well other than the white single flowering datura, the doubles don't have any smell, at least not for me. But i'd kill to live in a climate where I could leave my brugs in the yard, the flowers hang on the plant, 30 plus at once and man it is ever the most spectacular thing you ever seen or smelled.I'm so glad I bought this half dead brug 4 yrs ago, it was a 5-6 foot tall dead tree on sale for 17.99, now i'm going to collect as many varieties as i can.

I know what you mean Smurfboy! I have both the triple purple dat that has no seedpods at all and the triple yellow dat has pods everywhere!!

My bruggies just went nuts this year, they did not flower in flushes, it bloomed non stop from the first bloom untill I cut them down and even then they had a ton of flowers and buds on them.

I have a number of single and double daturas and brugs. I've never noticed a scent from any of the daturas but the brugs smell wonderful. I don't think that the datura blooms are more spectacular than the brugs at all. I have some triple yellow and purple daturas that have gorgeous flowers but I think the double brugs are more eye catching then they are. It's funny that the brugs have no smell during the day but at night, wow! I guess it has something to do with the natural pollinators. The brugs are definitely an addicting plant, one is never enough. lol
Karyn

Would one of you please post pictures of the Brugs and the daturas so I can see the difference. I am new to these plants and am getting confused. Thanks, I really appreciate it.
Jardinera

The first two pics are brugs. The blooms hang down and the leaves are usually quite large.
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This is a datura. The blooms and leaves are smaller and usually more upright.

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Karyn

Karyn,
Thank you so much. Your pictures are great.
Now I know better.
Jardinera

Brugs.
Mine are in the yard year round. They bloom best after it rains. We've had a LOT of rain this year. I work evenings so when I get home in the middle of the night the yard smells wonderful! Some of the brugs had over 100 blooms at one time!!
Got some great new ones at the Mercer and Galveston Co. trades, got the cuttings in today & if the rain quits will get the rest planted tomorrow.
Tally HO!

Hi Karyn, I said that the flowers on dats were better just because I have the triple yellow and triple purple, they are beautiful!
I have never seen a double Brug.. guess I should broaden my horizons huh? ;)

I honestly prefer the scent of the daturas. Maybe it's because that's what we started with. The brugs smell really sweet but overpowering, especially when I have a bunch blooming in the living room.

Sorry I have to pick them both for their different fragrances, especially the peanut butter fragrance of Dat. Missouri Marble! I have to agree with qbirdy on the over powering brug fragrances when you grow hundreds of them!

I think that it may be possible that some people have a genetic disposition to either pick up or not pick up the scent of Datura or Brugmansia. I can keenly smell the fragrance of a Datura bloom, and have a nose for the pungent odor which the foliage of either releases when disturbed, but I have never picked up a scent from a Brugmansia's flower. My mother, on the other hand, is quite sensitive to the aroma of Brugmansia's blooms, but cannot detect the scent of a bruised leaf from Brugmansia. In this way, I am inclined to favour the scent of Datura over Brugmansia, but only because I simply do not have a nose for the latter. I did get a sensation from a Brugmansia x candida (double white) once, however. Alas, I must agree that double Daturas release little, if any, scent.

This was interesting to read
My vote is for the fragrance of Brugmansia.
Datura though is such an easy plant to grow and seems to bloom none stop for me.
Interesting though what "bismuth" wrote that some people might smell one and not the other.

On a rather interesting note, I found great deal on a frosty pink today. I tried the smell test once again. For me, it smells like Windex. I think I'm going to buy it.

I bought it.

I'm new to these plants but had a single white datura I was given this summer. It had 3 blooms, and they smelled great but lasted only a day. I've smelled Brugs at the San Diego Zoo and they smelled heavenly. Do all the fancy hybrids have a good scent or has it been bred out of some inadvertently? Do Brug flowers last longer than Dats?

I'm also wondering, since they are in the nightshade family do they get the little bumps on the stems like tomatoes that form roots really fast?

Hi Hemnancy. My double and triple daturas have no scent but all of my brugs have a nice smell. My double and trip dats last longer than the single varieties but not more than a few days. My single brug varieties usually last 2 or 3 days. When it's not too hot I've had double brugs last up to 5 days.

I grow daturas as annuals and have never noticed the bumps on their stems but mature brug stems are full of them and root very easily.

Thanks for the info, Karyn. I may try starting some from seed unless I can arrange a trade for cuttings. I have lots of named daylilies, and heirloom tomato and bean seeds, some houseplants like Orchid and Christmas cactus, and social onion, Ledebouria socialis.