EGLANTARIA!!! Just like apples. Wonderful.

Jeri

REINE DES VIOLETTES has leaves that smell like roses and pepper. On sultry summer nights the foliage fragrance wafts quite a bit. Then there are the gorgous soft purple flowers.

APPLEJACK is another rose with fragrant foliage, which is redolent of green apples. It will sometimes repeat so is definately worth investing.

The Floribunda COTILLION / PERFUME PERFECTION has fragrant foliage.

Lastly, the Moss rose SALET has mossy growth along the stems that smell like fresh pine needles. When the buxom pink roses open the combination is very sensual. She is new to me this year and I'm already in love.

Image of REINE DES VIOLETTES by Cactus_Joe at Hortiplex

BTW, I don't where the trait for fragrant foliage comes from. The only species rose I'm aware of that has scented (apple scented to be precise) leaves is R. Eglantaria. I guess the aforementioned roses could have a throw-back gene from that ancient ancestor. I agree with you that when a rose comes along with this feature it sure is a nice bonus.

The other name for Rosa primula is Incense Rose. Its leaves are really fragrant.
Many varieties of Mosses and gallicas, leaves have "pine sap" smell.
Olga

This rose has flowers nearly identical to harisons yellow and the scent is very sweet almost like cotton candy. Definately not apple or pine.
Does harisons yellow have leaves like this? The actual flowers have a faint scent.

Why yes, Rosa foetida and many of its descendants (including 'Harison's Yellow') have a decidedly sweet scent to the growth. This may be one reason why Europeans, long ago, seemed to consider them close relatives. I believe this has filtered down to many modern roses as well as those qualities that derive from gallicas and their kin. 'Gruss an Aachen' is another rose with a particularly lovely sweet scent to its growth (try pinching out a young tip or leaf and smelling that!), but there are probably many others.

Thanks! It is very pleasant. So hmm that means the one I thought was harisons probably isn't because it doesn't have the leaf scent? But the one that hasn't bloomed probably is?
It would be wonderful to have more scented that way then you get the scent even if it is not blooming since they are one time bloomers.

Actually, it's the new growth that possesses the fragrance - as the foliage matures, this quality essentially disappears (and quite rapidly, at that). So if one plant is simply earlier than the other for some reason (warmer spot, or an earlier-blooming clone of the same cultivar, etc.), that could explain the difference you're experiencing. But of course, there's still a lingering possibility that they're not the same variety, but that would take more work to discern. I'd try to eliminate all other factors before settling on finding a different identity for it.

molineux, I'm with you on being in love with Salet. My teeny little transplant arrived last Fall and I didn't have a lot of hope for it lasting the winter. It is, as we write, blooming its fool head off in my backyard and growing like the proverbial weed. The buds smell lovely even two days before the flower opens, and the "moss" has a wonderful balsam scent.