Silene italica is a species of plant native to Southern Europe and parts of Asia.

[3] Silene is the feminine form of Silenus, an Ancient Greek woodland deity who was the companion and tutor to the wine god Dionysus.

[11] The study also found that chemical composition of S. Italica’s floral scent is Plants of the World Online says is native to places like Albania, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Italy, Spain, Iran, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Ukraine, Yugoslavia, Palestine, Turkmenistan, Romania, and France and that it is present in Corsica, Denmark, Great Britain, and Germany but not native.

[4] But the Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International says that it was introduced to Belgium with it first being reported in 1918 and is also present in Austria and Slovakia.

[10] In Britain, it naturally occurs on chalky roadside banks and chalk quarries between Dartford and Greenhithe.