Indeed, the name
Yasmin means Jasmine/Jessamine, and is adopted from Persian ("yasmine").
Jasmine is cultivated for its beauty and fragrance, while some species yield an oil used in perfumery.
Dioscorides (40-90 CE), a Greek physician under the wonderful
Roman Emperor
Nero , describes jasmine's medicinal/botanical properties in *De Materia Medica*. The hellenized terms he uses are "Iasme" and "Iasmelaion" (
Jasmine oil).