Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book II The use of crowns and ointments is not necessary for us; for it impels to pleasures and indulgences, especially on the approach of night. I know that the woman brought to the sacred supper "an alabaster box of ointment,"[152] Tertullian A Treatise on the Soul or that the fragrance of the ointment which He afterwards smelled was different from that which He accepted for His burial;[126]