I was given a Grimaldi last year and I just love it. Part of the Painters collection, this is the write up: Shimmering garb of sumptuos colours, bright salmon pink buds, with strokes of white mingling quite unpredictably and eventually fading to sodter pinks. Clusters of blooms, constantly flowering, clad in luxuriant foliage, delicate perfume of lemon and rose, robust and disease resistant. H 100cm.
Must love the north here as it is nearly always in bloom.
Sorry it is not a good shot, just using the photoshot part of my digital video, only 0.8 megapixel. Does not do the colours well but this is close.
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Judy

Dioressence looks divine. Imagine being able to smell that in your garden!

I have 3 delbards...Henri Matisse,Grimaldi and Mme Bovary.
They are all great for perfume and vase.Also vigorous as well.
I don't have a pic ready of Mme Bovary but she is a huge prickly girl with long canes and gorgeous huge blooms of bright pink and yellow.
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I have got 3 of the Grand Parfums collection. Charteuse de Parme, Dioressence and Souvenir de Marcel Proust. I love all of them. They all smell fabulous. You will love all of them. I'll make more rooms and may buy the rest :)
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I've got Grimaldi but blowed if I can smell any perfume. Attractive blooms but I think I'd rather have a DA or a tea any time. At the moment the bush is covered in flowers but they seem to have lost the pronounced stripe that they had when I bought her about a year ago.

Has anyone else found this with this rose?
Barb

Yoda and Sandie - beautiful photos and roses!

Yoda is the first rose in your photos, the first two mauve ones, Dioressence or Chartreuse de Parme? It is lovely. What is its growth like, ie thorny, bushy, spindly etc

Try and find the new release, Maurice Utrillo . It is the latest in the painters series. Striped red and white petals. Lasts well as a cut flower. It was released in mid january. I have some potted ones here that have been flowering since then. Another great one , but a climber , is Papi Delbard.

Picture 1 and 2 are Dioressence. Picture 3 is Chartreuse de Parme and 4 and 5 are Souvenir de Marcel Proust.The Dior's growth habit is a bit tall, not quite double bloom, not many thorns. I think it is like Grandiflora growth habit (tall and always in clusters.)Lol hope you understand my English :)

Y'all are such A-List rosies; now I want what everybody else has. Really tempted by the Proust, but I have too many yellows, and more coming. Ditto Dioressence - but can't take any more lilacs. Okay, then, for my purposes, I think I'll make it this trio: Chartreuse, Henri Matisse (selling as boxed flowers at Gollings florist, which bodes well for vase life) and, for a test run, maybe Belle du Seigneur, not yet mentioned here - or does anyone know it to be a dog?

Oh no, I'm going to Rankins in April and my husband said 'NO MORE ROSES', just look, but I have to have at least one of these - but where to put it? Are they ok in pots?

Hi, BetsyW, I have one Belle du Seigner in pot for about half a year. The perfume of the flower is great/refreshing. Mine's white with a pale manuve eye/centre but the colour fades to pure white when fully open. I have several Delbard roses, the Belle du Seigner and the Grimaldi seems to be much disease (black-spot) resistence than the others. It's quite easy to grow and flowers well in "hot" summer in Sydney. However, I have never cut the flowers of Belle du Seigner and put them in vase; hence I don't know their vase life.

Hi, I have Grimaldi and Paul Cezanne in pots and they are very healthy and flowering like troupers. Paul Cezanne doesn't seem to have a perfume, but Grimaldi has a light delicate perfume. Its flowers are beautiful when they come out but after a few days get floppy and loose looking. But there are so many of them on the bush it doesn't seem to matter. I have another rose I bought at the same time, but I am not sure if it is a Delbard, its name is Fetes Gallante. It has the most enormous full petalled, blowsie pink flowers, very 1930's looking to me. The smell is magnificent, and the flowers last over two weeks on the bush, but being restricted in a pot, it is only giving me one or two at a time. But boy are they spectacular! I think that in the ground it would grow to be rather large and produce flowers more abundantly.

Wow, this is all so goooood.
Lizzy, I looked at Fetes G and pondered deeply about this one. You've pushed me over the top.

Think I'll strike Belle dS from List - thank you Feline, for pointing out its whiteness. I didn't pick up on that - but then I was so diverted by the ravishing Kama Sutra-class rose porn. (Boy, don't those Delbard copywriters make the uber-spin merchants at Jackson & Perkins sound like Debbie Does Dallas by comparison!)

Feline, are you sure you have a Belle du Seigneur? Every search i do for it , it comes up as a white/copper/ochre blend. Is this whiteness a result of Oz onditions, maybe?

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Hi, Betsy, I bought my Belle du Seigneur from Swane with the label on it (may be another case of mis-label). When I brought it, the flowers are white with a hints of creamy yellow/pale lemon in the centre and after several months in my garden, the colour of the flowers intensified and the centre turns to more orange/red/ochre but the flowers when fully opens still fades to pure white and the colour are still not as rich as the picture you posted. I don't know why; may be the temp in summer cause the fading in colour as my Comtes de Champaigne, Peace changes colours when the temp is high (Comtes turn from yellow to pink while Peace from yellow to white). However, in many cases, I find that the colour of the roses becomes richer months after I bought it. I have prune the Bell du S a few weeks ago and is waiting for new flowers to appear -- I am eager to see what colour it is after it stabilized.

I couldn't get over the amazing fragrance of Citron Fraise when I smelled it at Swanes. It is quite literally its translation - Lemon Strawberry. Even the variable petal colours match the fruit. Remarkable.

I have 25 of them, the full range last year and have been impressed by their strength and vigour. not much black spot, good colour and perfume. Great in vases last a long time!

Lynne

What are the new ones being released this year? It seems to be some secret. I've looked around on the Rankins website and can't find any specific names and descriptions.
I get the Delbard catalogue from France, but some of the roses they save the most impossibly wonderful adjectives for haven't yet crossed the seas. By the way, they reckon the smell of Paul Cezanne is 'envoutant'. I still haven't looked up what that means, but I have a feeling that it's so highly perfumed it will send you into a coma.

Envoutant means bewitching... and the French word for coma happens to be coma, so keep an eye out :-)