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I don’t doubt you’re more knowledgeable than me but if you can’t smell ”any sent” from 200+ “fragrant roses” varieties maybe the problem is to look elsewhere ? Maybe your odorat or your expectations ?

I do smell perfume from certain roses trees as well as does my GF and the roses gardener in this beautiful place [0]. Don’t think smelling roses perfume is a rare condition. Also you probably already know that food additives and ambiance perfumes smells roses like a banana candy taste banana.

I wish you success in your search.

[0] https://albert-kahn.hauts-de-seine.fr/en/collections/present...

1 comments

Marketing can call a rose "fragrant" all it wants. That doesn't make it so.

I have bought almost every kind of varietal I can lay my hands on in an attempt to find roses with scent for my wife's birthday for 20+ years now. When I started doing this, it was easy to find varietals with scent--some of them would pump the whole house full of it they were so strong. In the last 5 years, even if I buy a scattering of varietals (generally I will buy 4-6 dozens in an attempt to find one), I have come up empty twice.

If, however, I go to something like the Del Mar fair and examine the roses which are called "fragrant", they actually are.

I'll leave the conclusions to you.