Becuase you have disease resistance attached, I would say Constance Spry, but you already have it, I think.
Austins with myrrh fragrance will not qualify for resistance, as well as the rose with the best myrrh fragrance in my opinion -Fragrant Masterpiece (Clement).
I think Alba Belle Amour is always mentioned like the one with myrrh fragrance, but I don't have personal experience with this one. Belle Isis which is also supposed to have myrrh fragrance, doesn't smell that strong to my nose.
I will be interested in other responces, I like myrrh fragrance a lot myself.
Olga

I won't recommend Tamora, I think she would require some spray in Virginia. What is the rose she was bred from? Was it Gloire Dejon? Sorry about the spelling.

Hi. I really like the myrrh scent and Cymbeline and St. Cecelia are my favorites. I think their scents are more complex and perfume-y than some other myrrh scents. Neither can be grown in a no spray garden, though. I also grow Joan Fontaine, another myrrh scented rose, which has above average bs resistance, but it will get bs if not sprayed.

Hope this helps.
Jennifer

If you have any ?? you can email me as I can't get on the garden web as much as I'd like to follow threads.

Two roses with a really memorable myrrh fragrance for me are Chaucer and The Yeoman, but of course these are probably going to be disease disasters no-spray. I have always wanted to try to grow Cymbeline.

I strongly suggest the Paul Barden rose Allegra, which is a once-bloomer, showed good disease resistance for me in my old garden (not, however disease immunity by any means). The flowers are large, extremely double and stunning, and the fragrance is very strong, with a myrrh component to it.

For other unusual fragrances, I used to grow the HP Clio in my old garden and it had a very unusual, spicy fragrance that was very nice to my nose and unlilke any other rose fragrance. It is a thorny, upright grower, and the flowers have very fine petals, so it may have balling problems, though it did not for me (I only grew it for a few years before I moved. I will probably try it again soon).

'Belle Amour' does have a very strong cold cream scent and is a good rose that makes a thorny thicket of 4' canes in zone 6. The small, double, light pink flowers open to the classic cup shape and have a bold ring of yellow stamens. I happend to grow this rose next to 'Constance Spry' and was surprised at how similar the canes look, although the shape of the mature plants is quite different and, of course, the flowers of 'Constance Spry' are much larger.

Tamora smells like salt water taffy to me. Disease resistance is ok, not great. She blooms better in the fall than the hot weather.

I'm particularly fond of the piercing, strong anise scent of Ambridge Rose (and it's beautiful, too). I have no idea how well it grows in the Southeast/Mid-Atlantic, though. It probably gets quite a bit of disease.

I also love the scent of Fair Bianca, which I probably covered well enough in the other thread. I never used Noxema face cream, but I probably would if I knew it would smell like Fair Bianca.

My reaction to others has been ho-hum, mostly. I do like them for the variety of fragrances they add. Of the whole lot, though, only Glamis Castle smells downright dreadful to me.

Ambridge gets BS really bad here.
Olga

Robert,
Cressida has a VERY strong myrrh fragrance. So strong that when I put my shnoz into a single bloom from a small plant that I had purchased from Michael's Premier Roses (now closed) I reflexively snapped my head back.. It was strong. Donated it to Planting Fields Arboretum when I moved to CA but everyone who has it loves it and remarks on the fragrance here on GW. Reddell(CA) listed it as one of his top 100 favorites and referred to it as "a trollop of a rose", a description I have always loved.. about disease resistance I can't say. I have St. Cecilia which has a myrrh blend undertone and like the fragrance. It has lovely pink cupped blooms with a hint of buff pink in the center. It gets some bs without spraying but doesn't totally defoliate; not an "octopus" in growth either but somewhat upright.
Jim

I appreciate the posts so far...let me say that my tolerance for BS and defoliation is quite high...so this should open up some options. Robert

Scepter'd Isle has a nice myrrh scent. To me she looks like a tiny version of Constance Spry with the pretty pink cups but with good repeat bloom. Unfortuneatly health isn't so great, but mine survives without spraying and you say you're tolerant of some defoliation so try it.

