Either Buff Beauty or a Tea-Noisette of the Dijon family I would say. Any more info regarding its size and stature? Does it rebloom (no / somewhat / a lot)?

Thank you Nik, it's actually a quite big bush pending over the street...my fault I did not take any foto of the whole plant. I don't know about weather it repeats blooming or not...so sorry. I know it's hard to put an ID with few info...

I second Nik's Buff Beauty suggestion. The foliage looks like Buff Beauty, too.

Crocus Rose?

I'm for Buff Beauty, also -- looks just like mine and it can become quite large.

Thank you so much for all your answers!! Buff Beauty seems to be the winner. :)

But, "William Allen Richardson" was other name put forward by a friend and they both look quite simililar, don't they? Thank you for your help!!

This does not at all look like the Buff Beauty I had, of which the blooms were larger and with many more petals, and the flower being rather round in outline. However, it's been quite a few years since I've had this rose and my memory may be faulty. I do remember it being difficult to place in a vase, because the flowers were so heavy and large compared to the stem.

Thank you Ingrid, we are in the same zone 9. I just had the same experiance with some flowers I cut from this rose. They are all looking down, but in a strange, not beautiful way. Not a flower for a vase. This puts it closer to Buff Beauty in a way...but, we usally have old roses from French origin in this county. And the blooms in this rose look more informal somehow, than those from pictures I've been seaching of Buff Beauty.

Thank you so much Nik. I will go back to the place some of these days and take some pictures of the whole bush. I'm sure it can help.

In Portugal there is a strong tendency for old roses to be of French origin, not sure exacty why...maybe because of the mediteranian part of France originating roses good for this climate.

I'm not ex-pats (as you may have noticed by my english), but I acknowledge the fact that ex pacts are bringing already a great deal of valuable information of gardening in diferent countries...wish that could be more.

I was thinking Jude the Obscure.

Described as fruity with strong fragrance.

My first thought was 'Mme Jules Gravereaux', but you say the flowers are small to medium, so that's not right... They look big in the photos, and it might help to know more precisely what size the blooms are. Even a hand in the photo can give a sense of proportion.

If you can revisit it with your camera, it might also help to see more of the plant itself- leaves, canes, stipules and aging blooms.

It is pretty delectable, and I hope you were able to get a few cuttings.

Virginia

No, not Mme Jules Gravereaux. That one always produces well formed blooms in the GdD vein. The colour does not really match either since MJG's colour variations range from buff to peachy pink and are more muted.

No, not Mme Jules Gravereaux as I have that rose and it is a much creamier color. I was thinking Jaune Desprez. I don't have it but it looks like some of the pictures on HMF.

It is gorgeous! Have to add Buff Beauty to my collection of hybrid musks, I have hesitated because I'm not much of a yellow-orangy person, but I think this is just glorious!

Anne it's glorious indeed, one of most beautiful rose bush I ever saw, but I'm suspect because I love yellow in roses. Here in Portugal they tend to fade to a pale yellow in the late Spring early Summer blooming. Rose lady hillingdon is one of the few that keep a deep yellow during summer.