I was pretty startled to see people rate Aromatherapy as not being fragrant. It has a real nice fragrance in my organics garden, and it has a nice quantity of blooms when it does flush. Aromatherapy has the rebloom factor of a typical HT --4 weeks resting period in my heavy clay soil/climate conditions. The really bad part about Aromatherapy is that it is a sheer disaster in an all-organics garden in terms of BS resistance. I wlll coddle highly fragrant roses so I am keeping it until I find a highly fragrant pink rose that stays pink (without fading to white) in blasting Midwestern sun. Aromatherapy's bubble gum pink is absolutely perfect in my garden scheme, and I want a rose that stays this way. Note, I don't think Aromatherapy is normally a large-flowered rose unless people are artificially pumping it with Miracle Gro???? It is actually a medium-sized bloom. To me I consider "large" like a Pope John HT or Lincoln or an Austin something of that nature.

I purchase aromatherapy as a fall rose from J&P 2 seasons ago. The first season it didnt do much seeing as it was very small. Last season it began to grow but i didnt get much bloom on the plant,i believe it because i have a mole,vole and shrew problem. Last fall we decided to rock all of my flower beds to prevent the moles/shrew from enjoying the roots of my roses. I noticed a big difference in the roses. Aromatherapy did indeed bloom, it was a beautiful large rose and it had a very strong scent. Hopefully this season will be better for the roses as they will not have to recovery from being eaten. Aromatherapy is hardy to zone 6 winters, with very little dieback. I didnot protect it with mulch this winter because of the rocks,but i guess that was enough because aromatherapy looks just fine. This plant has an upright growth habit. I will update its progress through the summer.