`  == The ``Nard`` mentioned in Song of Songs 1:12 ==  I have omitted from the main article a reference to ``nard`` in Song of Songs 1:12, 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?   `