I had Nastarana at my old place. I remember it being very fragrant and very pretty.

Some people near me now have what I'm sure is Ducher. I was able to get a cutting from them, but it didn't "take." I don't remember it being that fragrant to me.

Red is my least favorite rose color. I did have Francis Dubreuil/Barcelona once for that wonderful scent. And the blackish red was more acceptable to me.

Our library branch used to be at a smaller location behind which was a quiet little neighborhood/subdivision. I would sometimes drive through it to get to work. One day during a December, I noticed a small rounded bush at the edge of a lawn near the road. It was covered in small round flowers. "Is that a rose?" I thought. To me it looked like a little red China. I mentioned it to a coworker who sometimes took walks in the neighborhood, and that afternoon I went walking with her to get a closer look at the bush. It was a rose, a little red China that smelled like cherries. I figured it must be Louis Phillippe or Cramoisi Superieur. Very healthy, covered in clean foliage and flowers in December.

I've avoided Chinas in the past because of their general lack of scent, but last month or so I decided to give Louis Phillippe a try, and now have a little gallon plant of him. He hasn't bloomed yet. I hope he smells like cherry incense.

I also bought "Spice." I think that one fades to white.

I agree with you about the beauty of Aimee Vibert. The scent is nice, but not my favorite. I prefer the scent of Blush Noisette and Nastarana.

bellegallica, how cool to come across an O.G.R. by a public library!
melissa, I forgot about Gallicas!!! Which is THE rose class I most associate with the color Red. Have you ever visited vintage gardens home garden? In Sebastopol?
In June the gallica section is a riot of red and mauve blends; crimson, murrey, violet, lilac to burgundy, velvety stippled, striped and dappled roses. What a glorious profusion of beauty! I've actually fantasized of camping out in the Gallica garden in a tent and hoping that Gregg never finds me. How rose-crazy must a person be before such a thought ever flickers past her mind?
It is in a secret garden kind of landscape, you go through a tall wooden arbor planted on each side with two enormous 'Long John Silver' by a tree sized ' Mme. Plantier', and enter a large grassy glade hidden by tall bushes around the perimeter. around the rosebushes are numerous foxglove, single purple clematis, amid Gallica roses galore, with Scotch Burnets, Centifolia and Alba, all the Ancient Roses. It is my favorite garden in the world, even Kew, (which I adore) can't hold a candle to it, in my mind.
The Apothecary Rose is my favorite Gallica, though in our warm climate it blooms more pink than red, other Gallicas are fancier but that one grabs at my heartstrings whenever I see it.
I planted a 'Mme. Zoetmans' and promptly lost the label but it's easy to spot her with her lighter "fresh green" foliage as Graham S. Thomas calls it.
I've seen photos of Dupontii, and agree there is something very special about that rose.
I have Belle Sultane which I bought because of her supposed violet hues, which don't show hardly at all in our warm climate. But I love her odd wand like growth habit, hardly any laterals to speak of. Good reddish-orange foliage color in the autumn. I saw 3 hips on my neighbors plant of Belle Sultane and meant to ask if I couldl have them to see if they would germinate, but they were pruned off before I could collect them. Next year I'll keep my eye on that one cane because last year it also produced hips. Her Belle Sultane is growing beside 'Souvenir du Dr. Jamain', and if those hips came from that crossing I think that would make a pretty GallicaxH.P. hybrid.
I've greatly admired photos of 'Sanguinea' and hope to meet it in person. I'll have to check if Sanguinea is at San jose heritage rose garden or sacramento cemetary historical rose garden.

Lux.

For whites, I must include those with a hint of Lemon.

I would pick:
1. Devoniensis (which is completely clean here)
2. All of the "Blush Noisette" group of cluster-flowering Noisettes -- that would include Placerville White, Setzer, and Roseville.
3. Cl. Sombreuil (The Wichurana thing, not the true Tea)
4. 'Le Pactole'
5. "La Dama Blanca" -- Going out on a limb here, because this has not been here long -- tho I have long-admired it in an old cemetery. Jill Perry believes this is 'Gloire Lyonnaise'
6. "Legacy Of The Richardson Family" ("George Washington Richardson") I have no idea what this is, but it seems to be disease-free and a real champion repeater. It can have a blush cast in cool weather.
7. "Louise Avenue" -- which is probably 'Snowbird.'
'Ducher' and 'Aimee Vibert' are campaigning for this list, and make make it.
8. 'Lamarque.'

REDS:
I have fewer red favorites, because mildew can be a problem for reds (particularly fragrant ones). But I would name:
1. 'Gloire des Rosomanes' ("Ragged Robin") -- IMHO, this can't be beat for disease-resistance and continuity of bloom.
2. 'Louis Phillipe' -- This BIG China is disease-free -- can take a lickin' and keep on tickin'.
3. "Elisabeth's China" -- from the Sacramento City Cemetery is as richly fragrant as any Double Delight.
4. 'Prospero' -- A SMALL Austin, which is a champ in SoCal, if treated like a China.

