Hansa- can be smelled from quite a distance when in full bloom
Mme. Legras de St. Germain- my favorite smell
Mme. Ernst Calvat
Marchessa Boccella
Souvenir de la Malmaison

Remy

Madame Alfred Carrier
Blush Noisette

I'm with Olga. My garden is filled with about 97% fragrant roses and I can't remember which smells better at this moment.

Buff Beauty - fer sure
Lady Hillingdon
MAC
Old Port
and the queen of fragrance, cl Etoile d'Holland
Royal Sunset
Oh I'm sorry I could go on forever

Not a rose, but my Meyer lemon is fragrant 12 months of the year.

Carol

Among roses that I have grown or smelled in the past, these were my top favorites:

'Madame Plantier'
Rosa eglanteria (foliage not flowers)
'Blush Noisette'
'Marie Pavié'
'Félicité Parmentier'
'Königen von Danemark'

Bourbons, Noisettes and those cute little Marie Pavies.

Radiance (and all it's sports)
Comte de Chambord (no longer lives here, got the crud)
Blush Noisette (and Champneys' Pink Cluster)
Tamora
Souvenir de St. Anne's

Peter Mayle
Lemon Spice
Emanuel
Jude the Obscure
Comtesse de Chambord

Carla

"Secret Garden Musk Climber"
Any of the Blush Noisette bunch.
"Grandmother's Hat"
R. banksiae banksiae
"Old Town Novato"
"Benny Lopez"
"La Reine" and "Barbara's Pasture Rose"
'Reve d'Or'
'Golden Celebration'

Jeri

Deuil du Dr Reynaud
Old Port
Careless Love
Marie Pavie (wafts)
Dart's Dash

Rosefolly

Climbing Crimson Glory, Jude The Obscure, R. moschata or Secret Garden Musk, Francis Dubreuil, Cl. Etoile de Hollande, Lady Hillingdon, Cymbeline - sorry, more than five, but a variety of scents.

Madame Isaac Perier
Mme Ernest Calvat
Abraham Darby
Allister Stella Gray
Rose de Rescht

Zephirine Drouhin
Tiffany
MacCartney rose
Westerland
I'm waiting for Queen of Denmark and Clotilde Soupert to bloom this year.

florence

Felicia
Abraham Darby
Yolande d'Aragon
Anna de Diesbach
Clotilde Soupert
............ next to the top five
General Jacqueminot
Othello
Compassion
Angel's Camp Tea
MAC

I'm glad to hear Ispahan is that fragrant...it sounds like it can take some heat. I haven't smelled any fragrance in Buff Beauty in about 8 years. Will have to try another sniff.

Linda

Not all necessarily by intensity:
The Prince
Rose de Rescht
Robert Leopold
Tamora
Clotilde Soupert

Excuse the spelling - I know I am torturing these names:

Souvenir de la Malmaison
Colonial White/Sombreuil
Duchesse de Brabant
Clotilde Soupert
Marechal Niel

and Chrysler Imperial and Eugene de Beauharnais and Jenny Duval and Devoniensis

Denise

For OGRs:
Francis Dubreuil
Blush Noisette
Mme. Ernest Calvat
Marchessa Boccella
Maggie
*My nose can not smell Tea.

All of my roses are fragrant, but I'll try....

Yolande d'Aragon
Comte de Chambord
Mme. de Sevigne
Rose de Rescht
Devoniensis

Francis Dubreuil,Mrs. Foley Hobbs, Cressida, Sombreuil and Radio Times are the next 5. Then there's The Radiance roses, Secret Garden Musk....Truly, this is too hard!

Carol

Most of my roses are quite fragrant as that is one of the main criteria by which I choose them. However, I will attempt a top 5 list:

Devoniensis
Rose de Rescht
Marechal Niel
Stanwell Perpetual
Duchesse de Brabant

Buff Beauty is also amazing. It is so hard to choose...

I could easily add five more, and then five more. I'm not alone in this, I'm sure. I have a few roses that are not fragrant, but only a few.

Rosefolly

Can't do this. I can tell you my five favorite scents today:

Devoniensis
Grandmother's Hat
Eugene de Beauharnais
Francis Dubreuil
Tahitian Sunset...(sorry - my modernist tendencies...)

Could also add easily
Felicite Parmentier
Wllm Shakespeare 2K
Mme. Plantier

Francis Dubreuil
Francis Dubreuil
Francis Dubreuil
Francis Dubreuil
Francis Dubreuil

Comte de Chambord
Tradescant
Golden Celebration

I haven't included Hybrid Teas which would be Double Delight and Fragrant Cloud.

