Top 20 of most fragrant roses!
An almost impossible task as there are far more extremely fragrant roses than 20. So we do a top 20 and I'll add plentiful of other candidates. They All are in random order except for no 1 but that's my privilege lol. The TOP 20 was created after a poll at Dirk's rose group, for real rose addicts, a Facebook group.
Top 20:
1) Mme Isaac Pereire & Mme Ernest Calvat (Bourbon)
Abraham Darby (English rose)
Jude the obscure (English rose)
Sœur Emmanuelle (HT)
Pope John Paul II (HT)
La France (first HT)
Louise Odier (Bourbon)
Gertrude Jekyll (English rose)
Evelyn (English rose)
Anna Olivier (Tea)
Lady Hillingdon climbing (Tea)
Étoile de Hollande climbing (climbing HT)
Pompadour (HT)
Madame Anisette (HT)
Caroline's Heart (Modern Hybrid)
Line Renaud (HT)
La rose de Molinard (HT)
Mme Boll/Comte de Chambord (Portland)
Jacques Cartier/Marchesa Boccella (Portland)
Reine Victoria and Mme Pierre Oger (Bourbon)
Felicia (Hybrid Musk)
Other extremely fragrant roses include: Crown Princess Margareta, Sharifa Asma, Lady Emma Hamilton, Mary rose/Redouté/Winchester Cathedral, Yolande d'aragon, Mrs John Laing, Golden Celebration, Jubilee Celebration, Munstead Wood, Chandos Beauty, Augusta Luise, Friesa, Margaret Merrill, Rose edouard, La Ville de Bruxelles, Ispahan, Perfumed Breeze, Yves Piaget, Chartreuse de Parme, André Le Notre, Devoniensis, Desprez, Souvenir de la Malmaison, Ulrich Brunner fils, Eugène Fürst, Mme Plantier, Félicité Parmentier, Belle Isis, Charles Austin, Constance Spry, Maréchal Niel, Scent from heaven, Rose de Rescht, Henri Delbard, Général Jacqueminot, Souvenir du docteur jamain, Minerva, Heritage, Wife of Bath, St Swithun, Tiffany, Valencia and so many others...
Mme Isaac Pereire in my garden
