It's tea olive, the glossy-leaved shrub known by the scientific name Osmanthus fragrans. Commonly, you can call the plant tea olive or sweet olive, as both names nod to the sweet scent emitted by ...

Does this sweet smell attract bees and butterflies? Not necessarily. This smell rather repels many insects, according to “Kaguwashiki Shokubutsu-tachi no Himitsu” (Secrets of fragrant plants ...