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This rose has been in constant production for a month. We’ve been having unusually warm temperatures by British standards, so that may be the reason, but I’m impressed, much more so that, judging by the canes it’s been producing, with many buds per stem, the best is yet to come. I have been puzzling over how to describe the scent, which is sweet, deep, and vaguely fermented in the best possible way, without any tart notes at all. Charles Quest Ritson describes it as fruity and musky, but I don’t get the fruity notes and am not sure I have yet figured out what the musk scent exactly is (though I occasionally use the word myself to describe scents similar to Golden Jubilee’s!)... I think I finally found a way to pin down the fragrance of this rose: years ago I grew, for a single season, philadelphus delavayi melanocalyx, or it may have been p. purpurascens (closely allied). I had to get rid of it because it grew far too fast and too large for my patio. Golden Jubilee’s scent, though less intense, shares the same quality as the distinctive fragrance of this p. delavayi/purpurascens (which, by the by, smells nothing like other mock oranges)
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In my garden this is actually proving to be well-scented, at least in these moderately warm and windless late summer days. The scent type is close (not identical) to that of another (rather obscure) rose I grow, which smells like honeydew honey. The fragrance is similar, but more earthy on Pink Parfait, with a touch of cannabis!
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#1 of 3 posted
7 days ago by
 Bug_girl
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What is the rare rose that it smells like?
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7 days ago by
Hamanasu
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Sant’Antonio da Padova — a beautiful Italian rose from the mid-twentieth century, which I imagine was only ever grown in Italy. It was lost for some decades but was recovered in recent years.
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4 days ago by
Bug_girl
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Wow! Thanks for sharing.
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A gorgeous rose with a delightful scent.. the only drawback is the blooms don't last as long as I would like... the foliage is beautiful especially the new growth which is dark and richly tinted.. throws up numerous basals..
..eastern England, 2021..
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6 days ago by
Hamanasu
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Indeed, beautiful and distinctive matt foliage, but was rather blighted by blackspot today in the Queen Mary’s rose garden Regent’s Park. Most other varieties seemed clean — they got rid of many beds of older hybrid teas, and I suppose they only kept more disease resistant ones. The moment someone realises Donatella is not performing for health (not even in the unusually dry spring we’ve been having this year) no doubt she’ll be gone too (sigh). One of the best scented roses there today on a breezy day.
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Warm (20 degrees C or so) but breezy day in the Queen Mary’s rose garden in London’s Regent’s Park today and Claret was by far one of the best scented roses for intensity, comparable to Chandos Beauty, Donatella, Emily Bronte and Konigin von Denmark. Incidentally, many beds of traditional hybrid teas have been removed and replaced with grass, in an obvious bid to make maintenance easier and drop older more blackspot probe varieties. Very sad to see gone, among others, Double Delight, Special Anniversary, Diamond Jubilee and various older DA varieties at the garden’s entrance.
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