The Chinese Perfume Plant originates from Cambodia, Southeast China, Hainan, Laos, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam. In Indonesia, this plant is distributed in several regions, including Sumatra, Kalimantan, Java, Sulawesi, Bali, and Flores. It is commonly cultivated as an ornamental plant, which can be grown as bonsai, yard plant, or hedge plant. Furthermore, the community also utilizes this plant as a vegetable and spice, a source of wood, a fragrance agent, a botanical pesticide, and a medicinal plant. In the Philippines, Indonesia, and China, this plant has long been used in traditional medicine, for example, to treat excessive menstruation. Dried flowers are used to impart aroma to tea, and as a fragrance for clothes and cigarettes. The Chinese Perfume Plant has been classified as a 'Near Threatened' species on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (2011).

The Chinese Perfume Plant can grow in lowlands up to highlands at an altitude of 10–1,300 meters above sea level (m.a.s.l.). This plant is usually found growing in shrubland in mountainous areas, evergreen forests, along the coast, and often thrives in clay soil. The preferred environment is an open area that receives full or partial sunlight.

• Root: Taproot, dirty yellow color.

• Stem: Cylindrical shape, rough bark surface, woody, highly branched, the petiole is speckled with black spots.

• Leaves: Compound leaf, alternately arranged, green color, composed of 3–7 leaflets, ovate shape, wider at the tip than the base, smooth leaf margin, pinnate venation, smooth and shiny surface, short-stalked (short petiole).

• Flower: Compound inflorescence, numerous, yellow color, fragrant. The inflorescence is a thyrse (a compound cyme-like raceme), located in the leaf axils. Male and female flowers occur on separate individuals (dioecious).

• Fruit: Ovate or subglobose shape, about 12 mm long, generally red color, containing 1–3 seeds in one chamber.

• Seed: Surrounded by fleshy tissue (aril), round shape, small size.

• Propagation: Done generatively (seeds) and vegetatively (stem cuttings).

Excessive menstruation, cough, vertigo, eases childbirth (parturifacient), lowers fever, treats seizures, rheumatism, gonorrhea (kencing nanah), skin diseases, itching (external remedy), eliminates body odor. It has antipyretic activity.

Triterpenoids (aglaiol, aglaiondiol, aglaitriol, and aglaione), alkaloids (odorine and odorinol), essential oils (hendecane, linalool, decyladehyde, copaene, β-caryophyllend, β-humulene, β-elemene, β-selinene, humuladienone, humulene epoxide Ⅰ, tridecanic acid methyl ester, β-humulene-7-ol, β-humu-lene-7-ol acetate, juniper camphor, heptadecane, khusol acetate, octadecane, nonadecane, eicosane, heneicosane, docosane), saponins, flavonoids, tannins.