I just purchased CM recently, so I can't give a long term review of it, but I purchased it as a Jackson and Perkins 2 year old gallon rose at the local nursery. It is about 2ft tall right now. CM is different from many of the other english roses. It is very much like a miniature rose with small foilage and small blooms that at their largest are 3". It counters the small blooms with a flurry of blooms and is quite floriferous. The growth is somewhat similar to CM's parent Golden Celebration. Golden Celebration tends to throw out long arching canes when pruned short, and has twiggy dropping growth when pruned lightly. CM has a similar growth, although more twiggy. You could feasibly use CM as a ground cover rose if you wanted to. If you prune it back hard, it will throw out slightly thicker more upright canes like most roses, but it's a more dense and compact little shrub unless you let it roam free in which case it may become hairy in growth. I don't find the fragrance to be particularly overpowering. I would say it is strong at best, but usually moderate and similar to golden celebration, but not as powerful. The scent does carry however due to the sheer number of blooms that the rose puts out to have a nice fragrance as an entire bush. So far CM is disease free and pretty disease resistant in Ohio.