Bought one plant of Young Lycidas on own roots, a smallish one year old cutting, at Italian nursery Nino Sanremo, which grows own roots roses with a rather vast catalogue.
It's small, and still has thin branches and small foliage, but it's quite thickly ramified. The foliage looked different from pictures here, and I was wondering if it was mislabeled.
It didn't give any flower at the time of the first bloom, because of those thin branches, but now it's getting stronger and putting out some larger foliage, more true to the photos I see here... and finally some flower buds too, which grow very quickly, but slow down a lot when the colour starts showing. The first one is about to open just now, it's making me wait, I thought it was already opening two days ago ahahah. So curious to see it (hoping it's not mislabeled! the colour of the bud looks right), and to smell that fragrance too.

Update: The label was right, my plant is actually Young Lycidas. Now it's definitely getting stronger, sprouting basal growth even if still not very thick... and I've not even given it a larger container yet (I'm about to do it), I just fed itn generously and helped with mycorrhizal supplement.
I like its flowers a lot, their color reminding me some sort of half-way between an ancient Gallica and Mme Isaac Pereire. Beautiful, and strongly fragrant as well. The smell is really delicious, even if another Austin I purchased, Gabriel Oak, is even better to my nose. Y.L. has some slightly bitter tea undertones that I don't find particularly appealing (they tend to emerge in the evening, when scent fades away a little bit), but in the end the mix is still really good.

I planted The Poet's Wife earlier this summer and it is quickly becoming one of my favorite plants in my entire garden! The fragrance is exceptionally strong and heavenly on this one-- very strong lemon notes with a touch of old rose. I find myself stopping to smell it multiple times a day! It is still a small plant, considering I only planted it about 2 months ago, but it puts out buds over and over. The blooms are a deep, vibrant yellow for about 2 days before they fade to more of a buttercream color, but I enjoy to color contrast between the new and the old together. I look forward to watching this girl get to her full size!

This Bourbon is one of those very few historical roses wich have passed the test of time and after more than 130 years she's still wildly popular and it's no difficult to see why.
The real Mme Pereire's first name was Fanny and she was the wife of a very rich French banker, Isaac Pereire. They gave very much money to good deeds and charity. I'll add a photo of the real Mme, Fanny, Isaac Pereire but now back to the actual rose :
I've had this rose for decades and she's still my favorite rose. Her huge perfectly quartered baroque flowers are simply unique, no other rose has such flowers. And yes there is the scent, wich blows you away. It's a wonderful blend of old roses with raspberry and yes it's very powerful especially in warm weather with little wind.
I've grown her as a shrub for years but now she's against my garden stone brick walls and this is probably the best way to grow this magnificent old Lady. Just trim her as horizontal as possible and she will reward you with lots of flowers. I feed her every month starting at March and i continue till August. I give organic mineral granulated manure, a handful each month and ( this is important) a lot of water! I water every day especially when in full flush and between flushes. It gives her the power to take in all those nutrients she needs to grow and rebloom. Against the walls she reaches 3X 2 meters but she's going to get bigger because it's only her third year. She's very hardy and her only weakness is that she's a little bit prune to blackspot but not worse than most modern varieties. After three years against the wall she hasn't developed blackspot wich my other specimens did growing as a shrub. So that's it! I can't tell you enough how much I love this wonderful old Lady.

Growth: 8
Color: 9
Fragrance: 9
Flower quality: 10
Disease resistance: 7