Double Delight & Rouge Royale are 2 HT's in my garden that always provide a reason to stop & smell the roses.

Thank you for your frangrant HT suggestions! I love your English Perfume, will have to add that to my wish list! My Memorial Day is also very fragrant but a much paler pink than yours. My Francis is a bloom machine but not super fragrant to my nose.

HTs are my favorite and I feel like fragrant roses with good form are the main attraction in my garden. I also love the stripeys and grandifloras but HTs have stolen my gardeners heart.

Let me dig through my photos and see if I can find some fragrant HTs to share.

Chrysler Imperial

Double Delight which my daughter says smells like lemonade and I have to agree!

PJPII

Paradise Found which was a new one for me that is very fragrant

Neil Diamond was also quite fragrant

Broceliande

My garden is pretty much done for the season so these are only the fragrant ones I can think of, I'm sure come spring I'd be able to add a few more but these are the ones that stand out to me.

Andrea

I'm very interested in hearing the responses to this thread. I'm trying to look for a consistently strongly fragrant rose. What I noticed for me is that while Mister Lincoln is certainly my strongest fragrance, the conditions have to be right, sometimes the scent is very faint. Pope John Paul II is generally a weaker scent, but more reliably there to my nose whenever I take a whiff.

The other day I was at a local nursery and I got a whiff of a single Fragrant Cloud bloom, it must have been the strongest fragrance I've ever smelt- like perfume. There were some Firefighter blooms but I found it to be very weak which surprised me since I've read good things about its fragrance. It also seemed like kind of a sour smell- not as sweet as Mister Lincoln. Fragrant Cloud and Perfume Delight at the nursery were obviously a lot stronger and sweeter of a fragrance to me than Firefighter. If I know that Fragrant Cloud can be consistently strongly fragrant, I would get this rose for the fragrance even though the color didn't appeal to me much.

Wirosarian, I think Rouge Royale is such a beautiful rose, would love to have that one. Andrea, your Chrysler Imperial is gorgeous, I love it's fragrance too, but it's one of mine that's not blooming much, I love your PJPII too and all your other fragrant beauties! Dan, your Mister Lincoln is perfect! I think Fragrant Cloud is supposed to be consistently fragrant.. Perfume Delight is very fragrant for me too, it came close to making the list! My other very fragrant HT's are Forgotten Dreams, Twilight Zone, Bewitched, Big Momma, Buxom Beauty, Fragrant Plum, Mister Lincoln, Meredith, Melodee Parfumme, Cinnamon Dolce and Amalia.

Barbara Streisand, Pink Peace, Memorial Day, Firefighter, Oklahoma, Snowbird, Bewitched, Quietness, Fragrant Plum and Falling in Love are roses I grow which come to mind while thinking of Hybrid teas and fragrance. One of the primary criteria for a rose having a place in my garden is good fragrance.

That is a gorgeous la France bloom, Sara-ann. My baby plant has a bud showing color. It is seemingly taking forever to open. Originally I was anticipating seeing its blooms, now I want to smell it

Lynn

It seems like Pink Peace is very fragrant for a lot of people. It has its times, but for me it smells like nothing most times.

I have only four hybrid teas. I smelled Fragrant Plum at a nursery and since I love mauve/purple roses and this one was so fragrant, I brought it home, but it hasn't bloomed yet. It does have a bud or two so I hope it won't be too long before I can sniff a flower. The other fragrant one is La France, which to me combines old rose fragrance with strong citrus overtones. It seems "smelly" to me most of the time. I mainly love old roses or modern roses that look like them, and have found that The Ingenious Mr. Fairchild, an Austin, has an extremely potent fragrance, much more so as the bush has matured.

I don't have many HTs, but of those I do, these are my favorites for scent:

'Gruss an Coburg'
'Lemon Spice'
'Mirandy'
'Velvet Fragrance'

:-)

~Christopher

Crimson Glory and Sutter's Gold. Very old and old HTs. Strongest fragrance in my garden, and Sutter's Gold is yellow.

Jackie

'Chartreuse de Parme' always knocked me for six, even though I don't like these types of roses too much... so it's no longer in my collection...

..whereas climbing Hybrid Tea 'Marie Nabonnand' is more to my liking... with a scent more of old roses than new.... it's just started to climb for me here...

