Can't think of one that smells exactly like DD, but, in case you don't have Lemon Spice and Garden Party, those are two pastels with marvelous fragrance that might be good in your climate.

To my nose, Granada has a similar fragrance to Double Delight, which makes sense since Granada is one of the parents of Double Delight, along with Garden Party.

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Bella'roma is a gorgeous rose of creamy yellow with light pink tips.....it is the best smelling rose !!!!!!!!!
the blooms are large.
Melody Parfumee is another rose with a wonderful fragrance ,but...it,s not pastel. it,s a beautiful purpley-pink.
carol

The McCartney Rose, a pink HT, has an intoxicating scent but isn't a blend. Scent is really in the nose of the beholder. One way to judge scent is to attend a rose show where many roses can be compared side-by-side. Our local shows have at least one fragrance category.

Public rose gardens are another way to judge multiple roses for scent and the timeframe wouldn't be so narrow.

Thank you for the responses so far!

Petaloid, I guess I've only caught Lemon Spice on a bad day-past peak bloom, wrong time of day, end of season, etc. because I don't remember being that impressed with it, tho I hear a lot about it on these forums.

Curlydoc, I remember Granada is very fragrant, but can't remember just now if I thought it was like DD. Alas, still a bit bright for me.

bouquet kansas, like with Lemon Spice, I don't think I've ever caught Bella'roma at it's best, but I'll keep an eye out for it.

moroseaz-Oh, I go to public gardens, rose shows, private gardens, I'm always sniffing :)

I agree with you about The McCartney Rose, that rose and Gertrude Jekyll smell nearly identical to me. The MacCartney Rose is maybe a bit sweeter scent and it wafts really well, at least in my climate. I'd say that particularly intoxicating fruity damask scent ties with Jude the Obscure's grapefruity scent for my #1 favorite rose fragrance. (Jude is SOOOOOO stingy with those heavenly blooms, but I digress.)

I know so many folks love Double D for the fragrance, so I just wondered if there were some other less well known roses that smell like it?

littlesmokie, trust your memories! I too have found both Granada and Bella'roma and no, they do not! smell like Double Delight. Ironically, they smell similar to each other, just not to DD. It doesn't really make sense either, because as Curlydoc says, Granada is the parent of Double Delight. I found the same thing with Frederick Mistral and the New Zealand Rose, no relation but they have a similar fragrance.

I'd be careful too about both Granada, but in particular, Bella'Roma, they tend to have more mottling in their shading instead of the even smooth coloration of your Double Delight. And I find their petals to be a bit courser. I think Double Delight is a more delicate rose (thinner petals).

Everyone, think very sweet peach and rose water combined! for Double Delight. DD's fragrance is very open and sweet, a very bright fragrance. If the rose doesn't have that peach, fruity undertone then don't recommend it! Tiffany is honey, strawberries and appley, roses like Lincoln and Chrysler Imperial have a darker, rich scent, Granada and Bella'Roma seem to have more of a duskier scent, Melody Parfumee is too lavendery, Fragrant Cloud is very cloying and is also dark with undertones of cinnamon-orange.

If anyone has strong peach-smelling roses then speak up!

April in Paris and Elle smell very similar to each other, they have bright fragrance like Double Delight but both are completely lacking in that distinct fruitiness that is Double Delight.

I have both double delight and bella'roma - there's nothing I've found that has that same fragrance as double delight. But I do much prefer the fragrance of bella'roma to that of double delight and I must confess bella'roma is one of my favorites, not just for fragrance but the rose as a whole, coloring, disease resistance, form, hardiness, etc

To me DD's fragrance has a sharp chemical-type edge to it that is unlike all other roses. Not that I don't like it. I love DD a lot.

Closest to that chemical type note for me is 'Pope John Paul II', but PJPII has more of a citrus tang.

One of the parents of DD, 'Garden Party' has a similiar but sweeter fragrance which I think it inherited from its parent, 'Charlotte Armstrong'--their fragrance is very similiar.

I spent a good half hour yesterday sniffing my way through the garden, comparing rose fragrances. What an amazing variety.

Every nose varies, of course.

CHEMICALLLLL???? unless you're thinking artificial peach flavoring, HoovB, LOL!

In Kansas Gardens, Double Delight smells very bright, like a combination between peaches and rosewater.

Secret Garden Musk Climber has an intoxicating clove scent, but it is a purer clove scent than Double Delight, which also has some floral overtones in it. If you put Secret Garden Musk Climber in the same area as one of the more damask scented roses, like Garden Party, I think the overall combo would come out very close.