Stefan, Noxema face cream has a noxious medicine smell--yucky. Hope Fair Bianca smells like Oil of Olay instead but I don't grow her, so I dunno. Tamora has a wonderful fragrance but requires a lot of TLC; I find her a bit stingy but so far-- she's too nice to give up. I had a huge, huge plant of Constance Spry back in Ohio, what a glorious rose! Unforgettable fragrance.

I think Jude the Obscure is myrrh scented. If that's what it is, Jude's fragrance is very strong to my nose. He also is quite floriferous in my garden.Today, there is a cold burned bud that he threw out a wk. ago during a warm spell. When the blooms are good, they take my breath away with the cupped form and rich color. I have 2 side by side and I love them! Buff

Myrrh scent aside, I think 'Belle Amour' is worth growing. Of course, she's thorny and floppy and once-blooming and big, and I don't know how her disease resistance would be in your garden (I had her in Olympia and again here in Italy, no problems). So why grow 'Belle Amour'? Well, she's beautiful with her boss of stamens and salmon-tinted pink semi-double blooms, which fall cleanly and make a drift of petals at the base of the plant. She's fragrant, and I think it is a kind of myrrh scent, and, while I never have really put BA to the test, she gives me the impression of being hard to kill. And 'Belle Amour' is unique: once you get to know her you won't confuse her with any other rose. I went to some trouble to get her for my garden here, and am hoping that the cuttings I took of her last fall will take (they did last year, then died during the summer drought). Recommended.

Melissa

To my nose Jude is very fruity like tangerines or grapefruit, not like my myrrh scented roses at all.

I forgot to add Distant Drums as a good disease resistant myrrh rose. It is shorter than most Austins in my garden only 3 feet high by 2 feet wide.

Robert,
If you wanted to try Tamora, I doubt you would call her stingy. Scent is a myrrh blend. She is a bloom machine here and stays clean with my spraying at 3 week intervals. If you can deal with some BS, Tamora is worth a try.

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St. Swithun is really nice, too. Pretty prink, strong grower, very little cane dieback last winter (and seems to be heading that way this winter, too), pretty good disease resistance and repeat...

Distant Drums, Long John Silver, Focus (Lens) and Little White Pet have myrrh fragrance too.

Some Rosa californica have a cinnamon-clove fragrance

Rosa soulieana smells like cinnamon.

I certainly do appreciate all these suggestions. I have added many of them to my spring order!

Robert

Robert----A few years ago I read a nice little love story about a rose----It was sort of a ghost story and if I remember correctly it took place on Nantucket-----It revolved around a rose called Belle Amour ---I can't remember the name of the book and at the present I'm in a wheelchair and can't get near the bookcase where the book is--As soon as I have access to that area I will tell you the name of the book---You might enjoy reading it.
It said it was very fragrant.

Florence

Thanks, Florence...I'm sure I'll enjoy reading it, too. I'll definitely add Belle Amour to my collection.

I'm surprised no one mentioned Ayrshire Splendens...it's in my yard and supposed to be myrrh scented...unfortunately, the goats got it before it had an opportunity to bloom..that shouldn't happen this year.

Robert

I had one back in Minnesota, but it was a terrible disease magnet and because of its tenderness, only managed to bloom one year. The flower was fairly pretty, but the scent wasn't overwhelming, so I'd personally rather have Austins.

Robert,
If I recall correctly (a problem these days) I smelled A. Splendens and R. Dupontii at Dennis Whetzel's garden. They both had a nice scent with the bite of myrhh..really loved the R. Dupontii.
Jim

Thanks Jim and Florence..I'll check them out. Stefan, my Ayshire Splendens does not seem to be bothered by disease...yet.

Robert