I've been experimenting with several different ways to make tea - both green, black and oolong. The best I've come up with is oolong and I did hit on black tea just once. What tea you get depends on your processing methods - green being the easiest of all and not allowed to ferment. Black is the tea that's been fermented the most and oolong is somewhere in the middle. All using camellia sinensis - fresh new soft green growth, bud (smallest leaf at top)and 1-2 beneath the bud as long as they are still soft and new. I also have an old picture frame I've covered with screen wire (small like window screen) to put my tea leaves on to dry. Here's my recipe for green tea: Freshly picked tea leaves Put on screen tray Allow to wilt for about 45 minutes in the sun Steam the leaves (or gently pan saute for about 2 minutes low heat) This stops the fermentation process. Put in a 250 degree oven for about 20 minutes to dry. I want to try skipping the oven drying and try for a dehydrator dry instead - I'll let you know if that works. Store in an air tight container. My recipe for oolong: Freshly picked tea leaves Put on screen tray Allow to wilt for about 20 minutes in sun Tear, roll and crush leaves in your hands to bruise them Let them sit in a shady location and toss them and roll them in your hands every hour for about 4 hours - you can do it longer but usually not shorter periods of time This should result in a bronze look to most of the leaves. I then bring them in and put them in a 250 degree oven for about 15-20 minutes to dry and stop fermentation. Store in airtight container. Both of these make really good tea. As soon as I perfect the "home-method" of black tea - I'll surely post it.

Dont be disappointed. Ilex verticillata bears fruit best with more sun-the fuller the better,as long as soil is not bone dry. Ive had them bear only ok in part sun! One pollinator should be fine-are there enough bees around your property? Watch what you spray. No bees -no berries.Sometimes berries or fruit form then fall due to lack of pollination or attrition due to other stressors. If the plants are not fully rooted out then they might not be able to support fruit yet. In the nursery,plants are constantly fertilized and will fruit as young plants. The Winterthur probably needs to root out and mature to bear. Ive seen them in the nursery bearing on a two foot tall plant-forced by fertilizer!A different variety of the same species should help with fruit set.A variety that is not of the same species usually dosent help with fertilization. Service berries do great in deciduous shade as an under story plant but wont bear as well. Growing them in the woods edge hides their worst flaw-they defoliate early and usually completely. I still love them for their foamy flowers,silver graceful winter form and their bird attracting powers. I have one below the deck that draws catbirds close. I dont care that its stripped. I have cornus alternifolia that I call "bird show bush". The birds line up and take turns-a great show for about three weeks. In choosing plants for shade ,watch for generic lists that label all species ,like viburnum ,as shade plants. Dont forget, some plants cant take root competition well. You can limb up trees to get more light without taking trees down too. Plants that I think might work for you are Viburnum plicatum-the strait species has really heavy berry set in late summer-a good time to shop so you dont get the non-bearing types. Rhototyphus or jet bead. Does well in deep shade but bears better with more sun, has yellow fall color and white flowers. Cotoneaster apiculata or C. horizontalis( can train up against a wall as an espalliar) in more sun. C. dammeri or salicifolia in more shade but both dont have lots of berries. Ilex opaca, bears in sun or shade, nearly immune to deer-gets better with hollytone and age. Ilex golden girl-really beautiful, dark stems and leaves with golden orange berries. Mesearve hybrid-not really deer resistant. Aronia arbutifolia, tough, nice flowers, ok berry set-more in sun, nice upright habit. Ilex pendunculosa, evergreen looks like laurel with cherry like berry. Euonomus coloratus,grows up trees nicely.Berries last through most of winter Euonomus americanus-hearts a bustin looks great right after thanksgiving -takes shade. Lindera benzoin,neat chartreuse flowers very early,dark ruby berries in fall,yellow fall color, black stems.Likes wet shade best. Chionanthus virginicus,foamy white flowers, blue edible berries. Heptocodium