FRAGRANT CLOUD ROSE
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Fragrant Cloud Fragrance
Comments (18)I agree with Curlydoc. Fragrant Cloud has that touch of clove in it but even more so it smells like orange rind intensity. And I cook rose petal jam with Fragrant Cloud and boy does it punch a kicker (tastes like ultra sweet orange-cinnamon)! However! Fragrant Cloud only carries about 2' away (you can smell it at that distance) whereas you take one Lincoln and you can smell that one Lincoln blossom 8'-15' away. Only when Lincoln blooms do the bees start coming to my garden. When visiting other rose gardens, I enjoyed Tiffany, New Zealand, Frederick Mistral, but theirs have a very pretty smell. Honey-sweetness I call it, from the "honey-family". New Zealand and Frederick Mistral have more of a perfume powdery smell though, more duskier whereas Tiffany is more appley. Lincoln is by far the strongest smelling rose (per one bloom) that I have ever smelled. And I still love his fragrance the best out of all roses I have encountered. It is the ultimate Chanel No. 5 I call it. No other matches it. It is a true perfume-distilled and one can't describe it because it is the ultimate rose smell, very rich deep and velvety. But granted I only test it against the common Austins. I have never smelled any truly rare, Antique roses. However I suspect that some OGRs may smell like my Penny Lane. My Penny Lane rose when it is past maturity looks like an OGR and its blooms last a super-long time-It has a beautiful sweet Gardenia scent-I've never smelled a Gardenia-smelling rose ever! so perhaps OGRs smell like this? I think it's a real shame that OGR people don't visit our regular Rose forum. It could really open our eyes to more fragrances! Austin roses are sometimes myrrh-clovish. But more commonly they are fresh and light in aroma- more fruity-light, very pleasing, but no not heavy with intense intonations. I found one Agnes Rugosa that smelled as lovely and light as any! Austin! A beautiful rose-- I just loved Agnes and it taught me to start thinking about rugosas. Unlike HoovB I always thought Double Delight bright and sweet and lovely-natural, not chemical. If you want a chemical-smelling rose, HoovB, try my Aromatherapy rose! J&P's so-called most fragrant rose. It maintains its cut fragrance for a super long time, but man! it does smell like a manufactured perfume. It has strong fragrance, but it is also heavy like artificial fruit, and!!! strangely it never carries or wafts in the breeze. At the garden, Double Delight did not waft in the breeze either. So again, a strongly fragranced rose may not waft in the breeze. All strongly fragranced roses are not created equal. To be honest, I'm a bit surprised that no one has mentioned Zephirine Drouhin.......See MoreTea Rose Growers....??
Comments (10)I have space issues so I grow teas and chinas in pots over here. If you get them own root they don't get as large which helps when growing in pots. I get my roses via mail order. Duchesse du Brabant, Lady Hillingdon, Clementina Carbonieri and Tipsy Imperial Concubine are good teas that do well in pots for me. I am planning on adding Francis Dubreuil, Baronne Henriette de Snoy and Etoile de Lyon or Perle des Jardins. Louis Phillippe and Cramoisi Superieur are two great chinas that I have in pots too. Check out the Antique Rose Forum here on GW for more suggestions and nurseries to order these great roses for our climate....See MoreAnyone have pix of Fragrant Cloud next to Hot Cocoa?
Comments (11)I have both roses pretty close to each other. They start out somewhat the same. When the sun is shining on them they both glow with that orange red fire. The difference is in how they age. Fragrant Cloud (on the right) turns more pink and Hot Cocoa (on the left) turns darker with purplish edges. Of course Hot Cocoa doesn't have the sweet aroma that Fragrant cloud does, and I wouldn't recommend planting them right next to each other because you wouldn't really be able to tell them apart except at certain times of the day and at certain phases of bloom......See MoreIs this rose mosaic? Or is it something else?
Comments (2)That doesn't look like RMV. The leaves with the yellowed veins looks like some kind of deficiency. The others look like black spot to me....See More- 3 years ago
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3 years agoI love Fragrant Cloud.
It's a special variety I first received as a gift from my grandparents years ago while they were RV'ing across the southern states.
I've never had FC be pink; it's generally a very orangey-red with deeper reverses. In cool autumn weather, it CAN get quite red, though. A rather difficult colour to appropriately capture.
Normal colour (this season) and much redder (late autumn, 2019)
Steven
Watch for black spot!
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Yours looks a bit different from the ones I have seen so far in terms of the flower shape and the number of flowers on one stem, but the colour is similar. I forgot that I started this thread before purchasing, thanks to everyone who shared their photos! @Bent you’re absolutely right! They’re never hot pink. I took another trip to the store and I found a flowering coral rose next to the hot pink. Turns out, they were both labelled as “first prize” but another that was exactly the same, was tagged as FC. I brought this to their attention and it was quickly sorted! Seil thank you for your input also! When I got it, there was an old bloom on it that was coral, the next day, a new one opened and it was exactly like you said! The smell is WONDERFUL! I stop and get a good deep whiff each time I’m passing it hehe
3 years agolast modified: 3 years agoI've had Fragrant Cloud for about five years now and it's about 4x4 ft. Here's a bush shot from two years ago when it was about half the size.
It now blooms in loads of sprays like the one at the top of the bush. It's so hard to get an accurate photo of the color but the one above is pretty good. There's also a lighter version as shown below which isn't exactly coral but it's lighter.
More pics below.- 3 years ago
These might be a bit redder than the true color.
FC is consistently fragrant and blooms almost continuously.
Ann - 3 years ago
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BenT (NorCal 9B Sunset 14)