Jeri

I would select Cramoisi Superieur for my favorite red. Maggie is a pretty red. Vincent Godsif, a Bermuda rose is pretty, and also Thomas Affleck.

My favorite white must be Ducher.

I had to look up each rose to be sure of its color. Many that I think of as white are really pink or yellow. Also many of the reds are not truly red.

Sammy

I have very few whites but Kronprinzessin Viktoria von Preussen and Alexander Hill Gray (which for me is creamy white rather than yellow) are my favorites.

I really don't at all care for roses that have a true red color and therefore have none, except for Sophie's Rose, which starts out red but then quickly turns into a purple red which I do like very much. My favorite "red" is Burgundy Iceberg, which performs wonderfully for me.

Ingrid

I realize that I have more white favourites than I thought at first. Double White is one of my first roses in bloom and sets the tone of the whole garden. It was here by the gate when we moved in, an enormous thicket, with a smaller thicket not far away, a shortlived froth of white. Passers by stop and smell and many pick a thorny rose or two. One spring I found a pair of scissors stuck in it, it is a very thorny rose!

My red favourite is another spinosissima, Single Cherry, also called Red Nelly. The grey undersides really set the red off. I have many reddish gallicas but my present favourite is Manteau pourpre, perhaps because it is fairly new to my garden.

I started a small red and white bed last year with Quatre saisons blanc mousseux on one side of a fallen log and La neige on the other side with three of the McGredy floribunda Old Port next to it. I planted lots of white bulbs near for spring interest, Allium amplectus, snowdrops, Thalia narcissi.

Until these white roses take off, as well as the dupontii planted only this fall, I have enjoyed Kronprinzessin Viktoria, Madame Plantier, Mme Legras de St. Germain, Madame Hardy, Frau Karl Druschki and Suaveolens.

Henri Martin is so red that I used it for a Christmas card one year but it has grown backwards in later years and is a mini now. I'll try to nurse it back to its former glory.

One spring I found a pair of scissors stuck in it, it is a very thorny rose!

LOL !!!!

Lux, that's a great description of the Gallicas. What marvelous roses they are. I want a lot more of them.
I don't think your fantasy is unreasonable at all. I've had the idea that if the young trees in our sunny garden ever get big enough to give significant shade, I might go live there for days at a time, coming in the house only to pick up necessities. Right now, though, it's too blazingly bright there in the summer.
Melissa

My favorite white is Rosa moschata. Next to that I could add Marie Pavie, but to me Marie Pavie is actually a very pale pink, not a true white.

I have a number of favorite reds, but f I had to pick one it would be the HT Oklahoma. After that there are about a dozen in close second place. One or two of them are not even fragrant!

Rosefolly

My favorite white is Alba Semiplena. I also love Mme Alfred Carrier (don't grow it anymore myself, but still love it), Mme. Zoetmans, Alba Maxima and Darlow's Enigma.
As for red, I love Francis Debreuil, Cramosie Superior, Quadra, Liebeszauber, Dublin Bay. My absolutely favorite red (don't jump on me) is actually Veterans Honor. I only grow two HTs now, but this one is absolute winner for me. It blooms a lot, it has perfect deep red color and FRAGRANCE is to die for. I know it supposed to be not fragrant, but my VH has strong raspberry smell. Perfect to my nose.

Olga

All of my OGRs are pink. I should remedy that. But if polyanthas will do I have the beautiful white Blanche Neige and the fiery red Zenaitta. Both of these are bloom machines too.

oh, white roses - my favourites. How to choose though. Would have to start with the fabulous Nevada - like a stately galleon, sailing across the grass/weed patch. Like Mariannese, i must put in a vote for the charming double white. As a rule, single roses have always stole my heart but these dainty cupped blossoms, alomg with the delicious ferny leaves, fit brilliantly amongst the untidy vegetable profusion of the allotment.
Because I have many timber supports in the raised beds (there are currently 23 of these beds) I grow more climbers and ramblers than shrubs or bushes. Much as I would like great swathes of Wedding Day, Seagull et al, I have to be content with just a couple of large white roses so have chosen R.soulieana, R.helenae and the gorgeously fragrant, if a tad touchy in the famously nippy easterly winds, Nastarana. Finally, another vote for a Pemberton classic, Moonlight. One of his earliest and imo, one of his best hybrid musks. It is still throwing out bloom clusters, arching out and up, entangling with an unruly Snowgoose (a surprise Austin addition to the list)
Red......hmmm, not my fave colour although a 10 year old moyesii is truly fabulous, underplanted with stooled purple filberts and an equally vivid tanacetum - yay. I do not have Souv.de Dr.Jamain although I have planted several for customers. A lovely rose but Etoile d'Hollande is still my favourite velvet red. Lastly, a simple 'cottagey' rose I do have is Paul's Scarlet climber - always fresh, bright and easier to site in a rambling allotment, than most reds (which always seem more formal and 'grown up' for my garden style).