miconioides-not a berry ,but a great seed head in fall. Rosa, some species, like geranium and sealing wax have exceptional fruits. Musk roses will bloom in part shade. Vaccineum-blue berry family. Many species, some hard to locate,some evergreen, others great fall color and berries to boot.Cranberry is V.vitis-idea. Ilex glabra has a white berried form I've been wanting to try,they normally are black. Sambucus has some great berried forms,though summer-fall bearing.Elderberry, S.canadensis ,is one of my favorite shrubs. Simular to it is S.nigra,the european elderberry. I love s.microbotrys which has red berries in late summer-in deep shade!There are others in this group which sound intriguing! Perennials;wintergreen gaultheria procumbens,partrige berry, mitchella repens,Lords and ladies arum italicum pictum,Blackberry lily belemcanda chinensis,jack in the pulpit arasaema triphylum,ophipogon japonicus, Iris foetidus. I like viburnum setegerum-large hanging fruits,V.diltatum crabs eye viburnum-small fruits in clusters with black "eye" spot,V.carlesii great scent-some berries -buds dark red hold for a long time in early spring before opening. Trees; I see Sorbus alnifolius recommended as the best mountain ash. Malus,golden raindrops,prarie fire and snowdrift are all scab resistant. All have great fruit set. Nyssa sylvatica, great fall color and small blue black berries. Juniper virginiana has great blue berries.There are seperate male and female plants so best to select a plant in fruit. Juniper chinensis torulosa has good berries too. Evodia danielli is on my want list-blackish purple berries in late summer-fall. Flowers like queen anns lace-not so striking as berries. Cornus-cant beat c. florida for berries-and birds. They descend in one big flock and eat until the tree is stripped-a great show! c. kousa has red dangling balls that cover it late summer-fall. The bark on older trees is its best feature to me. Other cornus species have nice berries in blue and white but c. mas has dark red fruits in late summer that are edible. Crataegus has some berry bearing cultivare-all seem to defoliate by the end of summer-better to site them in sun with air movement. Under a tree "umbrella" also seems to help if trees are high overhead and open to the sun. C. phaenopyrum is spectacular in the winter though! I hope this gives you some hope of a berry good future!

I love spicy chai tea. I don't drink coffee at all, but in the winter, I usually have a cup of hot tea every day to warm me, as well as my hands, up. We were in Ireland in the fall and the tea was so delicious every where. I loved how it came served in a teapot every where we went. Toward the end of our trip, I found this gorgeous teapot at a small pottery shop. At that point, I'd already bought quite a few wool sweaters, an expensive painting, and a few other things at a different pottery shop. I didn't have room left in my bags, and I didn't want to spend the money on shipping this one small thing. I didn't get it. After we got home, I told dh I regretted it - this artist's style was quite unique, very colorful and abstract. He actually called and ordered me one for Christmas - that was quite a surprise! While I normally drink either Tazo, Stash or Trader Joe's tea, I decided I wanted to try using loose tea leaves like I had in Ireland. Finally, just last week, I stopped at a tea and spice shop and bought a bag of Chai and a bag of green tea leaves. I made my first cup on Friday and it was delicious! It was fun serving myself out of my new little teapot. I also really like iced tea but never make it at home. I've been meaning to, but just haven't bothered. It is my drink of choice though if I'm out at a restaurant in the summer. While I do like some sweet tea, I prefer my iced tea unsweetened, with just a touch of sugar and lemon. Daisy, I"ll have to try the Tazo zen tea. I'm still going to use bags for when I'm in a hurry, but my loose tea when I'm relaxing!

