History & Culture. Strictly speaking, a cloister is a square or quadrilateral enclosure, surrounded by covered walkways. Cloisters are sometimes attached to a college and more often to a cathedral, but are usually associated with monasteries and convents.
Scent plays an important role in lupine communications. A wolf is capable of smelling the details of an odor with a dozen times more accurately than a domestic canine, and probably a hundred times more accurately than a human being.cent plays an important role in lupine communications. A wolf is capable of smelling the details of an odor with a dozen times more accurately than a domestic canine, and probably a hundred times more accurately than a human being.
Spikenard has a profound and complex aroma, a combination sweet/spicy/musky, a very organic earthy scent. The root from which the finest fragrance is obtained is tufted and sort of hairy in appearance; at one time it was surmised that spikenard was an animal's tail.pikenard has a profound and complex aroma, a combination sweet/spicy/musky, a very organic earthy scent. The root from which the finest fragrance is obtained is tufted and sort of hairy in appearance; at one time it was surmised that spikenard was an animal's tail.