{"title":"Rope Incense","description":"\u003cp\u003eRope incense is the Nepali way of making incense: ground woods and herbs wrapped in handmade Lokta paper and twisted into a rope, in the Kathmandu Valley. Lit at one end, it burns slowly. As bundles or in a tube.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"devdar-rope-incense","title":"Devdar Lokta Rope Incense Tube","description":"\u003cp\u003eDevdar is the Himalayan cedar, Cedrus deodara. Here it is finely ground and wrapped in handmade Lokta paper as rope incense by a workshop in the Kathmandu Valley, and packed in a tube.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt opens dry and resinous, carries warm balsam in the middle and closes dry and sweet.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Maison Etherique","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45748819656887,"sku":"C052","price":35.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0538\/6629\/9575\/files\/devdar-lokta-rope-incense-box-in-hand.avif?v=1791149156"},{"product_id":"austa-suganda-rope-incense","title":"Austha Sugandha Lokta Rope Incense Tube","description":"\u003cp\u003eAustha Sugandha, Sanskrit for eight fragrances, is a classical herbal blend from a workshop in the Kathmandu Valley, led by valerian, liquorice and bagchi. Here it is wrapped in handmade Lokta paper as rope incense and packed in a tube.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt opens warm and pungent, turns earthy and sweet, and closes slightly bitter.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Maison Etherique","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45748820869303,"sku":"C054","price":35.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0538\/6629\/9575\/files\/austha-suganda-lokta-rope-incense-box-in-hand.avif?v=1791149156"},{"product_id":"krishana-tube-rope","title":"Krishna Lokta Rope Incense Bundle","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"27\" data-end=\"410\"\u003eKrishna Lokta Rope Incense Bundle \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA sandalwood-led rope incense in the traditional Nepali Lokta format, hand-rolled in the Kathmandu Valley, wrapped in handmade Lokta paper from the \u003cem\u003eDaphne papyracea\u003c\/em\u003e shrub of the Himalayan foothills. Sandalwood as the woody base; natural botanicals at the workshop's house composition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe rope burn is slower than stick incense, the wrapped construction means combustion proceeds at a controlled pace, producing a sustained low-volume aroma rather than a punctual burst. Soft and woody opening, gentle floral-resinous middle, warm-sweet close with sandalwood lingering.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe gentlest of the Kathmandu rope range, softer than the juniper-led Saang rope, earthier than nothing, less assertive than the spikenard or frankincense ropes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Maison Etherique","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45748821983415,"sku":"C057","price":69.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0538\/6629\/9575\/files\/Krishna_Nepalese_Lokta_Rope_Incense.jpg?v=1776183922"},{"product_id":"devdar-tube-rope","title":"Devdar Lokta Rope Incense Bundle","description":"\u003cp\u003eHimalayan Cedar, \u003cem\u003eCedrus deodara\u003c\/em\u003e, the deodar, finely ground and wrapped into the Lokta-paper rope format by the Kathmandu Valley workshop. One of the four true cedars (genus \u003cem\u003eCedrus\u003c\/em\u003e) and the dominant evergreen across the Himalayan belt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOpens dry and resinous; middle carries warm balsam; closes dry-sweet with the wood-grain holding. Clean, composed, soft forest-like throughout. Softer than juniper, less floral than sandalwood, more upright in register than the gentler botanical blends.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePairs with the Stupa workshop's Devdar stick tube, same species, different format. The slower rope burn allows the deodar's wood-grain register to develop more fully than the stick burn does.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"klaviyo\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Maison Etherique","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45748823130295,"sku":"C058","price":69.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0538\/6629\/9575\/files\/Devdar_Lokta_Rope_Incense_Bundle.jpg?v=1790071341"},{"product_id":"karma-tube-rope","title":"Karma Lokta Rope Incense Bundle","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Saang blend, Himalayan juniper, Himalayan cedar (\u003cem\u003eCedrus deodara\u003c\/em\u003e), sandalwood, and warm spices, finely ground and wrapped into the Lokta-paper rope format by the Kathmandu workshop. The most compositionally complex rope in the cluster: a layered, forest-resinous, gently spiced aromatic register that reads as a vertical traverse of the Himalayan landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOpens with bright juniper-evergreen; middle carries cedar and sandalwood layered with warm spices; closes warm-resinous with a spiced edge. More room-presence than the single-species ropes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShares the Saang material with the Dorjee stick tube in the wider Stupa range, same blend, different format, different burn length.