FRAGRANT ORCHIDS: MrBreeze compiled this from several notes he kept on some posts. RisingPower1 graciously cleaned it up and put it into proper formating. Should you have any additions, please let me know. Thanks. Michigoose. Acampe papillosa Very Strong - Hyacinth praemorsa Strong rigida Faint Acanthephippium bicolor Strong - Sweet/Candy colmani Strong - Anise javanicum Strong sylhetense Very Strong Acineta caudatus Moderate - Decay Ada keiliana Moderate Aerangis citrata Lemon scent distincta A powerful spicy scent, night, so strong that it may sear the nasal passages if one gets up close with the flower fastuosa Moderate - Day - Medicinal modesta Very Strong - Minty spice mystacidii Moderate - Lilly of the Valley mystacidii Moderate - Unpleasant platyphyllia Ylang-Ylang Perfume pumilio Faint punctata Faint stylosa Evening - Spice verdickii Strong - Sweet Aerides fieldingii Strong flabellata Strong houlletianum Very Strong illustre Strong lawrencieae Strong - Lemon/Spice lindleyanum Moderate - Sweet mitrata Moderate - Sweet odorata Strong, very fresh citrus flower smell quinquevulnerum Strong - Cinnamon roebelinii Strong Amesiella philippinense Said not to be but A. monticola is Angraecum birrimense Strong - Orange Blossom eburneum Is very fragrant after the lights go out eichlerianum With a citrus scent at night florulentum Strong leonis Strong - Night longicalcar Strong - Spice magdalenae Smells strongly of gardenia, more strongly at night scottianum Has a nice evening fragrance, fresh, with some spice. sesquipedale The fresh-floral scent develops over 3-4 nights sesquipedale Strong superbum Moderate - Night vetchii Moderate - Day - Spice Anguloa clowesii Strong - Medicinal ruckeri Strong uniflora Strong - Oil of wintergreen Ansellia africana Strong in Strong Light Arachnis breviscapa Moderate - Macaroons/Almonds calcarata Moderate - Anise flos-aeris Strong - Musk Ascocentrum curvifolium Faint Ascofinetia Emily fragrant Asconada John De Biase 'Fuch's Indigo' FCC/AOS x V tessellata 'Mary Motes' FCC/AOS fragrant Aspasia epidendroides Is very fragrant with a small number of blooms, described as strong, spicy Baptistonia echinata Moderate - Watermelon Barkeria naevosa Moderate - Day - Musk Barlia metlesiciana Moderate - Day - Iris robertiana Moderate - Day - Iris Batemania colleyi Moderate - Day - Unpleasant Bifrenaria atropurpurea Moderate - Sweet harrisoniae Strong - Day - Floral - Exotic letragoia Strong tetagona Strong - Musty Brassavola cordata Strong - Evening cucullata Strong - Evening Intense - laundry detergent with lemon-crisp and sharply clean flagellens Moderate - Night little stars Citrusy also as really sweet root beer late at night nodosa Cineole medicinal, also sweet odour, or Gardenia, scent changes over time Moderate - Night perrinii Strong - Evening tuberculata Faint - Vanilla Brassia allenii Moderate, Honey forgetiana Moderate longissima Moderate, Musty Mem. Fritz Boedeker 'WitchDoctor' Fragrant Rex Sweet warscewiczii Strong Brassidium Wild Warrior "Chieftan" Very fragrant during the day, sometimes too intense, floral and fresh Brassolaeliocattleya Empress Worsley 'Roman Holiday' Nice flower with a pineapple scent Greenwich Strong floral scent(one flower fills a room) similar to phalaenopsis bellina Goldenzelle "Lemon Chiffon" Is almost overpowering Hauserman's Sultan Smells of fresh ground clove Bulbophyllum baileyi Moderate - Fruity beccarii Moderate - Decay/Rotting Meat careyanum Very ripe fruit (not unpleasant) cupreum Rotten salmon curtisii Like an indoor swimming pool(chlorine) echinolabium Partially decomposed rat fascinator Garbage dump fletcheriana Moderate - Cooked Cabbage leysianum Unwashed armpit the day after a hard day at the gym on a hot day macranthum Cucumber and clove. An enchanting, beautiful and fascinating fragrance medusae Moderate - Musky phaleonopsis Week old in the sun dead wildlife moderate - Rotting Meat pictuatum Strong - Day - Watermelon rothschildianum Moderate, Foul Old mushrooms spiesii Cat urine/dead fish Cadetia taylorii Moderate - Day -Vanilla Calandenia carnea Strong - Musky Calanthe kawakamii Strong - Lemon stricta Moderate - Orange Peel Calauthron bicornutum Mixture of fruit and candies Calypso bulbosa Vanilla Catasetum bungerothii Strong candida Methyl salicilate (wintergreen) ciliatum Moderate - Rye bread collare Methyl salicilate (wintergreen) discolor d-carvone(rye bread) expansum Turpentine in the morning, rye bread in the afternoon fimbriatum Moderate - Spice garnettianum Strong gnomus Methyl salicylate (wintergreen) macrocarpum Strong - Mint(wintergreen) oerstedii Strong planiceps Moderate - Spice roseum Methyl cinnimate (cinnamon) sanguineum Turpentine and garbage tenebrosum Warm resinous fragrance with a sharp citrus note - Moderate - Spice/Citrus Cattleya aclandiae Faint - Spicy amethystoglossa Moderate - Spicy aurea Moderate - Lemon Bahinia Morning - Faint candy like smell bicolor Faint deckorii (I have var. 