Diane, I wonder if you've considered Bolero. I'm definitely not an expert on scent, but to me it has a traditional rose scent with some fruitiness, as well. I find the rose scent more dominant than the fruitiness, though. Plus, it happens to be super healthy and repeats extremely well.

I think some of the lavenders like Perfume Factory, Violet’s Pride and Angel Face smell very rosy.

Perfume Factory in my garden today

@BenT (NorCal 9B Sunset 14), love that photo! Perfume Factory is such an awesome rose. My family in CA grows it and I think the color, bloom form, and scent are perfection.

One thing to consider if you're looking for an old fashioned rose smell is to grow an old fashioned rose. Most of the Hybrid Perpetuals and related Old Garden Roses have what I consider the classic rose scents. I can smell very few rose scents (too many allergies) but roses like Madame Isaac Periere or Maggie or Sydonie knock my socks off with strong rose scents. A lot of Gallica and Damask and Alba roses are the flowers from which rose-scented perfumes have been created for centuries. Roses like The Apothecary Rose only bloom for a month or so in the season but the fragrance is undeniable.

All the suggestions above are more modern roses with great scents and Ben has a ton of fabulous roses with scents. If the form of the rose that you want is the classic spiraled bloom, that is more common in the modern roses. You can check the David Austin catalog too for roses that have particular kinds of scents. Some of them are "myrrh" which is more licorice scent than old rose, but they classify their roses for the types of scents involved. For me the strongest old rose scent from an Austin is Sharifa Asma.

Just a thought! There are a lot of options.

Cynthia

The most old-fashioned fragrance I can think of is Chrysler Imperial, which my grandmother had in her garden and is one of my favorite roses in mine 

Carla in Sac

Bolero also came to mind for me as a modern rose with a fragrance that's close to older classic rose fragrance, but it's got other notes, too that make it's fragrance a little different (but still good).

Otherwise, I agree with Nippstress. Look into growing a Hybrid Perpetual or Portland Damask old rose. Sydonie, Jacques Cartier, Rose de Rescht, Reine des Violettes all have that classic old rose fragrance, are beautiful old roses and repeat boom. Blanc Double de Coubert is an old Rugosa hybrid that also has a strong delicious old rose fragrance.

Also consider Comte de Chambord and Gertrude Jekyll. Oh wait - you said floribunda. Hmm, those don't match that description. Well, the violets mentioned earlier are good - though perhaps a little more citrus scented.

I can’t think of a floribunda I have that smells like that classic rose fragrance, but if you were prepared to go for a modern shrub then I also vote for Gertrude Jekyll. It has that strong, sweet pure rose smell to me. Some would consider the damask fragrance to be the purest hit of old fashioned rose and more complex than most moderns. My Rose de Rescht is a compact, healthy, repeat blooming damask that has that fragrance in spades, but the blooms are small and not as floriforous as floribundas.