expensive of all spices, saffron fortunately needs to be used only in very small quantities. As a culinary herb, it is used for food coloring. True saffron is perhaps the most expensive of all plant products because of the labor involved in harvesting and it takes 3 acres of flowers to produce 1 lb. of saffron. It retails for about $40 an ounce! For this reason few dealers stock this botanical.