'Brecht' light, citrussy, scent in the morning. Fairly strong. Michigoose) delossiana Strong guttata Strong - Day - Sweet loddigesii Benzyl acetate (jasmine) luteola Very rich, strong floral Melinda Rose Weber 'Douglas' Strong perfume-sweet fragrance between 2 and 5 in the afternoon Netrasiri Beauty Fragrant percivaliana Moderate - Musky triavaci Moderate - Day - Cinnamon velutina Strong warscewiczii Benzyl acetate (jasmine) Chamaengis hildebrandtii Smell similar to what I canonly describe as "barn" hariotiana Smell similar to what I can only describe as "barn" Cirrhopetalum makoyanum Moderate - Musty medusae Strong - Musty Clowesia rosea Vicks Vapo rub in the morning and cinnamon in the afternoon Cochleanthes amazonica (so I've heard, but I never detected it my plant) Coelia triptera Moderate - Lily of the Valley Coeloglossum viride Faint Coelogyne corymbosa Moderate - Spice cristata Moderate - Spice/Hyacinth densiflora Moderate - Musk fimbriata Moderate - Musk flaccida Strong - Unpleasant - Musk huetneriana Moderate - Musk lamellata Strong lentiginosa Strong massangeana Faint mooreana Faint mossiae Strong - Day - Floral nitida Strong - Lilac/Hay speciosa Moderate - Musk sulphurea Faint testacea Faint tomentosa Moderate - Musk trinervis Strong Colmanara Wildcat 'Doris' Has a faint sweet-perfume Cuitlauzina pendula Strong Cycnoches chlorochilon Benzyl acetate (jasmine)Penetrating jasmine fragrance It can easily be noticed from thirty feet away, and is an unusual, fruity/antiseptic odor chlorochilon x herrenhusanum Similar smell to chlorochilon, not as strong cucullata Moderate - Honey pentadactylon Moderate - Chocolate ventricosum Benzylacetate (jasmine) Strong - Ripe Bananas Cycnodes Wine Delight 'Jem' FCC/AOS Musky cherry kool aid Wine Delight Jem FCC/AOS Is almost overpowering with it's grapey perfume. Starts somewhere around pickled housefly legs, transits through French whorehouse perfume, and finally manages a nice spicy, grapey fragrance Cymbidium albuciflorum Faint atropurpureum Moderate - Coconut oil canaliculatum Moderate - Sweet cochleare Strong ensifolium Strong goeringii Moderate - Floral kanran Moderate - Lemon Peel mastersii Moderate - Almonds rubrigemum Moderate - Honey sinense Faint - Afternoon - Raspberry/Rose syave Moderate - Sweet tracyanum Strong - Peach variciferum Moderate - Lemon Peel virescens Moderate - Vanilla Cypripedium acaule Faint - Day - Watermelon calceolus Strong - Day - Musk candidum Faint - Day himalaicum Strong - Day - Watermelon montanum Moderate - Day - Sweet parviflorum Moderate - Day - Musty/Rose pubescens Moderate - Day - Sweet/Rose Cyrtorchis arcuata Is sweetly scented at night Degarmoara Winter Wonderland 'White Fairy' Fragrant Starsand Bars Smells like ground pepper Tahoma Glacier Smells likeground pepper Dendrobium adae Strong - Day - Sweet aemulum Strong agregatum Strong - Day - Sweet/Honey album Faint amabile Smells like orange scented soap(pink form) amoenum Moderate - Violets anceps Faint anosmum Perfumes the air with a scent of raspberries anosmum Strong - Raspberries/Rhubarb Banana Royale Like bananas what else? Sweet honey touch of banana, it filled the room beckleri Moderate - Cinnamon brymerianum Strong canaliculatum Strong candidum Faint cruentum Faint Ivory soap crystallinum Strong delicatum Moderate - Day - Spicy discolor Moderate - Honey draconis Strong -Tangerine Emma White Very subtle, delicate floral scent, fresh and light engae Strong - Sweet falcorostrum Moderate - Orange Blossom The fragrance was the sweetest I've ever had the pleasure of smelling, a combination of jasmine and orange blossoms finisterrae Faint fleckeri Strong - Spice/Musk forbesii Moderate - Honey formosum Strong friedericksonianum Strong fuscatum Strong fusiforme Moderate - Sweet harveyanum Moderate - Honey johannis Strong kingianum Moderate - Spicy On the floral side, very potent leonis Strong - Vanilla loddigesii Moderate - Honey magnum Strong Afternoon - Honey/Wheat monophyllum Strong - Lily of the Valley moorei Moderate - Lemon moschatum Moderate - Musk musciferum Moderate - Sweet/Vanilla nobile-day/faint/berries papilio Moderate - Hawthorn parishii Moderate - Raspberry/Rhubarb primulinum Strong - Cowslip ruppianum Strong scabrilingue Strong - Jasmine Sea Mary 'Snow King' Flower-y (maybe roses?) senile Moderate - Lemon speciosum Strong - Day - Spicy/Fruit spectabile Faint striolatum Moderate - Honey superbum Strong - Grapes tetrogonum Moderate - Vanilla transparens Strong trigonopis Faint unicum Faint - Day - Orange Soda Williamsonii Moderate - Sweet WonderNishi Nice Yellow Magic 'Festival' Citrus-y Dendrochilum