'Fragrant' in the Bible
“Take for yourself the best spices: five hundred shekels of liquid myrrh, half as much—two hundred and fifty—of sweet-scented cinnamon, and two hundred and fifty of fragrant cane,
and [olive] oil for the lighting, and balsam for the anointing oil, and for the fragrant incense,
and the altar of incense and its carrying poles, the anointing oil and the fragrant incense, the screen (curtain) for the doorway at the entrance of the tabernacle;
and spice and [olive] oil for the light and for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense.
He also made the holy anointing oil and the pure, fragrant incense of spices, the work of a perfumer.
the golden altar [of incense], the anointing oil and the fragrant incense, and the [hanging] veil for the doorway of the tent;
“The responsibility of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, is the oil for the light, the fragrant incense, the continual grain offering, and the anointing oil—the responsibility of all the tabernacle and everything that is in it, with the sanctuary and its furnishings.”
All Your garments are fragrant with myrrh, aloes and cassia;From ivory palaces stringed instruments have made You glad.
“The aroma of your oils is fragrant and pleasing;Your name is perfume poured out;Therefore the maidens love you.
“Draw me away with you and let us run together!Let the king bring me into his chambers.”
“My beloved is to me a cluster of henna flowersIn the [fragrant] vineyards of Engedi.”
(The Shulammite Bride)“What is this coming up from the wildernessLike [stately] pillars of smokePerfumed with myrrh and frankincense,With all the fragrant powders of the merchant?”
But I have received everything in full and more; I am amply supplied, having received from Epaphroditus the gifts you sent me. They are the fragrant aroma of an offering, an acceptable sacrifice which God welcomes and in which He delights.
And when He had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb (Christ), each one holding a harp and golden bowls full of fragrant incense, which are the prayers of the saints (God’s people).
Another angel came and stood at the altar. He had a golden censer, and much incense was given to him, so that he might add it to the prayers of all the saints (God’s people) on the golden altar in front of the throne.