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"klaviyo\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Maison Etherique","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45748823228599,"sku":"C059","price":69.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0538\/6629\/9575\/files\/Karma_Lokta_Rope_Incense_Bundle.jpg?v=1790246333"},{"product_id":"austa-suganda-bundle-rope","title":"Austa Suganda Lokta Rope Incense Bundle","description":"\u003cp\u003eAusta Suganda, the transliterated Sanskrit \u003cem\u003eaṣṭa sugandha\u003c\/em\u003e, literally \"eight fragrances.\" The Kathmandu workshop's classical herbal blend wrapped into the Lokta-paper rope format. Three named anchor materials: valerian (likely \u003cem\u003eValeriana jatamansi\u003c\/em\u003e, the Indian valerian), liquorice (\u003cem\u003eGlycyrrhiza glabra\u003c\/em\u003e), and bagchi (\u003cem\u003ePsoralea corylifolia\u003c\/em\u003e, the traditional South Asian medicinal plant).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOpens with warm-pungent bagchi; middle carries valerian's earthy-musky depth layered with liquorice's sweet-resinous lift; closes layered, slightly bitter, slightly sweet, longer-tail than the woody or resin-led ropes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe most compositionally complex rope in the cluster. The three named anchors represent a distinctly Himalayan and South Asian botanical profile.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Maison Etherique","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45748826865847,"sku":"C060","price":69.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0538\/6629\/9575\/files\/Austa_Suganda_Lokta_Rope_Incense_Bundle.jpg?v=1790246565"},{"product_id":"na-swa-bundle-rope","title":"Na Swa Lokta Rope Incense Bundle","description":"\u003cp\u003eSpikenard, \u003cem\u003eNardostachys jatamansi\u003c\/em\u003e, the famous \"nard\" of ancient Mediterranean trade, finely ground into the Lokta-paper rope format by the Kathmandu workshop. A high-altitude Himalayan rhizome (3,000 to 5,000 metres) with one of the most distinctive aromatic profiles in the wider South Asian tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDeep, earthy, musky-herbal. Opens woody-earthy; the middle carries the spikenard's characteristic slightly musky, slightly camphorous, deeply herbal register; the close holds the herbal note as a long tail. Substantially deeper and more distinctive than the floral, woody, or resin-led ropes in the cluster.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReferences to nard appear in Theophrastus, Dioscorides, and Pliny, the Himalayas-to-Mediterranean spikenard trade is one of the oldest documented long-distance aromatic trades, running for at least two thousand years.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Maison Etherique","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45748826931383,"sku":"C061","price":69.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0538\/6629\/9575\/files\/Na_Swa_Lokta_Rope_Incense_Bundle.jpg?v=1790246928"},{"product_id":"frankincense-bundle-rope","title":"Frankincense Lokta Rope Incense Bundle","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrankincense in the Lokta-paper rope format: finely ground\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBoswellia\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eresin combined with Himalayan botanicals and wrapped in Lokta paper by the Kathmandu workshop. The great Mediterranean and Arabian aromatic resin in a Nepali rope adaptation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOpens resinous-citric, bright and pine-edged. The middle minutes settle into the warm balsamic-resinous register that distinguishes frankincense from other resins. The close is mild and grounding with a faint sweet wood-resin tail.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLess assertive than burning\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBoswellia\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eresin directly on charcoal but more sustained: the rope format spreads the resin character across a longer slow burn. Useful for households that prefer the rope format over the more intense charcoal session.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"klaviyo\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Maison Etherique","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45748827029687,"sku":"C062","price":69.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0538\/6629\/9575\/files\/Frankincense_Lokta_Rope_Incense_Bundle.jpg?v=1790246672"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.maisonetherique.com\/collections\/rope-incense.oembed","provider":"Maison Éthérique","version":"1.0","type":"link"}