arachnites Moderate - Day - Cinnamon aurantiacum Strong - Day bicallosum Moderate - Day - Musty/Sweet cobbianum Strong - Day - Spicy/Citrus filiforme Moderate - Day formosanum Moderate - Day glumaceum Strong - Day - Sweet/Citrus gracile Moderate - Day latifolium Moderate - Day longifolium Moderate - Day magnum Moderate - Day - Spice Filled the room with a not unpleasant smell of cut hay Dendrophylax funalis Moderate - Unpleasant Diaphananthe fragrantissima Is very fragrant, another example was described as faint pellucida Moderate - Sour/Spicy rutila Strong Disa cooperi Cloves crassicornis Strong Diuris alba Strong palustris Faint - Spice Dracula bella Faint chestertonii Faint - Fungus Mushroom-like scent polyphemus Interesting scent Drakaea glyptodon Moderate - Foetid Dressleria eburnea Strong Dryadella edwallii Strong - Anise Drymonanthus nutile Moderate - Vanilla Doritaenopsis Earth Star Very mild Encyclia albo-purpureum Moderate, Vanilla alboxanthine Strong alta Moderate, Sweet atropurpurea Strong - Day - Sweet - Floral brassavolae Faint - Sweet Smells like lemon pledge for the first hour or so a new bloom is open capartianum Moderate, Sweet chimborazoensis Faint - Medicinal chondylobulbon Strong - Marzipan/Spice citrina Moderate - Anise confusa Faint cordigera Strong - Day - Floral/Spice or rose-like fragrance also as the spicy scent of cinnamon falcata Moderate - Sweet/Vanilla fausta Moderate-Sweet/Astringent flabelifera Strong - Day fowliei Moderate - Tea fragrans Strong - Day - Vanilla/Wood or Honey and vanilla in the mornings at the very beginning, disinfectant wafer in bottom of urinal" to "wintergreen lifesaver" to now... warm Gingerbread gallopavina Moderate - Tea lancifolia Has got to be the strongest smelling and most pleasant under my conditions, fragrance similar to baby powder and vanilla lancifolia Has a spicy fragrance Moderate - Spice mariae Faint microbulbon Faint odoratissime Strong - Spice oncidioides Strong osmantha Strong patens Strong - Spice phoenicea Moderate - Milk Chocolate That smells like chocolate - much better than Sharry Baby plicata Moderate - Chocolate radiata Strong - Spice Very strong but appealing Spicy floral fragrance. Slightly unpleasant at end also as a powerful licorice scent. Like the Aerangis, it can be too much if too close, but it fills an area and does it in winter when it's most appreciated. Plus, it's strongest during the day, so it's a good companion for the Aerangis randii Faint- Chocolate stellata Moderate - Honey subulatifolia Strong tampenses A strangely pleasant, musky sort of scent triflorum Moderate - Lemon also Moderate - Day - Vanilla Cream also tripunctata Miniature, and highly fragrant A nifty mini with an anise (black licorice) fragrance vespa Moderate - Vanilla widgrenii Strong Epidendrum agathosmum Moderate - Sweet alatum Moderate - Spice ancepts Strong, Dried hay or grass also Moderate - Anise canopseum Strong chimborazoensis Ranges from wintergreen lifesavers to just sweet smelling ciliare Moderate - Day - Sour difforme Moderate - Medicinal diffusum Strong diotum Moderate - Elder Leaves falcatum Jasmine in the morning to that of Easter lilies or narcissi in the afternoon Moderate - fragrans Strong fucatum Faint heterodorum Faint - Sweet huebneri Moderate - Evening Lily ilense Moderate - Pumpkin ionosmum Moderate - Violets mirabella Moderate - Lemon nocturnum Moderate - Night, Menthol odoratissimum Strong - Sweet parkinsonianum Strong - Night plicatum Strong - Chocolate polyanthum Moderate - Tea/Cowslip purum Moderate - Sweet stamfordianum Moderate - Violets variegatum Moderate - Sweet wallisii Moderate - Honey/Musk Eria merrellii Faint myristicaeformis Moderate - Sweet pannea Moderate - Vanilla vittata Moderate - Sweet/Pungent hyacinthoids-day/faint/gross cant describe very unpleasent Erycina echinata Moderate - Grass Eurychone rothschildiana Moderate - Sweet Evota harveyana Moderate - Sweet/Soap Flickingeria fimbriata Moderate - Watermelon Eria hyacinthoides Smells like something nasty has died underneath thestaging multiflora Stale damp basement Gastrochilus calceolaris Faint Gastrodia sessamoides Moderate - Cinnamon Genoplesium firmbriatum Moderate - Day (stronger when warm) - Lemon Gomesa crispa Moderate - Primrose Gongora armeniaca Strong - Apricot chocoensis Chocolate/vanilla galeata A strong spiced orange scent maculata Moderate - Chocolate/Spice quinquenervis Eugenol(cloves) or Linalool (lily-of-the-valley) quinquenervis Methyl cinnimate (cinnamon) similis Filled my