Har Sringar Attar offered has a great demand for its sweet smell. Further, it also has great therapeutic usages. Its medicinal use include meeting the treatment needs of malaria, jaundice, mental retardation, abdomen disorder, paralysis and other ailments.

Har singar should not be confused with the West Indian shrub Cestrum nocturnum, also called queen of the night. Nyctanthes arbortristis literally means, night-blooming sad tree. Grows as large shrub or small tree depending on how it is trained. The large attractive leaves are rough and hairy. The sweet scented flowers are small, attractive with white petals and an orange-red tube in center and bloom profusely, opening at night and drop off in the morning, thus making a carpet of flowers in the morning