Re:Why Your Roses Smell Nice
by bsder on Sunday June 18, 2023 @07:34PM
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Marketing can call a rose "fragrant" all it wants. That doesn't make it so.
I have bought almost every kind of varietal I can lay my hands on in an attempt to find roses with scent for my wife's birthday for 20+ years now. When I started doing this, it was easy to find varietals with scent--some of them would pump the whole house full of it they were so strong. In the last 5 years, even if I buy a scattering of varietals (generally I will buy 4-6 dozens in an attempt to find one), I have come up empty twice.
If, however, I go to something like the Del Mar fair and examine the roses which are called "fragrant", they actually are.
I have bought almost every kind of varietal I can lay my hands on in an attempt to find roses with scent for my wife's birthday for 20+ years now. When I started doing this, it was easy to find varietals with scent--some of them would pump the whole house full of it they were so strong. In the last 5 years, even if I buy a scattering of varietals (generally I will buy 4-6 dozens in an attempt to find one), I have come up empty twice.
If, however, I go to something like the Del Mar fair and examine the roses which are called "fragrant", they actually are.
I'll leave the conclusions to you.