Your best smellers 2025!

I wish we had smellevision!
Dianthus 'Whatfield gem' and double stocks perfume hits me as soon as I step out on the patio.
Roses, Whiskey Mac and Alfred Sisley carry on the perfume down the garden.
Sweet peas not even started yet.
What are your best smellers?

 

Definitely sweet peas! I've already picked 2 bunches, though sadly the perfume fades in only a couple of days after cutting.
Also night scented stock - it smells coconutty to me, and it's just started flowering

 

Our Star Jasmine is always lovely. My sweet peas, Cupani, don’t have much perfume so far. Just a hint.

 

My Mock Orange is the most perfumed currently. Lemon Verbena is amazing - but doesn’t waft, you have to rub the leaves.

 

Nicotiana mutabilis near the house and the honeysuckle at the end of the garden (serotina, I think) both smell wonderful here in the evenings.

I was at Kenwood House earlier today, where a bed of roses outside the cafe had a wonderful wafting fragrance - no label, but I think they were probably David Austin's Fisherman's Friend.

 

Carnation Chabaud, Lilac and Saracocca( both finished now ), Honeysuckle. various Roses, Lily regale ( about to open so just bought indoors ). Unfortunately, the most pervasive "scent" today is manure - muck spreading going on !!

 

Honeysuckle, Philadelphus, and roses 'Chandos Beauty' and 'Westerland', as well as 'Mme. Alfred Carrière'.

 

Rose Mme Grégoire Staechelin. Beautiful flowers, 4” across and the most wonderful, strong “rose” perfume. Seen here scrambling through a Pond’s Seedling plum tree.

 

Evening scent, Datura, Brugmansia, Polianthes, Zaluzianskya, Cestrum nocturn.

Sinningia tubiflora has one of those scents that just wafts up now and again, but I find a fair few flowers have scent in hot conditions that we rarely get enough of to notice.

Even Privet is highly scented along with Cordyline.

 

What surprised me was a pleasant scent from cardiocrinum yunnanense. I didn't expect it

 

Privet flowers are the thing that take me back to my early childhood. Walking to primary school past the front gardens of little, terraced, red brick, miners’ houses. The end of the school year coming up. Yippeee!!!!

 

Our philadelphus is amazing this year (current heavy rain might finish it off), and the scent from the small-flowered roses at the front of the house were outstanding in the warmth yesterday.

I don’t like the smell of privet, but it does remind me of being young. Same with flowering currant. (Ribes?)

 

I've got a dracuculus just coming into the flower, now that has a real perfume along with sauromatum venosum.

 

I love the smell of Sweet Williams but I haven't got any this year
I love also the smell of my Echinopsis eyriesii but it hasn't even got buds this year and it only lasts a day anyway, but it's still one of my favs, you can smell it from a distance.
On the positive side my Honeysuckle has done well this year, it's beyond my greenhouse but I can smell it as I go out the back door

 

I find most of the epiphytic cactus have a good scent Michael, I even have some echinocereus that has smelly fruits, when ripe the whole greenhouse actually smells of ripe melons.