I have very few hybrid teas, but Frederic Mistral is by far the most highly scented. My poor, failing Memorial Day has a little scent as does Augusta Luise, which is supposed to be highly scented and even won awards for it. It's so dry here that roses have a hard time projecting scent outside, but smell a lot more strongly inside in bouquets in this desert. Diane

Frederic Mistral

Diane

My new Crescendo had a lot of fragrance for me.

'Secret' beats 'Tiffany' for scent in my garden. Here it's being paler than usual.

All my big reds -- Mr. Lincoln, Don Juan and Oklahoma -- are very fragrant here, although Diane is right about their having more fragrance inside than out (in a dry climate). Pink Peace has never failed fragrance-wise -- go figure.

Having an underdeveloped sense of smell, I don't often notice which roses are fragrant or not, but for the sake of visitors, I incorporated a Perfumed Path right through the center of my large main bed.

Here is a photo showing part of the Perfumed Path--HTs starting on the right side are Double Delight, Elle (apricot-pink), Berolina (yellow), and directly across from it, you can catch part of Memoire (one big white bloom). Off to the left where you can't see them in this pic are two more: Oklahoma and Valencia.

There are other fragrant roses in my garden--such as Peter Mayle and Mrs. John Laing over by my neighbor's ugly garage--, but their presence is mostly an accident, and not because I was selecting for fragrance.

Several of my Austins, of course, are fragrant, most notably, Munstead Wood, Lady of Shalott, Pretty Jessica, and especially Scepter'd Isle. Not far from Scepter'd Isle is the fragrant bourbon Mystic Beauty--and several of theselast named roses are close to my back door, so anyone entering or leaving is wrapped in lovely scents.

[Edited to add: Oops, mis-remembered my Home Runs. They are the ones that are NOT fragrant. Sorry about that--deleted them from this post.]

And finally, I have another fragrant collection at the back of my property, along the fence that separates my yard from the alley. I didn't plan this, but that is where all my hybrid musks and some other older type shrubs are planted along that fence, and it is really starting to smell good out there: Buff Beauty, Felicia, Boule de Neige, Fru Dagmar Halstrup, and Ghislaine de Feligonde.

You know, I didn't realize I had so many islands of fragrance in my yard until I began typing up this post. I initially thought the Perfumed Path was the only fragrant spot in the garden, but then these other places started popping up and surprising me. I guess I sometimes planted better than I knew! : )

Kate

I guess I'm a little bit different then most folks. When I think of a fragrant rose, I think OGR or David Austin shrub. Most of my HT's have a mild, soft fragrance. But I do have a HT that, to me is the whole package. Louise Estes. Easy to grow and grows very good, long cutting stems, beautiful foliage, and a good strong fragrance.

Lots of fragrant beauties everyone. Iris, that is such a lovely picture of Secret, makes me want to try that one again. Ken, I would agree about the fragrance of OGR. I haven't had enough experience with Austin roses to have an opinion yet, hopefully I will in the next couple of years. The HT's I have named are very fragrant though, but fragrance is subjective. I have several roses that are considered fragrant, but to me they're not, or have a very light fragrance: Tropicana, Folklore, Miss All American Beauty and America are a few I can think of.

Wow!!! These pictures are divine!!!! Oh my!!!!

Here are my favorites for fragrance.

The McCartney Rose

Chandos Beauty

St. Ethelburga

Yves Piaget

Neil Diamond

Big Purple

Pink Peace

Strawberry Hill

Velvet Fragrance

Peter Mayle

Carol, you've got some beauties! This thread could be very enabling!

Starting this topic about fragrant hybrid teas has also reminded me that I have four very fragrant floribundas: Sunsprite, Angel Face, Orchid Romance and Sheila's Perfume.

I would love to get Orchid Romance!!! It was a new one for me until I saw your? pictures on line. I can never remember whose thread/statement was whose. :)

Carol

Carol, it's a very good rose for me, here's a picture from earlier in the season.

Perfume delight, fragrant cloud, oklahola, sugarmoon and double delight and Nahema are my most fragrant. :)

Ooooh!!! I love it Sara-Ann!!!!

Carol

Great pics everyone!

Dan8_GW, Over the years, I have learned a few things about fragrance in roses.

Fragrance can be a fleeting thing. The rose that smelled overpowering at 10AM might smell faint at 5pm. When you smell a rose, you are smelling the evaporating oils within the flower. The sun works on these all day till not much is left to smell. The greatest exception for me is Double Delight. Even at the end of the day, that one remains strong. Temperature, and humidity also play a part.

