... flask) and poured out all the costly perfume. The magic of nard, and the pleasure of this perfume, is made clear in this phrase from John 12:3 – "And the house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment." Spikenard was the favorite perfume of antiquity. It got its name from ... this shampoo to a lather on my head, I bathe my being in memories of wonderful times with my oldest son at Newcomb Hollow Beach near South Wellfleet, Cape Cod. I used to use coconut-scented suntan oil to protect his baby skin from ...