The scent is as close a match to the true attar of quatre saisons as you will get on any rose (among other things, presumably this is because the flower form means both petals and stamens contribute to the blend). The problem is that you seem to need very specific conditions for the scent to actually be there. 90% of the time, in my experience, there is nothing to smell (at least in my English climate). The flower is a beautiful shade of fresh pink and very attractive when still cupped. As it opens more, both the colour and shape become undistinguished, in my opinion. My plant, grown in a pot, produced fiercely thorny, upright canes (some of the most prickly and hazardous on any rose), with a small bouquet of blooms at the tip. There are leaves on the whole length of the canes -- in fact enough of them to almost completely smother the relatively small and few blooms, which are also not very long lasting and slowish to repeat. I might have put up with all these drawbacks if the scent had been dependable. It might just be that I did not provide it with suitable growing conditions. Probably too vigorous for pot culture, and probably a good candidate for pegging down.