11 Rose Varieties with Intense Fragrance, You'll Want to Plant a Pot of Each After One Whiff
If you want to plant some fragrant roses in your yard, you absolutely shouldn't miss the following 11 varieties. Many roses and rose flowers have intoxicating fragrances, and you can pick the scent you like best. The most common fragrances are citrus, honey, musk, clove or hay, etc.
1. Lady Emma Hamilton
The one above is the Lady Emma Hamilton rose. Its flowers carry an intoxicating fruity fragrance, a scent like a blend of citrus, pear and grape. The flowers are orange-red with some yellow-orange mixed in, with cup-shaped blooms. It repeats flowering across multiple seasons and generally grows to over one meter tall.
2. Munstead Wood
This is a very old rose variety. Its flowers carry a blackberry-like fragrance, and it has velvety red blooms that look especially captivating. Its flowers have an intoxicating delicate scent, with a flower diameter of 9.5 cm. It is also a variety that blooms across multiple seasons and has good disease resistance.
3. Honey Perfume
The apricot and yellow Honey Perfume is especially enchanting. Its flowers carry a sweet and spicy fragrance, and as the blooms stay open longer, they slowly turn cream-colored. The flower's fragrance is particularly intense. Honey Perfume roses can bloom across multiple seasons, and the plant generally grows to about one meter.
4. Boscobel
This is a shrub rose bred in England in 2012. Its flowers carry an intoxicating strong fragrance, and the flower color is a captivating pink. It is a double-flowered, many-bloomed rose with excellent cold hardiness, giving a delightful citrus note and outstanding ornamental value. It belongs to the medium-sized shrub roses.
5. Claire Austin
The Claire Austin rose has an intense herbal fragrance, like a blend of vanilla. It has white double flowers and can grow to over 1 meter tall. It is suitable for making cut flowers and is a wonderful white-flowered rose, very captivating.
6. The Generous Gardener
This is a rather old-fashioned fragrant rose. It has soft petals, and the petals carry a scent of musk and vanilla. This variety also has strong disease resistance and is suitable for climbing growth. It belongs to the taller shrub roses. The Generous Gardener rose also has excellent disease resistance and is easy to care for.
7. Double Delight
This is also a rose I'm very fond of. Its flowers look especially captivating, with petals blending candy-like colors. Its flowers mix cream and cherry red, growing especially compactly. It can be grown in containers, and the flowers carry an intoxicating and spicy fragrance.
8. Floribunda Shuo Chou
This is a floribunda-type rose with petals blending red and white. Not only are the flower colors gorgeous, but it also has a very strong fragrance. Its sweet and spicy scent makes it especially popular. It can keep blooming repeatedly across multiple seasons, with vigorous branch and leaf growth and easy flowering.
9. America
This is a variety bred in the United States. It is a very famous climbing vine-type rose that can keep blooming continuously across multiple seasons. It has cup-shaped flowers with layer upon layer of petals, and the overall flower shape is round. The blooms are especially large, the growth is especially vigorous, and the disease resistance is very good. It looks especially abundant and captivating.
10. Puff Beauty
The Puff Beauty rose looks very endearing. Its flowers carry a musk fragrance, and it grows especially vigorously. This apricot-colored rose is easy to grow. The plant is relatively low but has some climbing ability. It belongs to the shrub-type intensely fragrant roses.
11. Graham Thomas
This variety is especially popular. It was voted the world's most popular variety by more than 100,000 rose enthusiasts. Would you like a hybrid tea rose like this? The Graham Thomas flower carries an intoxicating scent of violet and rose perfume. The fragrance is intense, it can keep blooming across multiple seasons, has good cold hardiness, and is easy to climb.