That's probably true. I know I have roses that I've seen others post that they don't have a fragrance for them, and I find them to be fragrant. I guess it's location. Also time of day makes a difference. Maybe someday I'll find a fragrant daylily.

My truly fragrant daylilies are oldies and all shades of yellow. Hyperion, Lexington, Hudson Valley, Imperial Lemon and a small flowered NOID. Also, Miss Amelia, very pale yellow and having a mass planting of it insures we get the fragrance. Last year, we put in Wind Song, supposed to be fragrant, will know more this year.

Good to know. I have some oldies, but none of those.

Hemerocallis flava aka Lemon Lily ( which is a daylily not a lily) is fragrant . Some of it's offspring carry the gene for fragrance.

Here is a link to some older fragrant daylilies . http://www.tranquil-lake.com/catalog/Shape/Fragrant0.htm

I generally haven't done much about fragrance, but my daughter Bri likes to stop and smell them. I haven't always noted them, but here's some I have noticed in the past. Before I start the list, let me say Hyperion is the most fragrant and often I can smell it before I get to it! Here's the ones I've noted, but I know there's a lot more. My list and the note with it:

Lake Norman Spider, frag. Lavender Dew, light frag. Court Magician, great frag. Prairie Blue Eyes, frag. Wind Frills, frag. Smoky Mt. Autumn, frag. Wilson Spider, frag. Regal Heir, light frag.

I know I have some more with great fragrance. I'll ask Bri when she comes home. She may remember.

Here's a list of the ones I grow with sometime fragrance based on my experience with them. I usually get up close to test so only if it's marked VF would be be noticeable from some distance. (VF= very fragrant, more likely to be evident on any given day)

I should say that I think I have a somewhat acute sense of smell. On the other hand, I got OLEFACTORY EVIDENCE to try to hybridize with for fragrance and I never noticed it being fragrant for me at all. It was both from the hybridizer and a friend so it was the correct plant.

ALPHA AND OMEGA - VF (I've smelled it from 5 feet away and sometimes not at all)

BACK IN A MINUTE, BI-EYED BABY, BIG SUR

BLUEGRASS MUSIC - VF

BUTTERFLIES AND RAINBOWS, CINNAMON CRISP, CLOWN FOR A DAY, CONSTANT HEART, CREME ANGLAISE, CRYSTALLINE ENTITY, DARKLY BRIGHT, DOC BRANCH, DRAGON KING, DRAGONFLY DAWN,

EDIBLE ARRANGEMENT - VF

EGYPTIAN IBIS, EVELYN TATES, FANCIFUL CANDY, FOOTLOOSE FANCY, FORTY DAYS AND FORTY NIGHTS

HARD TIMES - VF

HELEN SHOOTER

HEMEROCALLIS MINOR - VF

HUSH LITTLE BABY, IDA'S MAGIC, KISSED IN THE DARK

LEMON PARCHMENT, LESLIE RENEE - VF

LIGHT OF THE WORLD, LIQUID SUNSHINE, LORI GOLDSTON

LOVE AND MARRIAGE - VF

MAE GRAHAM, MAGIC LACE

MEME'S TUITTI FRUITTI - I think it may often be VF. I've been using it in hybridizing with that being one of the traits I want and I have some fragrant things of my own out of it.

MIDNIGHT RAIDER, MONOCACY SUMMER MIST

MORNING SKY - VF

MORT'S MASTERPIECE

MY FRIEND KAMMY - VF

NANKI-POO, ONDINE, ORANGE CLOWN, PATTERN OF LIFE

PEGGY BASS, PERSIMMON PARFAIT - VF

PETE'S DRAGON

PINK ALOHA, QUICKSILVER PINK? - VF

REGAL CORONATION, ROUGE AND LACE, RUFFLED PERFECTION, RUSSIAN EASTER, SABRA SALINA, SAY HELLO TO HANS,SEAL OF APPROVAL

SHERRY LANE CARR, SHUFFLE THE DECK - VF

SILKY TWILIGHT, SILOAM OLIN FRAZIER, SMALL WORLD SHELLI ELIZABETH, SNAKE IN THE GRASS BOO, SPACECOAST MULTILEVEL DEAL, SPACECOAST SEA SHELLS, SPIRITUAL CORRIDOR, STRAWBERRIES AND CREAM, TAHOE SNOW BLIZZARD, TEARS OF LOVE

TEXAS BIG RED - VF

TEXAS MORNING MELODY, TOOL MAN TIM, TROPICAL HEAT WAVE

VALLEY MONSTER - VF (For many years before I got some of the newer fragrant daylilies, I thought this was hands down the most fragrant one I was growing.)

VICTORIAN LACE, WEDDING BAND

And here is a link to the ones listed on the AHS database , Fragrant and very Fragrant ......all 2448 of them click on link http://www.daylilies.org/DaylilyDB/?advanced .... this brings you to the advanced search page , scroll down the page and click fragrant and very fragrant . hit enter and voila !

Signet, Thanks for the info on the advanced search. I have never really explored that option.