Definition of "sweet sultan" []

• An Old World annual herb, (Centaurea moschata) in the composite family, widely cultivated for its showy, fragrant, varicolored flower heads. (noun)

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• "Phlox and verbenas and sweet peas and stocks and asters and pansies and balsams; with mignonette everywhere, and sweet alyssum in spots; and sweet scabious and sweet sultan for the scent of present fragrance and the perfume of old times."