I have a very mediocre sense of smell. I can barely detect fragrance on any Camellias I have been around, even ones that are supposed to be fragrant like 'Scentsation.' For fragrance, I need knock-you-down shrubs like Gardenias, Tea Olive, Calycanthus, etc.

Sasanquas I encounter here perfume a fairly large area around them, especially when the weather is quiet and the shrub is large. (Note that the 2 cultivars mentioned so far in this thread are not sasanqua camellias). They do vary though:

"just about all the sasanquas are scented, some quite strongly...some camellia fanciers profess to dislike the scent, which more truly resembles a freshly opened packet of tea than the so-called tea-scented roses do" (The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Camellias)

A very nice sasanqua type for fragrance is Fragrant Pink. It has a nice "bubble gum" type fragrance. I found only one at a local nursery, but was able to order others at the Camellia Forest. I don't see it on their website, but was able to order it after inquiring by phone.

Hana Jiman
Kramer's Supreme
Stephanie Golden

Oops! You wanted sasanquas only so take out Kramer's.

'daydream' is fragrant....but is typically not mentioned in books/lists as being so.

I find my Pink Snow is fragrant, but, as much as I love the flowers, I don't care for the scent. It smells like funeral flowers to me.
I mention it because everyone's nose percieves smell differently and someone else might like it.
Mone doesn't perfume the area, I have to get my nose right down in the flower to smell it, but there is a definite fragrance.

OK - I take it back. My pathetic nose CAN detect the fragrance on C. sasanqua. I was browsing through a batch of 'Setsugekka' last night and really caught the fragrance. Very pleasant! It seems like 'Setsugekka' may be stronger than some of the others.

Just another reason to plant gazillions of Camellias!

'Cinnamon Cindy' is a miniature pink hybrid which is very fragrant. Smells like cinnamon of course.

The sasanqua 'Rainbow', available from Nuccios, is quite fragrant. Nice bicolor large single flowers too.

I just bought my first camelia today, when I smelled it in the store I couldn't believe how pretty it smelled, I just had to buy it, it was strong smelling. It was Hana Jiman.
Very pretty flower white with pink edges. It didn't smell like cloves, it was a very soft pretty perfume smell. FRESH! Anyone else know of the new fragrant ones?

May be three years from now. Camellia gardeners in US might have a chance to buy a C. species called C. hunanica from special nurseries. It has small, white, neat single form flower. A small graft plant will produce flowers readily. The branches are loaded with flower buds. The bloom has a clean fragrance. Very exciting.

TimH: You mentioned Ace-scent camellia, a fragrant camellia which was developed by Dr. W. L.Ackerman of the U S National Arboretum. He has been one of the top camellia hybriziders on fragrance in U S. He is also known to be the best in developing many hardy camellia hybrids.

I am looking for a fragrant sasanqua with and upright growth habit -- and does anyone know a good reliable mailorder source? I love the way sasanquas drop their petals. This year in North Louisiana the bloom has been wonderful and I covet all that I see!

Camellia Forest Nursery has a new sasanqua hybrid named Scented Snow that is both fragrant and upright. The fragrance is described as being very sweet. I have ordered from them before and I was very satisfied. I wish Scented Snow was hardy here in zone 6B. I wonder if the scent really is sweet and if it is less musky than that of other sasanquas. Has anyone out there sniffed Scented Snow? If so, please let us know what you thought of it.

Here is a link that might be useful: Camellia Forest Nursery

Savannah:
You were asking about reliable mail order sources for sasanquas. I have to put in a plug for the National Arbor Day Society, here.

About ten years ago they sent us some pink sasanquas (I don't know their name); they all survived, are now about fourteen feet tall and are a magnet for bees of all kinds. I, too, love the carpet of pink petals and they seem to bloom from Thanksgiving to Christmas most years.

I got to smell 'Lady Campbell' for the first time; before that all the other Camellias I had seen did not have any fragrance. It had an amazing smell. The fragrance was very similar to gardenia but more musky and aromatic, like sandalwood incense, and somewhat reminiscent of cloves.

Edit to the above post: that camellia was probably Kramer's Supreme, not lady campbell. it was at a chinese garden and i returned and looked up the cultivar name on a list