When testing roses for scent, try early in the day when the temps are above 65 and below 80, preferably when the sun is on the flower- that's when fragrance is at its peak.

Buds that have just opened are a lot more fragrant than a flower thats been open a day or more. If it has just rained, the fragrance will be muted until the water is gone from inside the flower.

Each nose is different. My wife can smell some scents that smell like nothing to me, and visa versa. We both agree that "Scentimental" is scentless, although it's always listed as "Strongly Fragrant".

It's easy for the nose to get tired. After smelling a few, take a break, or smell some coffee beans to reset your nose. And once you have them ranked, try smelling the weaker ones first, because after a couple of puffs of the big ones, your nose won't be able to smell the weaker ones.

My most fragrant yellow is Lemon Spice

My most fragrant yellow blend is Bella'roma

Can't go wrong with Double Delight

I haven't seen Typhoo Tea mentioned yet, and this one is unbelievable-

Bronze Star has a powerful scent as well-

Melody Parfumee is probably my best smelling, best performing Purple, although its a Grandiflora, not a Hybrid Tea-

Maria Shriver is a delightful White-

That was very interesting Ameri2nal!!! I would really like to get Typhoo Tea!

Carol

Very interesting Ameri2na hearing your experience with a roses fragrance. Your observations do appear very accurate, my roses do seem to smell better early but after the sun has hit them for a bit, while not much fragrance in the evening. I'm glad to know that Double Delight can be fragrant most times of the day. Typhoo Tea also looks very pretty, I may just get that one instead of Fragrant Cloud for next year.

Ameri, you have some lovely ones! I had Lemon Spice one season, it's a beautiful, fragrant rose. Love Typhoo Tea and glad to know Maria Shriver is fragrant.

I love your list fragrance! I have several that you have, and if I don't have them, I wish I did! My Frederic Mistral hasn't bloomed yet, I love the pictures I've seen. Your Perfume Delight looks very elegant! Love them all!

Fragrancenutter - Lovely roses!!!! I really love your pictures of Beverly and Perfume Delight!! I have most of your pink roses - you and I live for fragrance!!!! Which of your red ones is your favorite?? I need to get a red rose.

Hi Carol, my favourite red is probably Papa M but he has a poor reputation in colder zones so I would probably recommend my second favourite to you which is firefighter. This is a tall rose for cutting. If you would prefer compact bush covered in flowers all the time but don't want to cut the blooms then Crimson Glory is great. It is short and spends all its energy into flowering and it is always covered in buds and flowers on short stems. Firefighter has the best disease resistance. Papa M and CG can mildew if the conditions are right. Firefighter repeats more than Papa M and is a lot more vigorous. All three smell divine!

That was a very good summary of the pros and cons of these 3 roses. Thank you!!! I'm going to print this and keep it for when Hortico online gets running.

Thanks!

Carol

I didn't know Barbra could be so beautiful, fragrancen--lovely bouquet. And I am envious of your Memorial Day blooms. Just love all those frilly scallops. Diane

Diane, Barbra is my best mauve rose in fragrance, productivity, health, and beauty. People in dry climates should grow her more often.

My Memorial Day is currently covered with more than 50 buds on long strong stems. Will take another picture when they open. It is so much more vigorous this year than last year. Looks like this rose took a little time to really settle in and then it just went crazy with growth and flowers. I think I might have kept it too dry last year as well which stunted her growth. As the plant got bigger I also cleared all the sea lavender plants that were crowding it in the same bed. The reduced root competition would have helped too. Anyway the plant has tripled in size in the last 6 weeks.

Wow! I should airmail my pitiful Memorial Day to you for emergency treatment! I can't really blame it for being so awful--it's been transplanted and both locations were terrible. But it's next to an Evelyn in just as terrible a spot, and of course, poor Evelyn does way than Mem Day. It does not compare well.

Thanks for your info on Barbra. I'm going to research her a bit. It doesn't sound like she's the prima donna the real Barbra is. Diane

Savannah

Sara-Ann Z6B OK or anyone in cold zone: Among your fragrant hybrid teas, which ones are own-roots and which ones survive winter best (either grafted or own-root)? Thank you.

Al Mitchell zone 5b (ameri2nal) Same questions as above. Is your Typhoo Tea own-root and how well does it survive zone 5 winter?

Sam's club is selling a bunch of hybrid-teas (grafted) for $10 such as Blue Girl and Tiffany .. Blue girl only survived 1 winter for me.