​The flowers, besides being very useful and attractive to bees, have supplied a perfume, and a water distilled from them has been used for flavouring.
The dried plant has been employed to scent snuff and smoking tobacco and may be laid among linen for the same purpose as lavender. When packed with furs, Melilot is said to act like camphor and preserve them from moths, besides imparting a pleasant fragrance.

Melilot
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(Melilotus officinalis)

Best treated as a biennial. Attains 6-7 feet in good
garden soil in a sheltered situation. Sow seed in March
and thin to at least 18 inches apart. Melilot transplants easily.

All species of Melilot, when in flower, have a peculiar sweet odour, which by drying be comes stronger and more agreeable, somewhat like that of the Tonka bean, (Melilot is the best natural replacement for Coumarin; Chanel 5's synthetic compound)

The herb has aromatic, emollient and carminative properties.
Applied as a plaster, or in ointment, or as a fomentation, it is an old-fashioned country remedy for the relief of abdominal and rheumatic pains. It relieves flatulence and in modern herbal practice is taken internally for this purpose. It is also good for inflammation of the eye.