Hi again it's Jason from Fraser Valley Rose Farm and somehow out of hundreds of possible choices
I've narrowed down to about 20 my picks of the most fragrant roses you can add to your garden
i've picked these ones for their diversity i wanted to have different colors of blooms
different habits and of course different scents because although roses all have an undertone
of "rose" kind of scent it can be described sometimes as more fruity or sometimes more
sweet or sometimes even like myrrh or licorice so these are some of the fragrances i'm going
to describe to you today i wish i could just put a bloom through the screen there so you could smell
it as i'm talking about them but what i will do as a second best thing is i'll put up some
pictures of the roses and also put up a box up here that includes their name and other attributes
so first I'm going to talk about is 'Ebb Tide' I'll move through these relatively quickly... Ebb Tide
is a deep purple color immensely garden-worthy and oftentimes you'll hear its scent described as
a complex clove type fragrance next up is 'Fragrant Cloud ' in that coral salmon color
that i like so much in the garden it is a bit of a magnet for powdery mildew on the leaves but
totally worth growing with a little bit of extra trouble spraying with the baking soda solution
i've described elsewhere and that one is described as having kind of a sweet citrusy fragrance
well i really shouldn't go any further without describing this rose this is 'Kazanlik' the true
damask rose that's used in Bulgaria and elsewhere around the world for perfume production it really
has a rose scent that is instantly recognizable as the one that you would find in the perfume bottle
no other way to describe it except a Damask scent now i'll discuss right here that i
could easily have stacked this entire list full of the old garden roses like this one
that bloom in the spring and then don't bloom for the rest of the year i felt that might be a little
bit limiting but just know that there are lots of good choices in the old garden roses but you get
yourself limited in terms of their bloom season as well as their range of colors well here's
three modern roses that won't disappoint first up: 'Papa Meilland' which is a deep dark saturated red
with darker edges and shading truly wicked color and it shares that strong damask fragrance that
i talked about with Kazanlik so it has that old garden rose scent next up is 'Fragrant Plum' which
is in the move through purple range really lovely rose and it has a fruity fragrance so plum fruit
works great next up is 'Francis Meilland' i guess i'm choosing the Meillands here which is a light
pink almost white towards the outer edges with a deeper shading towards the center and that one is
described as a citrus scent let's talk a minute about the David Austin roses because they belong
on this list for sure i'll give you an example of Gertrude Jekyll is a climber well known for having
a very strong classic rose fragrance in strong pink but the Austin roses in general they're the
breeding program has given a lot of attention to breeding for fragrance so if you go to their site
and i'll put a link below they will talk about some of their most fragrant roses but i will
highlight one more directly in this video which is 'Scepter'd Isle' which is known for having a
myrrh fragrance which is pretty distinctive to the david austin line it's not really widespread
in the rest of rosedom but they've read quite a few roses that have that myrrh fragrance which is
just very unique my next pick is 'Heirloom' with a wonderful mauve blend of colors and my pick as the
sweetest of all of the rose fragrances that's just my nose but i just find it super sweet next one
up let's talk about 'Firefighter' color wise this one is like fire engine red with a little bit of
crimson in there or orange tones i love the color great performer in the garden and actually has a
bit of a musky fragrance to it i find like the hybrid musks or the musk roses also jumping back
to climbers now i want to talk about 'Aloha' which i featured recently in my climbing roses video but
it is easily featured as one with a great scent as well it has a silvery pink color and it also has
a wonderful apple fragrance that is quite distinct the next rose i'm featuring is 'Madame Plantier' and
although it is fairly early in the season for me i actually have this one in bloom from my greenhouse
here it's an alba rose or an alba hybrid and it has that strong sweet fragrance of the alba roses
it's no other way to describe it but you would find it commercially as something called white
rose oil it is one of the traditional roses being used for perfume distillery or at least the alba
group is next up i wanted to talk about a rambler called francis e lester it's a white with pink
edges and it has a clove fragrance another one that's known for having a clove fragrance or a
whole group is the rigosa roses the rugosa roses i could easily again feature many more of those
on this list here but it tends to be that the rugosas and their hybrids have a strong fragrance
they bloom all year and they also happen to be tough adaptable roses so totally worth looking
at the rugosa group great for hips as well next up let's do 'Angel Face' which is a purple rose
with a very strong citrusy kind of scent very fresh and beautiful rose in the garden
next up i'm going to talk about 'Sheila's Perfume' the apt name has a wonderful perfume
it's in pink and yellow let's say and has a very spicy fragrance and next up i'm also going to talk
about 'Leontine Gervais' with this is a rambling rose as well but it has a really super strong musk
fragrance that i thought was worth highlighting in this video it also comes in a in an apricot type
color which i really love in roses but that musk is under is is unmistakable so a wonderful rose
well i wanted to feature one of the classic mid pink damask perpetuals or hybrid perpetuals hard
to pick amongst a few choices but this one i have in bloom right now 'Sydonie' really has that classic
damask fragrance nothing like it in the garden and just strong it has that sort of buttoned
center of the rose i'll maybe insert a picture so you can see it a little bit better but gorgeous
form on this one as well well as i'm about to wrap up my list here i don't think i've included
any strong saturated yellows so for people who want that kind of a rose 'Sunsprite' fits the bill
with just a strong sweet fragrance that is long lasting in the garden on a non-fading kind of
bloom so love sunsprite for the garden and finally i know i just said this wouldn't be a ranked list
but i'm going to end with one that i consider my favorite for scent even though it might not
be the strongest i find it to be the finest fragrance this is 'Rose de Rescht' in a strong pink
tending towards red you bury your nose in that thing you get a blend of the damask fragrance
and this more complicated gallica fragrance they blend perfectly in this portland so that's my
final pick as the best smelling rose alright thanks for watching today i hope you enjoyed
my picks of the most fragrant roses uh happy to have you contribute your choices in the comments
below the video because there are so many fine choices for this category and thanks for watching