You mean today? Any given week it could be any five, except July and August, when the intense heat and light knock out the wannabes, lol. Based on a Phoenix August, Souvenir de la Malmaison, hands down. This week, it's Baronne Prevost, the 8ft monster cloaked in pink. The orange blossoms, freesia and stock are a tough combo to beat for fragrance so the roses have stiff competition during spring.

The McCartney Rose, Christopher Marlowe, Sweet Chariot, Scentimental and Judy Garland are excellent of their classes in this climate. Sweet Chariot in shade will continue to pump out fragrant sprays throughout the year but if I plan to take it somewhere, I haul the entire plant, lol, because the blooms have no longevity.

Francis Dubreuil
La France
Augustine Guinoisseau
Dainty Bess
Souvenir de la Malmaison

I thought steelrose's reply was GREAT! So funny, but so true. Even the northerners should grow Francis in a pot for the fragrance alone.

'Dainty Bess' doesn't have the strongest fragrance, but it's yummy.

'Souvenir de la Malmaison' is very changeable to me. Depending on the time of day and what kind of mood she's in, she can smell like an expensive perfume, a tea rose, beer (yep, Bud Light), or nothing at all. Kinda maddening actually.

'La France' is pure old rose and citrus (lemons).

But the gardenias will be blooming here soon, and I'll forget all about the roses.

Abraham Darby
Angel's Camp Tea
Mme. Joseph Schwartz
Joasine Hanet (Portland of Glendora)
Ebb Tide

Evelyn
St. Cecelia
Abe Darby
Madame Alfred
Pretty Jessica

Jude the Obscure
Yolande d'Aragon
Yves Piaget
William Shakespeare 2000
The Prince

I have several new roses this year that may jump to the top including:
Grandmother's Hat
Eugene de Beauharnais
Francis Dubreuil
Mrs. B. R. Cant
Spice
Evelyn
Le France

1. Frederic Mistral
2. Eglantyne
3. Madame Isaac Pereire
4. Madame Alfred Carrier
5. Evelyn

In that order. I am not rating them as by how strong the scent is with the nose up close - if that were the case, the Jude the Obscure would be at the top. I am also taking into consideration how far the fragrance can be detected. My standard for comparision for any fragrant plant is Sarcoccoca, which is a perfect 10 in my books.

-Mrs. B. R. Cant, General Tartas (used to be called Mme de Tartas) and Lady Hillingdon tie for Tea scent
-Gertrude Jekyll- I'm surprised no one selected this rose
-Francis Dubreuil and Crimson Glory (tied for reds - oh but Maggie is great too)
-Glendora just slightly tops Rose de Resht
-Excellenz von Schubert...Lavender Lassie...I love the scented musks

My 250 roses too are at 99% fragrant... so it's a challenge to select only 5 for fragrance from 247 varieties and a half... Much more easy to choose different classes of fragrance, and grouping 5 roses inside each of these :o)))

For the dry-fruity Tea scent:
'Lady Hillingdon' - 'Mrs B.R. Cant' - 'Général Schablikine'- 'The Pilgrim'- 'Maréchal Niel'

For the sweet China cherry-candy:
'Odorata' - 'Louis Philippe d'Angers' - 'Sophie's Perpetual'- 'Hermosa' - Rosa chinensis var. spontanea

For the fruity fragrance - intoxicating citrus peel scent:
'Abraham Darby' - 'Golden Celebration' - 'Evelyn' - 'Jude the Obscure' - 'Heritage'

For the so unusual but so good:
'Souvenir de la Malmaison' - 'St. Swithun' - 'The Reeve' - 'Blush Noisette' - 'Tamora'

For the old rose scent:
'Mme Pierre Oger' - 'Mme Hardy' - 'Mme Isaac Pereire' - 'Rose de Rescht' - 'Comte de Chambord'

Special choice: 'Mme Alfred Carrière' and 'Lamarque', for the Tea-fruity fragrance that carry far away from the plant filling the air for meters and meters around, Rosa serafinii for tobacco-apple scented leaves, Rosa banksiae banksiae for the delicate fragrance that fills the whole plant, 'Roseraie de l'Hay' for the very distinct and intense "Rugosa" fragrance.

Sorry... neither able to choose only 5 classes of fragrance... :oP

Ciao!
Maurizio

Reine des Violettes
Reine Victoria
rose de rescht
william shakespeare 2000
Yves Piaget
Zéphirine Drouhin

'Tamora'
Rosa eglanteria
'Heritage'
'Reine des Violettes'
'Darlow's Enigma'

in no particular order:

Coral Dawn
Abraham Darby
Evelyn
Sharifa Asma
Jacque Cartier ala Marchesa Bocella

Cyberblue

Almost all my roses have a great scent, so very hard to choose the best. But some of my outstanding favorites are:
1. Etoile de Hollande, climbing
2. Felicite Parmentier
3. Jude the Obscure
4. Madame Ernst Calvat
5. Surpassing Beauty of Woolverstone

Ah, Surpassing Beauty of Woolverstone! I had forgotten that rose. I grew it for a couple of years and loved it, but it succumbed to downy mildew.

