Your idea from a previous post, which could have been combined, of brassavolas offer a nice fragrance...

I hope you get some good answers. I posted a link earlier to an excellent fragrance listing from an Australian garden club. You don't need to have a facebook account to see the list (I don't have one). Mostly species orchids on the list, but some hybrids.

I've noticed that some orchid vendors will advertise an orchid as "fragrant", but if you look at the list the "fragrance" is carrion or something unpleasant. The vendor doesn't tell you anything about that.

I haven't grown this but see consistent recommendations for Dendrobium kingianum—floral, hyacinth, lilac, honey. Supposed to be easy to grow, but needs a cool room to initiate spikes? Typical "home setting" is going to vary considerably from person to person, I would guess.

https://www.facebook.com/notes/gawler-districts-orchid-club-inc/orchid-fragrances/489852841050950/

I will check out that link. I don't have fb either. My home setting is about 70 to 74 F. Many windows. Mostly SE exposure. Low humidity.

Tom, great link! I will research more.

I am also a seeker of fragrant orchids. I grow the following fairly easily, all of which are fragrant:

Dendrochilum magnum - spicy honey smell

Neofalcata 'red' x aerides ordorata 'pink' - smells a bit like lilac

Maxillaria tenuifolia - coconut smelling blooms every April

Lc. Tropical Pointer 'Cheetah' - perfumey floral smell

I have a few more recent acquisitions that are supposed to be fragrant, but they haven't bloomed yet. I'll update if they are wonderful.

suzabanana, thanks for the suggestions. I will look them up.

Thanks for telling us your temps and light.

Can you share where you live? Will your plants spend summer outdoors?

Cattleyas are your most fragrant orchids. Many can be grown indoors with good light and spending time outdoors over summer.

Please give more info on your growing conditions, zone.

Jane

I like in Kansas City, KS. They will be indoors but I may be able to bring them out sometimes. Kansas weather is a bit unpredictable. Where can I find out what zone I am?

Here is a link. Only measures lows but is much better than Sub-tropical which is the description of great chunks of Australia.

Climate/plant zones KS

Great link, Arthur! Coming all the way from Australia!

vmchapman20, orchids love fresh air and sunshine. If you can get them out over summer you will find you can grow many orchids which would not do well indoors year round.

Even a little patio or deck works.

Jane

Ok I can do that. Should I be worried about bugs or anything like that? I have a martini deck. It's up on the second floor. Also will I have a problem with them coming back inside? Could you give me a temp range of when they should be outside? Thanks Jane

Oncidium Sharry Baby smells like chocolate and vanilla - think vanilla fudge ice cream!! Easy to grow blooms 2x a year many small purple-red and white flowers.

Thank you. It's great I already have it. Looking for more like it.

This plant has a lot of small nice flowers. But it special to me because it has a wonderful fragrance and lasts for a couple of months. It takes a very long time for the spike to emerge and flower but it is well worth the wait.

Not in bloom now. They like good drainage and go into high gear mounted or potted high in the medium is best. Like the one above...

On a second story deck, I wouldn't worry about bugs. Mine go outside every summer from about May-October on a deck and the only bugs I've seen are a few ants which don't harm the plants. The main issue I have is too much sun, so I have to provide some sort of shade. Also, squirrels tend to investigate the pots and upturn them.

Temp range should be 50-90F depending on the type of orchid. There are some that suffer at 90F+ but others that thrive. Because we don't often get above 90F for more than a couple days, I leave most of mine out without ever needing to bring them in until it gets cold.

Oncidium 'Twinkle'.

Check Marble Branch Farms they have a Rlc cross that is small but very fragrant. Windowsill size small plant.

Neofinetia falcata flowered on a southern facing windowsill for me. It has a very sweet fragrance that if I recall correctly is similar to vanilla.

Some that I hear rave reviews about their scent are cycnoches warscewiczii and chlorilicon, dendrobium speciosum and kingianum, angraecums, brassavola, aerides, Cattleya walkeriana, jenmanii and mossiae, rhyncostylis gigantea and retusa, Vanda tessalata and tricolor, rhyconlaelia digbyana and glauca, peristeria elata and pendula, gongoras, stanhopeas, coryanthes, epidendrum nocturnum and ciliare, phalaenopsis bellina and violacea, encyclia alata and cordigera, sedirea japonica, cymbidium tracyanum, and zygopetalum among others. Happy hunting.