The Nard mentioned in Song of Songs    I have omitted from the main article a reference to nard in Song of Songs  and where the Aramaic Targum there writes and they worshipped the golden calf making foul their actions so that a bad name went forth unto them in the world Whereas before that episode their good scent imbued the world but afterwards they stank like nard whose smell is very bad I am at a loss as to what this nard might have been Could it have been our regular spikenard and does spikenard have a vey bad smell when laid to the hot coals Any answers