With Gertrude, yes if I stick my nose right in a bloom, @Alchemist but many roses, to which others say ‘oh that smells divine/fruity/whatevs...’ I get absolutely nothing! I would love to be able to walk past a rose and get a waft of perfume, but I suspect it’s mission impossible.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
I take it’s good for ignoring horrid smells as much 😀.
Doesn’t work like that, sadly! I can sure smell pungent (the pig manure the local farmers spread is foul). On the plus side, I can detect aromatics pretty well, so things like rosemary, lavender, agastache are fine, plus jasmine and some very heavily perfumed shrubs, but rose notes are just lost on me.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
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Nice rose @Gartener
lots of lovely roses... now the season is really underway... looking forward to more photos...