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Favourite fragrant flowers? What’s yours? 😃

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  • Some of the ones I really like that I have not seen mentioned so far are Ceanothus, curry plant, evening primrose and buddleia.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Snowdrops have a rather lovely mild scent and work surprisingly well as cut flowers.
  • celcius_kkwcelcius_kkw Posts: 753
    edited July 2021
    Roses.. and there so many types of fragrances within this family.. I could never resist having a sniff at a rose whenever I encounter one.. obviously don’t bother with those useless scentless supermarket ones.. 

    Lavender is nice but you have to get up close to pick up the scent..

    Sweet peas have strong scent but I can’t say it’s my favourite.. and all sweet peas smell the same, just varying degrees of it.. I do love the flowers and the fact they bloom so abundantly though. 

    Some varieties of daffodils can be highly fragrant.. Thalia for example 
  • OwlbearOwlbear Posts: 49
    edited July 2021
    Possibly a bit odd but my favourite is probably Pyracantha. It doesn't flower for that long, but when it does it just completely blankets the air around it with a really wonderful smell. Kind of hard to describe really, just oddly relaxing, sweet smell.

    Phlox has quite a strong scent as well, but personally I'm a bit back and forth on whether it's nice or sickly.
  • cooldoccooldoc Posts: 853
    agree with @celcius_kkw on the rose bit.. I am a sucker for fragrant roses..

    Lavenders should be densely packed in a narrow walkway.. the scent is heavenly when you walk past (brushing them)...

    Daffodils and sweet peas.. a bit overpowering at times..

    Love the honeysuckle scent.. sweet/ soapy for me.. early morning is when they are at their best..

    Daphne.. can waft in their peak flowering season.. similar to sweet peas/ daffodils..


    A rose lover from West midlands
  • bertrand-mabelbertrand-mabel Posts: 2,697
    An indoor plant. Hoya carnosa. The scent in the evening moves around the house.
    Lovely plant.
    Outside Sarcocca hookeriana for the fabulous winter scent.
  • jaffacakesjaffacakes Posts: 434
    Privet :) i don't get how people dislike the scent
  • All the above, plus, lilies, lily of the valley, lemon verbena, scented leaved perlagoniums, broad beans in flower on a warm summers evening, bearded iris, jasmine, sweet william, peonies.
  • 2000GTV2000GTV Posts: 112
    Earlier in the season the wild freesias followed by jasmine and currently gardenia also the flowers on my lemon trees smelled lovely. 
    Martina Franca, Puglia, southern Italy
    Love living in Italy but a Loiner at heart 
  • bcpathomebcpathome Posts: 1,313
    Roses roses roses .Especially Chandos Beauty …….heavenly. 
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