house with a cinnamon &clove aroma tricolor Strong - Spice Goodyera atrorubens Moderate - Vanilla Gymnadenia conopsea Moderate - Spice odoratissima Strong - Vanilla Habenaria erichmichaelii (aka Hab rhodocheila v pink) Has a fragrance not unlike some types of hand lotion fimbriata Moderate - Lavender odontopetalata Have very powerful sweet night fragrances repens Have very powerful sweet night fragrances also Moderate - Night Haraella retrocalla Moderate - Day - Sharp Mint odorata/retrocalla Sweet lemony scent Herminium monorchis Moderate - Honey Houlettia species Are all fragrant and smell very nice, a nice floral smell Horichia species Are also fragrant and very cool Huntleya species burtii Smell nice Ionopsis satyrioides Moderate - Lemon/Citron Iwanagara Appleblossom Smells, not surprisingly, like apple blossoms also described as Gorgeous floral smell Jumellea augustifolia Gardenia comorensis Fragrant confusa Daytime fragrant, delightful fresh and spicy, better than J.comorensis filicornoids Moderate - Day - Violets gracilipes Moderate - Sweet major Moderate - Night rigida Strong Laelia albida Moderate - Primrose anceps 'Irwins' Smells like a stale sponge gouldiana Faint - Spice primaveralis Moderate - Musk pumila Moderate - Day - Sour/Unpleasant purpurata Licorice also described as spicy. rubescens Moderate - Day - (stronger when warm) - Wintergreen Leptotes bicolor Fragrant unicolor Moderate - Sweet/Vanilla Light nice fragrance Liparis reflexa Moderate - Sour/Unpleasant Smells kind of like cat urine Luisa megasepala Moderate - Sour/Unpleasant Lycaste aromatica Strong - Day - Cinnamon, or sugary like juicy fruitgum aromatica Spicy scented barringtoniae Moderate - Lemon brevispatha Moderate - Fresh Apples ciliata Moderate - Night - Fresh Apples cinnabarina - Moderate - Night cruenta Strong - Cinnamon or a less spicy, more floral fragrance deppei Faint - Peppermint lanipes Strong leucantha Moderate - Rich/Savory locusta Moderate - Apples Has the coloring and scent of a granny-smith apple longiscapa Moderate - Soap powellii Strong skinneri Faint suaveolens Moderate - Cinnamon xytriophora Faint Lyperanthus forrestii Strong saveolens Strong - Musk Masdevallia angulata Faint - Day - Sour/Unpleasant (angulifera-day/faint/grapes and solvent.) caesia Moderate - Day - Fresh Urine civilis Moderate - Day - Sour/Unpleasant estradae Moderate - Citrus falcago Moderate - Lemon foetens Moderate - Sour/Unpleasant gheisbreghtiana Strong glandulosa Smells deliciously of sweet cloves also desbribed as moderate - Day - Sweet Tarts guayanensis Moderate - Sweet livingstoneana-day/soapy mejiana Moderate - Day - Spice polysticta Strong serna-all the time/variable fish or latex unpleasent tovarensis Moderate - Sweet triangularis Repugnant smell may leave the tongue/nose with numb sensation Maxillaria densa Moderate - Day - Spice desvauxiana Moderate - Watermelon friedrichsthallii Moderate - Rancid Urine haematoglossum Faint hedwigi Faint - Egg Whites inaudita Faint luteo-alba Moderate - Sweet maleolens Moderate - Coconut/Moth Balls ochroleuca Apricots picta Strong - Sweet ringens Moderate - Sweet rufenscens Moderate - Vanilla sanderiana Moderate - Sweet seymouriana Moderate - Lemon striata Has an appealing sweet smell tenuifolia Strong - Day - Coconut also as Suntan oil, coconut fragrance, coconuts and vanilla valenzuelana Moderate - Spice Meiracyllium gemma Moderate - Cinnamon trinasutum Moderate - Day - Cinnamon wendlandii Another very nice mini with a cinnamon fragrance Miltonia Hybrids Miltdm. Pupukea Sunset 'Hawaii' Fragrant Miltdm. Bartley Schwartz 'Highland' Fragrant bouquet of wildflowers Miltdm. Hawaiian Sunset Smells to me like moldy socks Miltdm. Issaku Nagata 'RL. Hammer' Mild, pleasant vanilla Miltassia CM Fitch 'Isumi' Peppery, slightly sweet scent. Fill a room at night. Slightly less in the day Milt Hurricane Ridge 'Sylvia' Smells spicy and citrus like Milt Bert Field 'Eileen' Pretty stinky...rotting fruit smell Miltassia Darkstar 'Darth Vader' Peppery Miltassia Royal Robe 'Jerry's Pick' HCC/AOS Cherry jello Miltassia Webmaster 'Shelob' Nice floral Miltonia bluntii Moderate Miltonia flavexcens Moderate - Day - Grassy Miltonia warscewiczii Fragrant Miltoniopsis phalaenopsis Moderate - Day - Floral Miltoniopsis vexillaria Faint - Day Miltoniopsis warscewiczii Moderate - Day - Floral Mormodes aromatica Moderate - Vinegar buccinator Moderate - Spice calceolatum Faint - Spice maculata Strong ocanae Strong sinuata Moderate - Sharp - Spice tuxtlensis Moderate - Jasmine unica Moderate - Savory Mystacidium braybonae Faint capense Strong, musky smell after dark gracile Moderate - Night tanganyikense Faint venosum Strong, musky smell after dark Neofinetia falcata Strong - Night - Vanilla Ice Cream also as strong vanilla candy sort of scent...like vanilla, jasmine, and pina colada Yum richardianum Strong - Night-- Vanilla Ice Cream Neostylis Lou Sneary Wonderful compelling fragrance Nervilia chinensis Moderate - Musk/Cocoa pectinata Moderate - Camphor Nigritella nigra Moderate - Vanilla Notylia barkeri Faint pentachne Faint Octomeria oxychila Faint Odbrs. Kenneth Biven Santa Barbara Pleasantly fragrant during the afternoon hours Odontioda Debutante 'P & P' Sweet and yummy Odontoglossum constrictum Moderate - Hawthorn crispum Moderate - Primrose crocidipterum Moderate - Hawthorn edwardi Moderate - Violets harryanum- day/very strong/floral with peach almost unpleasent up close Isler's Abenglut Fragrant maculatum Faint pendulum Moderate - Lemon platychulium Moderate - Day - Floral praestans Moderate - Citrus pulchellum Moderate - Sweet/Hyacinth Oeoniella polystachys Strong - Night - Sweet/Spice Oerstedella pseudowallisii Strong - Sweet/Spice Oncidium auriferum Faint calochilum Moderate - Lemon/Roses cheirophorum Strong - Day - Floral/Lemon cheirophorum It is quite stinky, kind of like lemon with hints of vomit and sweet undertones crispum Faint - Musty - Daffodils divaricatum Moderate - Musty enderianum Moderate - Lilacs Gold Dust Reeks of cat urine incurvum Strong lanceanum Moderate - Vanilla Strong like spring bulbs maculatum Moderate - Mushrooms marshallianum Faint ornithorhynchum Strong - Day - Chocolate Florally chocolate or like white chocolate and vanilla much like Sharry Baby osmatochilum Strong - Lilacs ramosissimum Faint 'Sharry Baby' Vanilla or chocolate tigrinum Faint - Citrus/Violets Twinkle (mostcolors/varieties) Not as nice as the ornithorhynchum Twinkle Wonderful Ophrys chesteri Faint fuciflora Faint - Cyclamen muscifera Moderate - Musk Orchis morio Moderate - Sweet pallens Moderate - Cloves Ornithocephalus inflexus Faint myrticola Moderate - Lemon Ornithophora radicans Moderate - Day - Honey radicans Similar to the Enc. tampenses but not as strong Osmoglossum pulchellum Strong - Hyacinth Paphiopedilum armeniacum Faint - Daffodil delenatii Is generally said to smell of (synthetic) raspberry as well. Clones of both species vary in strength and specific scent - I have a delenatii that smells to the best of my description like red Kool-aid. also like citrus blooms Faint - Pepper emersonii Mixture of chocolate and a compost pile also as Moderate - Chocolate fairrieanum Faint - Day - Stale Urine Joyce Hasagawa A powerful old-fashioned rose scent emerges kolopakingii Intense scent of honeysuckle also desc. as Moderate - Honeysuckle Lynleigh Koopowitz Pleasant fragrance of raspberries malipoense Very powerful raspberry fragrance Fruity Moderate Day Phalaenopsis amabilis Faint - Day amboinensis Moderate - Day - Musk bellina Strong - Day - Floral Bright Peacock 'Sweet Fragrance' Smells like a combination of citrus with orange being the most prevalent corningianna Strong and pleasant also Faint Gene Wentz Faint flower-y gigantea Moderate - Day/Sporadic - Orange Peel Happy Girl In good light has a nice light floral scent, pleasing javanica Moderate - Violets lomita "dawn" -day/medium/ jasmine lueddemanniana Moderate - Day mannii Faint - Day very faint/ jasmine mariae Faint - Day modesta Strong - Day Orchid World 'Joe' Rosy citrus pulchra Moderate - Day schilleriana Fragrant speciosa Strong - Day stuartiana Faint - Day - Coffee venosa Kinda smokey vestalis Moderate - Day violacea Moderate - Day - Floral Perfume violacea And many of it's crosses has a light but lovely fragrance, 2 open buds can fill a room. wilsonii Moderate - Day zebrina fragrant Pholidota articuata Moderate - Musk/Chocolate chinensis Moderate - Not all plants fragrant clemensii Faint imbricata Moderate - Musk, Not all plants fragrant mediocris Moderate - Sweet pallida Faint pectinata Faint ventricosa Moderate - Sweet Pabstia jugosa Moderate - Watermelon Paraphalaenopsis denevei Faint labukensis Moderate - Cinnamon laycockii Moderate - Lemon Grass Pescatorea cerina Strong - Day dayana Moderate - Day klabochorum Strong - Day lehmannii Moderate - Day wallisii Moderate - Day - Lemon Phaius amboinensis Faint - Day callosus Moderate - Day celebicus Moderate - Day daenikerii Moderate - Day - Sour/Unpleasant flavus Moderate - Day tankervilleae