(How's that for a fragrance "recipe.")

Kathy

I might go to the Columbus Park of Roses this Sunday. I typically go once a week, but I will be out of town this weekend. If so, I will try to compare Double Delight's scent to various other hundreds in the park, however I can't promise accuracy as it is getting colder in Ohio and not everything may be in bloom.

I just got back from the Park of Roses. Not everything was in bloom but I took about an hour to go around and try to find some roses that were similar in scent to Double Delight. I cna't promise anything as I just broke my nose and it is getting colder in Ohio so it might affect the scents somewhat. Double Delight does have a very sharp top note to it's fragrance which makes it hard to find roses that are similar in scent to it.

Some of the roses that I found to be similar or somewhat similar in scent to Double Delight were:

Summer Fashion-floribunda and ironically enough it looks very similar to Double Delight

Fragrant Hour-hybrid tea that is pinkish orange. Scent is slightly different and doesn't have the top note that DD has.

Crimson Glory-sounds bizarre, but it smelled similar to me although definitely not identical.

Liebeszauber-another bizarre one. The fragrance seems on and off but I smelled this one near the end so maybe my olfactory senses were just fried towards the end. A very pretty red rose though.

French Perfume smells very like Double Delight to me. I've got both bushes and they have flowers at the same stage right now, so I just went outside to compare. :>

They look very similar, though, so if you're after similar-smelling roses that look different... not the best way to go.

I understand hoovb's mention of a chemical smell, because to my nose Double Delight's peachy fragrance has a slight undertone of tire skid-burn, especially when the bloom is aging.
If you don't already grow Secret, that's a very fragrant pastel that might fit into your garden, link below:

Here is a link that might be useful: Secret

And to think you guys gave me such a hard time when I said Pure Poetry smelled like a petroleum byproduct several years ago, lol.

My husband and I visited the Botanical Gardens close to where we live.....It was a cool,cloudy day but we both had fun .....smelling the roses........!
We have 30 roses at home but i havent taken the time to actually decifer the fragrances from another like you all have . Tomorrow i will cut some of ours and bring them in to see which scents i love the best..
Lol.....the tire_skid burn......I do have DD....so will check that out!
Petaloid.....i used to have Secret and really liked it,didnt come back after one winter....
I did smell it at Botanica and ohhhhhh yes,,,very nice fragrance and a delicate pink color....might have to pick me one up next spring....
I am enjoying this thread..thanx
carol

I love all the discussion in this thread! Special kudos to jeffcat for his fragrance efforts and so diligently reporting his findings back to all of us! :)

It is so true that all of our noses interpret scent differently.

I guess "citrusy damask" is what I think of Double Delight, but with a special added something that I think everyone in this thread is trying to put their finger on: sharp top note? chemical? peach? clove? ______?

I actually do agree with hoov who described the unique element of Double Delight as chemical, yet pleasant. I would never have thought of it that way, but I read that and immediately thought yes! weird! I get that too!

But I would never describe Double Delight's fragrance as like peach or clove. (I don't have any rose I'd consider peach scented. I have Lady Hillingdon, in which I definitely detect apricot fragrance and I actually detect that same scent in Apricot Beauty tulips, but it is maddeningly faint.)

kstrong, interesting I have read descriptions of Double Delight having a "spicy" fragrance, but I don't get that clove element from DD at all. I have Secret Garden Musk Climber and love it (For others reading, it is not in fact "musky" at all, but pure clove scent. Yummy!!!)

jeffcat, maybe an interesting connection here. I have several red roses that go through a distinct clove element phase that doesn't predominate overall, but is just there at certain later stages of bloom. (I'm thinking of Gloire de Hollande and Royal William at the moment but I know there are others.) I'm wondering if in mentioning Crimson Glory and Liebeszauber you're picking up the spicy/clove element that others are getting from Double Delight...?

I don't remember the scents of Garden Party, Charlotte Armstrong or Summer Fashion-I clearly need to get sniffing!

I do also love the fragrance of Pope John Paul, very intense citrusy damask to me. And yes Secret is another strongly fragrant rose I grow. I don't know how to describe that fragrance except to say that it's strong ;)

I wanted to say, too, that fragrance comments posted on roses forum have really influenced me to try roses that would have otherwise escaped my notice. Serenasyh, I have seen varieties of roses several times in public places look/smell like nothing, but trusted some experienced posters here and the roses have turned out to be been real fragrance winners. But I only discovered that once they were growing in my own yard and I could enjoy them at all their stages of bloom. So Lemon Spice is still on my list to buy. :)