Some varieties are fragrant. Others are not. Seems odd that there's not at least one that's fragrant. Usually the yellow ones have fragrance.

Guess we must all have descendants from the same mother plants....now that I think of it, I was welcomed to the neighborhood by the lady across the street who gave me several cuttings of plants I never had before---a couple of plumeria...a deep pink and white/yellow.

Can anyone recommend a variety with an intense fragrance? Right now I want my memories...but since I just joined this forum, I'm sure I'll be experimenting with many varieties soon. ;o)

Aztec Gold is not expensive and has a great strong peach scent. Bridal Bouquet has no smell nebels rainbow has no smell If theres no scent I don't need it :)

Celadine is what is most commonly used in the lei business in Hawaii and is the fragrance most commonly associated with plumerias. However, there are many varieties of scents including peach, spicy, gardenia, cinnamon, fruity, rose, coconut, lemon, citrusy, grapes, cherry, and even bubble gum. A great starter besides Celadine would be Jeannie moragne (rose), aztec gold (peach), kauka wilder (tropical), Charlotte Ebert (perfume). Kimi Moragne (sweet spice) and My Valentine (blind testers favorite). I am sure others will ring in with cultivars that they like and may not be in my collection. Plant scent varies by heat and humidity- some are stronger in the evening while some in the morning.

Thank you folks for helping out such a newbie like me. Are there any favorite and reasonable places to order from?

I'm getting excited about my new hobby.

Jeannie Moragne:
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Jeannie Moragne:

try mauiplumeriagardens.com floridacolors.com alohatropicals.com
there are others but these three are very reliable and have good selections.

Kimi Moragne:

Oooh "tdogdad"....those pictures are so enticing; I want to bury my nose in them but with my luck a gekko would jump out at me.
(Actually, I finally made my peace with the little guys--it was an intense courtship when we first moved to Florida from St. Louis....until I realized they were just part of the landscape here and didn't mean to give me heart palpitations every time one ran over my foot. )

Can you recommend your favorite supplier? Of plumeria that is...

Look under the Kauka Wilder and I listed three that have been reliable over the years.

Thank you again tdogdad; I didn't see your list at first---was too busy staring at the pretty pictures. ;o)

Right now I've invited Celadine and Ms. Charlotte Ebert to come live in our sunroom and lanai. If they like the accommodations, I'll invite more of their friends to join them.

The unscented plumeria out in the yard will probably be jealous---especially since they now have mushy ends from the cold.....but who says life is fair? Wonder if I should cut off all their frozen ends now or wait for another record breaking cold wave here in Florida? If I didn't know better, I'd think I was back in Chicago.

i know this thread is rather old, but i had to add that it seems the plumerias in florida are not as fragrant as the ones in hawaii, no matter what the type. in hawaii they just filled the air with fragrance, here in florida you have to push your nose into the blossom to get any fragrance, which, admittedly has it's own sort of appeal. i volunteered at a resort in puna on the big island, and there was a grove of singapore plumerias that you had to pass through to get across a lawn that lead to the dining lanai and other buildings. you could smell the fragrance yards away from the grove, it was wonderful. and i remember some volunteers and i went on a little trip to kona and the courtyard of the hotel we stayed in was full of plumerias, different types, i think one might have been kanehoe sunburst, but in the morning, on the balcony the air was just full of the delicate fragrance from the trees. i've only noticed once here in miami where there was a tree with a mild 'waft factor', it was some sort of yellow, perhaps celadine, i'll never know for sure, but i could get light whiffs of fragrance when i went up to the tree to photograph it. i think it also doesn't help that most plumerias planted in miami are miami rose, which smells great, like coconutty suntan lotion or a pina colada, but the fragrance is so light that you definitely have to stick your nose in the flower to get any scent. i actually have a miami rose, they actually make really beautiful, large, impressive trees when they mature, but i got kauka wilder, celadine, lei rainbow, and inca gold for not only the color,but for the scent, all of which are supposed to be rather strong. i remember smelling kauka wilder at the dean konklin plumeria grove at the koko crater botanic garden on oahu and loving the fragrance, it smelled like tropical fruit to me, although i don't remember if the fragrance of it filled the air or not. i also have a key west red, it smells very much like roses to me, and when if first starts it's blooming cycle you can get light whiffs of fragrance, it tends to be less fragrant as time goes on. i'd like to get a mele pa bowman, which is a cross between singapore and celadine, two of the most fragrant plumies, so i would imagine it too would be very fragrant, and would have the advantage of having at least some color, albeit pale, rather than the stark white of the singapore (i really don't like white flowers, unfortunately so many flowers with incredible fragrances are white ).

blulagoon, Thank you for your comment. I am a newbie searching for fragrance. You mentioned that many of the flowers with incredible fragrance are white. Like what? Would you mind making some suggestions? I'm hoping to find one that I can enjoy from 10 feet away no matter what color. Thanks again.

Terri in PA

@treehugger101 Sorry, it's been 4 years since I've seen this post! I forgot I even posted on it! Well what I mean by white flowers being the most fragrant are ones like gardenias, tuberose, jasmine, white champaca(although the orange ones are just as fragrant), Night Queen(cestrum nocturnum), brunfelsias, stephanotis, Singapore plumeria, etc. in the tropics. I see you live in Pennsylvania. It seems like there are also very colorful,(but also come in white) fragrant plants that grow up north too, like lilacs, hyacinths, roses, lilies, stocks, nicotania, honeysuckle, petunias, viburnum, daphne, just to name a few.