Top 10 fragrant roses
Plant these roses and bask in their glorious perfume
Myrrh, musk, tea, berries, citrus fruit, peaches, white wine... The bouquet offered by some roses is intoxicating. Here are a few of the finest:
1 Gertrude Jekyll The pink blooms of this popular English rose exude one of the best old-fashioned scents.
2 Rosa gallica var. officinalis Light crimson, ruffly flowers with golden stamens, these have been used for centuries in the perfume industry because of the exceptional rich spiciness of their fragrance.
3 Louise Odier One of the most beautiful Bourbon roses, this flowers throughout summer with rich pink blooms and a strong rose perfume.
4 Jude the Obscure This yellow, free- flowering shrub rose has a fragrance redolent of guava and sweet white wine.
5 Claire Austin Creamy-white cupped blooms carry a heady myrrh-based scent with dashes of vanilla, meadowsweet and heliotrope.
6 Evelyn These large, apricot and pink rosettes have an outstanding old-rose fragrance and a fruity note of fresh peaches and apricot.
7 William Lobb An old moss rose with magenta flowers that fade to dusky mauve and have a strong perfume.
8 Madame Isaac Pereire The outsize, blowsy, shocking pink blooms of this antique French rose (left) appear throughout summer. The rosarian Graham Stuart Thomas once described it as having possibly the most powerful fragrance of all roses.
9 Leander The rich salmon-pink blooms on this free-flowering English rose have a distinct fragrance of raspberries mingled with tea rose.
10 Roseraie de l'Haÿ One of the finest rugosa roses, this typically healthy and vigorous gem has magenta flowers that carry a spicy-sweet perfume with a hint of lemon.
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