You know why N. alata used to be called jasmine tobacco, and all its faults fall away.

Nicotiana or Jasmine Tobacco (Nicotiana alata)

It is called Winged Tobacco, Jasmine Tobacco, tanbaku, and sometimes Persian Tobacco, though the latter name is also used for Nicotiana persica.

She whispered, close to Xanthe's cheek and the younger girl sniffed the sweet tobacco on her breath.

"What sweet tobacco," said the twins.

The smoke burned in his chest, behind his eyes, and for an instant he tasted the bitter smoke of cannon fire, not sweet tobacco.

You can fill a box with mint humbugs, sherbet pips, sweet tobacco and clotted-cream fudge for a few pounds.

The garden has many other varieties of flowers it had in Tchaikovsky's time: roses, begonias, gillyflowers, phloxes, and sweet tobacco.

Roland rummaged through his purse for his tobacco pouch, found it, and built himself a cigarette with Callahan's fresh, sweet tobacco.

He did not know that my mother was out on the lawn with his mother or that I was watching him sit in his window and smell their sweet tobacco.

If he happened to light up his old pipe and smoke by the fireside, the smell of sweet tobacco made Sadie feel a bit light-headed, took the edge off her deepest fears.

Göteborgs Rapé was made from selected hand-ripped tobacco giving the snus "... a mild and sweet tobacco flavor with tones of juniper berry and fresh herbs".

On warm evenings the air is flavored with sweet tobacco, as men, young and old, gather outside Middle Eastern cafes to smoke hookahs and drink tiny cups of thick coffee.

It was a room of ancient waxed timbers and leather smoothed from years of use, where, if you concentrated, you could still smell a hint of the sweet tobacco King Magnus had favored.

As the British Royal Navy came to rule Atlantic seas, England increasingly profited from its colonies and eagerly consumed the fruits of their labors - sweet tobacco from Virginia, sugar and coffee from the Caribbean.

In 1611, Rolfe is credited with being the first to commercially cultivate Nicotiana tabacum tobacco plants in North America; export of this sweeter tobacco beginning in 1612 helped turn the Virginia Colony into a profitable venture.

Nicotiana alata - Winged Tobacco, Jasmine Tobacco, Tanbaku (Persian)

It is called Winged Tobacco, Jasmine Tobacco, tanbaku, and sometimes Persian Tobacco, though the latter name is also used for Nicotiana persica.

Nicotiana alata - Winged Tobacco, Jasmine Tobacco, Tanbaku (Persian)

It is called Winged Tobacco, Jasmine Tobacco, tanbaku, and sometimes Persian Tobacco, though the latter name is also used for Nicotiana persica.

It is the source of Persian Tobacco made in ITC monopoly.

Nicotiana alata is also sometimes called Persian Tobacco; this is mainly an ornamental plant however, grown for its pretty flowers and rarely for narghila tobacco.

"Persian tobacco" is for example mentioned in the Mark Twain's book Innocents Abroad, Chapter XXXIV.

In essence the concession not only violated the long-established relationship between Persian tobacco producers and tobacco sellers, but it also threatened the job security of a significant portion of the population.

It is called Winged Tobacco, Jasmine Tobacco, tanbaku, and sometimes Persian Tobacco, though the latter name is also used for Nicotiana persica.

At the time the Persian tobacco industry employed over 200,000 people and therefore the concession represented a major blow to Persian farmers and bazaaris whose livelihoods were largely dependent on the lucrative tobacco business.

Another evening performer is the tobacco plant (Nicotiana alata).

Nicotiana alata (I)

Nicotiana or Jasmine Tobacco (Nicotiana alata)

There's also a light green nicotiana from Chile, N. Langsorfii, which has the same offbeat appeal, but it's not fragrant, so I'm growing the pure white Nicotiana alata, to keep my nose happy.

You'd never know it from the modern cultivars, which lost fragrance when they were bred to stay open during the day, but old-fashioned flowering tobacco (Nicotiana alata) has a very strong night perfume, and so does its much taller, architecturally splendid cousin, N. sylvestris.