Take a flower and some leaves to your garden center

Here is the Name That Rose forum

http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/rosesname

It's a type of tea rose and that is all I know.

Wrong .tea comes from camellias. ;p

How does an old fashioned tea rose have anything to do with tea or camellias?

Ask Gardenweb, lol! Tea comes from the Camellia plant!

This has nothing to do with tea. It's just the name.

I know, I've been growing roses and camellias for 35 years, lol. It's a joke.

It's hard to say, you live in Mass. so it is fairly hardy! Looks healthy too! Take it to a local Rose expert. It is probably an old Rose variety such as a Damask or Gallica; or even a hybrid Musk Rose. These all are very hardy species with strong scents.

My first thought was a hybrid musk rose. It could also be a gallica rose

@lynartist, it looks like we thing alike:)

It's definitely not a rugosa hybrid. Not enough thorns;)

Trek, I have seen several of your posts this evening. Are you tipsy by chance, or just in rare form?

Just need sleep, mate.

Tea roses were among the first hybrids that had reblooming characteristics, unlike the old garden roses of Europe that were once blooming. They acquired the name ''tea'' because the repeat blooming roses that were introduced to Europe were from the China ''tea trade'' routes. Like Slater's Crimson China, Old Blush, Park's Yellow, and Hume'a Blush. Those are the foundation for repeat blooming garden roses as we know them today.

The current popular reblooming roses that have been hybridized since around the Twenties are known as hybrid teas, as they were a cross between Hybrid Perpetual class of roses and Tea roses. That is a Hybrid Tea rose, and there are thousands of varieties in commerce, as well as many thousands more old one that are no longer in commerce.

Identifying garden roses without a lot more information, such as where it was purchased or found, and close up pictures of the foliage, thorns, stipules, and stamens, is almost impossible.

However, a rose blooming in the fall is NOT an European once blooming garden rose like a Gallica or Damask. The blooms are too large for a Hybrid Musk. It is a modern hybrid tea or shrub varietal, but which one is going to be elusive without a great deal more clues.

Mine never go anywhere as they have no stamina ;)

Aw, punchy, then.

Sophie, I am glad to know I know a bit of something, anyway.

Gosh Sophie , I better tell my rugosas to stop blooming up here in RI then

Oh, and hybrid musks bloom in spring and fall.

Rugosa hybrids are repeat bloomers. My hybrid musks bloom all year, in flushes. And they have repeat blooming china genes that create that repeat bloom. The original Rosa moschata was a spring bloomer only.

gallica?

Looks more like the Buck rose, Carefree Beauty than a spring blooming Gallica. No glaucous foliage.

Good luck Cotta, I hope you figure out your rose mystery. Whatever it is it's very lovely.

I have several carefree beauty. They look nothing like that.

Clara's HelpMeFind site has dozens of photos with it looking almost exactly like the OP's photo's.

This is why you must take it to an expert. Photos are unreliable. I can't believe I just went out into my cold garden to cut this! We just had a storm a few days ago so the blooms are gone but you can see that my Bucks CB is a much different type shrub. It has a very different growth habit; very straight and rigid, large medium green leaves and sparse thorns. Also the flowers are deeper pink , they do fade as they age but they are twice the size of the OP's plant.

Bucks CB

Could this be 'Angela'/'Angelica', a floribunda from Kordes?

https://www.helpmefind.com/rose/l.php?l=2.250