Daphne odora is loaded with flowers and buds and has no fragrance. Anyone know why?

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• Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889

  10 January

  It's probably the very low temperature. Cup the flowers in both hands and breathe on them. That's usually enough to warm them up enough to release the perfume 

  Devon.

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  11 January

  Hello @donjhigh73465  and welcome to the forum 😊 
  
  I agree with @Hostafan1 … it’s the low temperatures … they’re waiting for a day when the sun hits them and warms the flowers. 
  

  
  

  The perfume from my Sarcococca was a delight the other afternoon when we had some sun.  On colder darker days we smell nothing. 

  
  Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494

  11 January

  I cut some sprigs of my Daphne the other day and they are delight on the dining room table. The perfume is stronger in the evening.

  North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone

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• bertrand-mabel Posts: 2,697

  12 January

  We were in a garden centre last week and were admiring their collection of Hamamelis. As one does with these plants we both went to the flowers to get their lovely scent. Nothing. As others have said it was just too cold for them.

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• ViewAhead Posts: 866

  12 January

  No point wasting perfume if it's too cold for pollinators to be out and about, I guess.  🙂

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• didyw Posts: 3,573

  12 January

  Cut some sprigs and bring them indoors to enjoy the scent.  I've just done that with some vibernum bodnantense and am enjoying the perfume as I type!  There is no scent on the flowers on the shrub itself.  What @ViewAhead says is correct - too cold for pollinators.

  Gardening in East Suffolk on dry sandy soil.

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