I've decided to go ahead and list my second five.

Félicité Parmentier
Musk rose
Frances Dubreuil
Rose de Rescht
Cl Crimson Glory

But my favorite all-time scent is actually lilac, not rose. No scent invokes such a strong response in me as lilac does.

After lilac and rose I love true jasmine, orange blossom, lemon blossom, lily (out of doors only, please) and most herbal scents -- santolina, sage, rosemary, basil.

Rosefolly

Mirandy
Penelope
Clothilde Soupert
Guinevere
Marchese Bochella

Jude the Obscure
Madame Ernest Calvat
Comte de Chambord
Gertrude Jekyll
Louise Odier

And a non-Austin modern: Angel Face

Reine des Violettes
Duchesse de Brabant
Francis Dubreuil
Heritage
Marie Pavie / Marie Daly

Randy

Francis Dubreuil
Chrysler Imperial
Francis Dubreuil
Rosa moschata
Francis Dubreuil

Boy, I'm I glad I ordered Francis Dubreuil this year! :)

I got Francis Dubreuil, too, and am looking forward to the fragrance.

Rosefolly, I wish lilacs would grow here. They'll 'grow' but even if they might bloom, it's no comparison to the ones my folks grew on the family farm in MO. Asiatic lillies don't do well either but doesn't keep us from trying, lol.

Blush Noisette---I don't grow one that compares in fragrance.

Oh my goodness--the place is so rife with fragrant roses that this is ridiculous. I can go in a step from the clean citrus of Margaret Merrill to the myrhh of Sharifa Asma and in another I've for gotten them for Rouge Royal or Peter Mayle or. But I think I should ignore that and just name my faves: Blanc Double de Coubert-bewitching and she even smells at night outside your window.
Dart's Dash for the potpourrie of cloves and rose
Even mor entrancing is Schneekoppe, the lovely pale lavendar rugosa--I love all the rugosas.
Crimson Glory, Oklahoma, Francis Dubreuil--the glorious reds.
Jude the Obscure-grapefruit and rose, yummy.
Sutter's Gold, ripe nectarines, nothing like it.
Irene Churucca, fresh honey--impeccable.
la

I'm a sucker for the reds:
Crimson Glory, Mr Lincoln, Chrysler Imperial, Francis Dubreuil, OK. All are similar, but still at the top of the list.

I'm a rose newbie, but one I don't see mentioned here and that impressed me was Autumn Damask. Lovely and strong scent, my mother has it and I keep meaning to ask for a cutting. Impressively thorny too! Perhaps it goes by another name?

I spotted Blanc double de Courbert on sale at a local nursery for 8.00 and bought her last week. Looking forward to bloomtime.

I bought new David Austin Roses last year, and they all have wonderful scents:

- Spirit of Freedom
- Jubilee Celebration
- Lady Emma Hamilton

And some 'oldies' which I adore:

- Jude the Obscure
- Crown Princess Margareta
- Emanuel
- Sharifa Asma

What fun! I haven't had a chance to evaluate SGMC or Darlow's Enigma yet but so far:
Mme. Isaac Pereire
Maggie
Marie Pavie
Reve d'Or
Felicite Parmentier (I haven't smelled it in 15 years but any rose that memorable deserves a vote!)

Francis Dubreuil
Stanwell Perpetual
Reines des Violettes
Mr. Lincoln
Double Musk Rose

Tiffany and Clotilde Soupert are pretty nice too.

Sandy

Blush Noisette and Francis DuBreuil tied for first place
Mme Isaac and Souvenir de la Malmaison & their sports tied for second place
MAC, Marchesa Bocella, Marie Pavie, and Yolande d'Aragon tied for third place.
Disclaimers:
1.If you're a Jude the Obscure fan you can count his votes. I get so disgusted with DA's that I somehow forgot him.
2. Shameless attempts at stuffing the ballot box for Francis Dubreuil, so I only counted one vote per person and HE WON ANYWAY. Whatta rose!
And an richly-deserved honorable mention for:
Prairie Harvest-- yummmm spicy & complex
White Lady Banks--sublime smell of violets you don't have to lie on your stomach to smell. 2-car garage is minimum size structure for this rose (use next door neighbor's if poss).