Tanjore Special — Halmaddi · Herbs · Fine Fragrance
Born in the hands of artisans in a home-based cottage industry, each cone is pressed using halmaddi — the ancient, honey-like resin that has bound India's finest incense for centuries — blended with sacred incense herbs and fine fragrance. Light one, close your eyes, and find yourself at the threshold of a great Chola temple, the air alive with the divine.
"The great Chola temples of Tanjore were not merely places of worship — they were living ecosystems of art, music, dance, and fragrance. Incense was the invisible architecture of devotion."
Halmaddi — known also as mattipal — is a natural, semi-liquid resin extracted from the Ailanthus Malabarica tree. For centuries it has been the binding soul of India's finest incense, prized for its ability to hold aromatic material together without heat, and to release fragrance slowly and completely as the cone burns. Combined with hand-gathered incense herbs and fine fragrance, it creates a cone that is softer to the touch, slower to burn, and richer in aroma than anything machine-made could produce.
"The aroma of these cones is truly magical — it transports you to the erstwhile Chola dynasty of temples and galore, when the air itself was an offering to the divine."
Sri Parmeshwari — the divine mother, the goddess who holds both creation and grace — is the presiding spirit of this cone. The saffron-orange box, adorned with her golden form and the ornate Celtic-inspired cartouche of the brand, speaks of devotion before you even lift the lid.
Inside, ten hand-pressed cones of halmaddi, temple herbs and fine fragrance await. When lit, the fragrance that rises is warm, sacred and deeply feminine — a blend that would not be out of place in the inner sanctum of the Brihadeeswarar, where Parvati herself presides alongside the great Shiva linga of Tanjore.
Sri Ranga — Lord Ranganatha, the reclining Vishnu of the great Srirangam temple near Tanjore — is one of the most revered deities in all of South India. His emerald-green box, crowned with the gilded name cartouche and his magnificent form in gold and coral, is a product of reverence as much as craft.
The fragrance pressed into these ten cones is cool, serene and deeply meditative — befitting a deity who rests on the cosmic serpent Adishesha, overseeing creation in a state of divine repose. Light one in the evening, and feel the Cauvery delta breeze of Srirangam move through your room.
Both variants are made using the same artisan process — hand-pressed with halmaddi, incense herbs and fine fragrance in a home-based cottage industry. 10 cones per box.
Both variants are available to retailers, temples, wellness stores, gift shops and export buyers. Contact our B2B team to discuss quantities, packaging and custom fragrance options for the divine cones range.