Hi
Could I add:
Charles de Gaulle
Lovely Lady
Angel Face
Sight Saver
Yolande d Aragon
Perfume Delight

Hope this will be helpful!

Cheers
Michelle

I second your pick of the red brothers. No list of perfumed roses would be complete without them. I would also suggest

Tiffany
Blue Moon
Fragrant Cloud
Francois Dubruil (can never remember the spelling!)

In my experience these can really be relied upon for a nose full of scent. Others I've got can knock your socks off at times, but it can be a hit and miss affair - in the open air at least, and I can seldom bring myself to cut my roses.

For a lanscaping, shrubby rose, I give Lavender Dream 5 stars on all levels, including fragrance. It's a light sweet fragrance but it carries in the air, which is very rare in my garden.

Perfume Delight is also pretty reliable in my garden, strong and vigorous as well; and (in my limited experience with it) Radox Bouquet confirms it's reputation, very smelly indeed.

If you're after a mix of scents there's always the stinky Austins like Cymbeline and Troilus..with that chest rub kinda smell...is it myrrh?

So useful to have roses that don't smell too, especially at the back of a bed, or in the middle where they're hard to reach. I hard to reach smelly rose is a never ending frustration as you're always picking your way throught the garden to smell the blooms!

Oh, how could I have overlooked Double Delight. Not to everyone's taste, but noone could deny it's powerfully and reliably smelly (I love it).

Little White Pet, will fill the house with fragrance if brought indoors - musky scent (my kids don't like it)

William Shakespeare will also fill a room with scent when brought indoors, but I can rarely smell him in the garden.

I've only grown her for 1 season, but so far Tipsy Imperial Concubine is a fragrance winner. Fruity and strong. I'm pretty impressed with this rose all round. (what a happy event that I accidentally bought 2 :o) )

Tatjana, Camp David. Silly question, far too many. There was an item on Antique Rose forum recently about the classification of rose perfumes. Over 20 were mentioned as resembling this or that aroma base. Far too technical for me to make common sense of it. Have a look for it. Maybe Google can help?

The Prince has a beautiful fragrance. It's definitely the nicest and strongest smelling of my roses - when it deigns to flower - and I bought them all for fragrance. By the way, I can't get over how true it is that some roses don't smell until you get them inside. The Prince smells good wherever it is, but I have a feeling that its high point will be a four-bloom spring display.

Take your pick from the Tea Roses. Lady Hillingdon would be near the top of my list with them. Adam has a fresh Tea fragrance. The Damask roses have that real 'Rose' fragrance with at least 2 of them, Kazanlik and Quatre Saison, are used for distilling rose oil for the perfume industry. Souvenir de la Malmaison may have her bad habits but she does have a fantastic fragrance when she decides to open her flowers. Another group you can take your pick from are the Galica Roses. Their flowering period my be fleeting every year campared to other roses but they can put on a show of both flowers and fragrance that can fill the garden on a warm spring day.
Vivienne

Souvenir de la Malmaison
Felicia
Prosperity
Reine des Violettes
Francis Dubreuil
Roserai de l'Hay.

Pam.

I second the nominations for Francis Dubreuil and Radox Bouquet. Chrysler Imperial is a wonderfully perfumed red. And Aloha is a slightly strange standout in the perfume department: it has a beautiful and powerful perfume but one that is unlike any other rose that I have smelt. Sorry, I can't describe it as it was new in my garden last year. The perfume amazed me but I didn't come up with any comparisons at the time.
Just looked up Chrysler Imperial and I see it is a parent of Mr Lincoln. And Botanica describes Aloha's fragrance as "apple blossom". Can't confirm as I don't believe I have ever smelt apple blossom.
A floribunda with a lovely and powerful fragrance is Margaret Merril.

Just had a good smell of Dioressence, a Delbard newly planted this year. Divine!!!!!!!!!!
Definitely a candidate.
Cheers
Judy

Two not mentioned yet and stop me in my tracks on my morning walk around the garden are Sutter's Gold and Tantau's Bernstein rose, both are fruity.. there are plenty more but I'll stop at 2.

Von.

I forgot to add in my previous post the rose

Chartreuse de Parme (Delbard)

I have that as new bare root so have my fingers crossed!
Michelle

I forgot about
Devoniensis.Wouldn't like to be without it.
Pam.

Diamond Jubilee, Ekstase . Ekstase is my most fragrant rose.

Mr Lincoln does it for me every time - it's such a "wafter". Just one in a vase of mixed roses makes you think that they are all heavily perfumed. Beats his brothers and parents in my garden.

My mauves produce plenty of scent - Fragrant Plum, Love Potion and Angel Face, as well as Queen Adelaide which is planted in my mauve bed because although she's pink she fades to a delightful pinky-mauve shade.

Aotearoa and The Children's Rose also produce a delightful scent. They are planted beside each other and I'm never sure which is the best.

Papa Meilland is always a beautiful perfume too
Jan.

Yeah, you're so right Ann. Just one in a vase is enough. Mr Lincoln would be top of my rose list bar none most of the time.

Fragrant Plum's not bad either, but has the down side of the brothers and can be a bit bare at the bottom.

Oklahoma
Sweet Juliet
Abraham Darby
Dioressence?...
Winchester Cathedral
Queen Adelaide

Thanks for the feedback Deryn, interesting article. :o)

Hi Deryn
where are we going to see this article published? In the WA Garden Guru's magazine by any chance? I will keep an eye out for it.
cheers
Rach

Hi
in The West Australian. For a special spring special on Saturday October 8.
cheers Deryn

I have to say that I think the hybrid Tea "Fragrant Cloud" with its strong fruity sillage is the best you can get!! OK the colour is a bit strong (its a orangey /red) but, I do not care - I have a group of 7 and when you cut them and in a vase they go- well the room is full of parfum. Try this rose , you will not be sorry.

Deryn

Good article - informative and makes one want to try these!

I will have a look it and see i can do anything.

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'Seduction'! That's my pick, followed by D.A's. 'Graham Thomas'. Other's though, come very close.

Bump this up. Saw Radox Bouquet, Julie Andrews, Mirandy Lambert, Chrysler Imperial, and Perfume Breeze today May 14 at Home Depot, and Perfume Breeze beat them all as the best scent, can smell it 40 feet away with 5 pots together. Weather was hot & dry up to 90 F all week.