Custodians of Arabian houses of essence.

Nabtah is a small Dubai house. We hold the contracts, the licences, the customs paperwork and the day-to-day care that let our flagship brand — Makan Al-Luban — be exactly itself. Premium Omani frankincense. Raw honey. Bukhoor. Heritage perfumery.

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Meydan Free ZoneDubai · UAEEst. 2024Licence 2416908.01TRN 104728604000003

Custodianship

We are the custodian. We are not the brand.

Nabtah for Business is the Dubai-licensed entity that holds the rights, contracts, payments, taxes and customs paperwork that let our flagship brand — Makan Al-Luban — be exactly itself.

The brand is what the customer sees in the bottle, on the shelf, on the phone. The house is what makes it possible — the office, the bank account, the import permits, the tax filings, the conversations with regulators in three languages.

The name we chose for the house, نبتة (nabtah), is the Arabic word for a sprout — something newly grown. A small word for a slow practice.

The house principles

Four tenets we publish so we cannot quietly forget them.

01
Slowness
Goods that take their time.
Real frankincense is bled from a tree, dried in shade, sorted by hand. We refuse to rush the things our customers love.
02
Origin
Closer to the source.
We buy directly from harvesters in Dhofar and from honey-keepers in the Empty Quarter. Fewer hands. Fewer stories that aren’t the goods’ own.
03
Stewardship
A house, not a brand.
Nabtah does not sell a single bottle. We hold and steward the brand that does — Makan Al-Luban — so the merchants in the field, the perfumers, and the chemists can do their work.
04
Service
A small office in Meydan.
For trade, hospitality, gifting, regulators and customs — there is a single door in Dubai, and we answer it.

The brand

Makan Al-Luban

The single brand under our stewardship. A house of Omani frankincense, raw single-origin honey, bukhoor and heritage skincare — sourced direct, finished in-house, shipped across the Gulf.

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