Moderate - Day Phragmipedium schlimii Moderate - Berry Pleione formosana Faint humilis Faint lagenaria Faint maculata Moderate - Apple pogonioides Moderate - Spice/Primrose pricei Moderate speciosa Faint Pleurothallis elegans Strong gelida Moderate - Sweet racemiflora Moderate - Pungent xanthophthalma Faint Polystachya bicarinata Faint hollandii Moderate - Roses melliodora Moderate - Honey ottoniana Faint phalei Moderate - Orange Blossom Potinara Burana Beauty 'Burana' AM/AOS Fragrant Dal's Endeavor (Potfree spirit x c. walkeriana) Fragrant Pterygodium alatum Strong, pungent smell caffrum " " catholicum " " Prasophyllum australe Strong - Sweet cucullatum Moderate - Sweet elatum Moderate - Sweet scent when warm fuscum Moderate - Sweet Rangaeris amaniensis Strong - Vanilla musicola Moderate - Sweet Restrepia antennifera Smells like banana peels, smells like mushrooms Rhipidoglossum xanthopollinium Moderate - Fermented Fruit Rhizanthella gardneri Moderate - Sweet Rhyncholaelia digbyana An incredible combination lemon/soapy fragrance digbyana Strong lemon-like perfume digbyana Strong - Day - Lemon digbyana (citronellol, rose-like) digbyana Citrusy digbyana Linalool (lily-of-the-valley) glauca Emits a rosy-floral scent glauca Strong - Day - Lemon Rhynchostylis coelestis Moderate - Sweet cordatum-day/faint/ interesting digbyana Strong - Day - Lemon flauca Strong gigantea Strong - Spicy retusa Strong - Citrus Rodriguezia candida Moderate - Citron decora Faint Rumrillara Sugar Baby 'Kultana' Caramel candy Sarcochilus hartwegii Moderate - Honey virescens Moderate - Vanilla Satyrium foliosum Smells like quinces neglectum Sweet smell Schlimia jasminodora Moderate - Jasmine trifida Strong Sedirea japonica Strong - Day - Floral Perfume (very lemony to my nose, pleasant Michigoose) Seidenfadenia mitrata Strong - Candy Sobennikoffia humbertiana Moderate - Spice robusta Moderate - Spice Sobralia fragrans Moderate - Sweet Spathoglottis unguiculatum Moderate - Grape Spiranthes exigua Faint gracilis Faint spiralis Faint - Musty Stanhopea bucephalus Strong - Resiny calceolus Moderate - Eucalyptus calceolus Strong candida Moderate - Sweet cirrhata 1,8-cineole (Vicks) connata Moderate - Spice costaricences Nutmeg eburnea Moderate - Jasmine florida Mothballs gibbosa Moderate - Day grandiflora Benzyl acetate (jasmine) graveolens Moderate - Day - Faeces hernandezii Strong - Fruit insignis Strong - Day - Cinnamon jenishiana Moderate - Day - Cinnamon nigroviolacea Strong - Day oculata Moderate - Vanilla occulata Chocolate occulata Vanilla panamense Moderate - Day - Sweet/Mint panamensis Chocolate mint reichenbachiana Moderate - Jasmine reichenbachiana Benzylacetate (jasmine) saccata Moderate - Day - Methyl cinnimate(cinnamon) tigrina Very strong - Day - Vanilla tigrina var nigroviolacea Chocolate vanilla tricornis Moderate - Day - Jasmine tricornis Benzyl acetate (jasmine) wardii Strong - Day - Chocolate/Medicinal Thrixspermum formosanum Moderate - Morning - Vanilla sarmatarii Moderate - Morning - Vanilla Thunia marshalliana Moderate - Oranges Trichopilia fragrans Strong - Almonds suavis Moderate - Hawthorn tortilis Moderate - Licorice Tuberolabium kotoense Strong - Day - Honey, miniature and highly fragrant odoratissimum Strong - Day Trichoglottis geminata Pleasant powerful fragrance philippinensis Pleasant powerful fragrance Vanda amesiana Very strong pleasant scent, between hyacinth and gardenia Bensonii x V. Limbada You can smell it several feet away coeruea Moderate - Not all fragrant crista Faint denisoniana Moderate - Early Evening insignis Strong lamellata Pleasant powerful fragrance merrillii Strong - Spicy merrillii x V. Pak Chong Day - fragrant changes over time, soapy, Dr.Pepper or maybe cinnamon, very subtle pumila Strong tessellata Strong tricolor Strong - Day - Grape/Spice Vanilla aphylla Faint calopogon Faint polylepis Faint - Vanilla pompona Moderate - Heliotrope Fruit Vascostylis Lou Sneary Cotton candy Wilsonara Marie Elle Heavenly Beautifully fragrant Susy Scarlett Passion AM/AOS Beautifully fragrant Xylobium centroglossum Strong elongatum Faint - Cucumber hyacinthianum Moderate - Hyacinth palmifolium Faint squalens Has a nice floral odor to it Zygopetalum crinitum Strong - Carnation intermedium Rosy/lilacfragrance mackayi Strong scent of jonquils mackayi Strong - Day - Grape Soda mackayi A fresh floral smell, excellent fragrance maxillare Moderate - Day - Floral Redvale fire kiss A semi-cloying hyacinth like scent triste That smells of fresh pepper