The Most Fragrant Roses for Your Garden

Fill your garden with sweet scents and beautiful blooms with these amazingly fragrant flowers.

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Honey Perfume

Fragrant Plum

Radiant Perfume

Heritage

Louise Odier

Madame Plantier

Fragrant Cloud

Autumn Damask

Double Delight

Gertrude Jekyll

Just Joey

Madame Alfred Carriere

Madame Isaac Pereire

Mister Lincoln

New Dawn

Roseraie de l'Hay

America

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Honey Perfume

This award-winning floribunda rose bears beautiful 4-inch-wide, strongly fragrant, apricot-yellow blooms that appear in clusters. It's compact, too, and offers good resistance to powdery mildew and rose rust.

Size: To 4 feet tall and 3 feet wide

Zones: 5-9

Fragrant Plum

Noteworthy for its color (lavender blushing to smoky purple at the edges) and its sweet scent (rich and plum-like), 'Fragrant Plum' is a hybrid tea that bears almost perfectly shaped flowers that look stunning in a vase.

Size: To 6 feet tall and 4 feet wide

Zones: 5-9

Radiant Perfume

This grandiflora rose's name says it all! The big, golden-yellow blooms bear a wonderfully intense citrus scent. Thanks to their long stems, the flowers are perfect for cutting and adding sunshine indoors.

Size: To 5 feet tall and wide

Zones: 5-9

Heritage

Another outstanding English rose, Heritage bears petal-filled soft-pink blooms that smell of sweet lemons. Many gardeners appreciate that it has fewer (at least than most roses) thorns on its canes and good disease resistance.

Size: To 5 feet tall and 4 feet wide

Zones: 5-9

Louise Odier

Bred in 1851, this vigorous old garden rose remains popular for its strength as a cut flower, use in the landscape (it makes a stunning hedge!), constant supply of summertime blooms, and intense sweet fragrance.

Size: To 6 feet tall and 4 feet wide

Zones: 5-9

Madame Plantier

Bred in 1835, this rose has withstood the test of time. One look (and sniff) at it and you'll see why -- the pure-white flowers are packed with petals and a sweet fragrance.

Size: To 6 feet tall and wide

Zones: 4-9

Fragrant Cloud

Your instincts are right if 'America' climbing rose reminds you of 'Fragrant Cloud'; this selection is one of America's parents. Like its offspring, it's an award winner that offers a captivating fragrance in its big coral-red blooms. 'Fragrant Cloud', however, is a vigorous hybrid tea with a lot of flower power.

Size: To 5 feet tall and wide

Zones: 5-9

Autumn Damask

This old-fashioned, repeat-blooming rose has been grown since the 1500s -- and its combination of beautiful pink flowers and intense fragrance keeps it popular today. Sometimes sold as the Four Seasons rose, it is a favorite of the perfume industry.

Size: To 5 feet tall and wide

Zones: 5-9

Double Delight

One of the most distinctive hybrid tea roses, 'Double Delight' bears creamy white flowers with rich, cherry-red edges that deepen as the flower ages, as well as a knock-your-socks-off fragrance. It's one of the most dramatic and dependable roses in the garden.

Size: To 5 feet tall and wide

Zones: 3-9

Gertrude Jekyll

Most English roses are wonderfully fragrant, so it's no surprise David Austin's 'Gertrude Jekyll' made the list. This easy-growing stunner offers great disease resistance and wonderful medium-pink flowers on a vigorous plant.

Size: To 6 feet tall and 4 feet wide

Zones: 5-9

Just Joey

You can't beat this hybrid tea rose's rich, warm color -- it's a beautiful blend of rich apricot and glowing orange. While 'Just Joey' appeals to the eye, it's really the way the rose appeals to your nose that makes it a garden favorite.

Size: To 4 feet tall and wide

Zones: 5-9

Madame Alfred Carriere

Another old-rose classic, this climbing rose was born in 1879 and features pink-blushed white flowers with a strong spicy-sweet scent. It bears a continuous supply of blooms and is perfect for clothing a wall or pergola (especially since it bears fewer thorns than most roses).

Size: To 16 feet tall and 9 feet wide

Zones: 6-9

Madame Isaac Pereire

Considered one of the most fragrant roses in history, 'Madame Isaac Pereire' bears petal-filled, deep raspberry-rose flowers in spring and again in summer.

Size: To 7 feet tall and 5 feet wide

Zones: 6-9

Mister Lincoln

An award-winning rose born in 1965 that's just as popular today, it features rich, velvety-red roses packed with a strong fragrance. Some rose experts say 'Mister Lincoln' set the standard for red roses.

Size: To 7 feet tall and 4 feet wide

Zones: 5-9

New Dawn

Climbing roses can be just as fragrant as their bushy cousins -- a fact proven by gorgeous 'New Dawn'. It features big, soft-pink flowers throughout the summer. Be sure to give 'New Dawn' plenty of room to climb!

Size: To 20 feet tall and 10 feet wide

Zones: 5-9

Roseraie de l'Hay

Among the hardiest of all roses, this rugosa-type shrub bears magenta-purple blooms filled with a very strong, sweet fragrance. It's long blooming and wonderfully disease resistant, too.

Size: To 5 feet tall and wide

Zones: 3-9

America

Add interest to pergolas, walls, and other structures with this award-winning climbing rose. 'America' features strongly scented coral-pink blooms all summer long. It is disease resistant, so you can count on it to look good at the end of the season.

Size: To 16 feet tall and 6 feet wide

Zones: 6-9

The Most Fragrant Roses for Your Garden

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