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Does this have any fragrance? I noticed that the Japanese nursery offering this lists it as medium fragrance, but I think this would be unusual for a persica/hulthema hybrid.
Thank you!
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Yes, it does have a medium rose fragrance, expecially in the first day of opening. It comes from the pther parent, a lilac-mauve rose. It's not a strong scent but it's nice.
You can buy it also from Rose Barni, Italy.
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#2 of 11 posted
20 DEC 12 by
Hamanasu
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To my nose this rose has a variable fragrance: on its 'worst' days it smells of cloves (like the dried spice, rather than dianthus) or even pomanders; on its best days the scent is like rich sour cherry sauce (the kind you would find on ice creams)! The sour cherry scent is absolutely delicious and unlike anything I have ever smelt in a flower, let alone a rose - but it is not consistently there.
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In my climate (Los Angeles, CA) and to my nose, Eyes for You has a medium to strong scent. It have quite a bit of the scent of Blue for You, one of its parents. There is a very strong, over-ripe apple scent quality to the flower. As it ages, it takes on a spicy element with the strong apple scent. I've been extremely pleased and impressed with the health, beauty and scent of this rose!
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#4 of 11 posted
22 DEC 12 by
Hamanasu
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Kim, it's interesting for you the scent is like apples and for me like sour cherries. I think I can relate to the ripe apple idea to an extent. I have seen the rose marketed as smelling of lemons, yet I detect no lemon notes in the scent at all! The first flush of blooms was the most beautiful for me - later flushes produced smaller flowers with more pinkish/mauvish tones. Still a great rose, enough to deserve a place in my otherwise pre-1950 (small) rose collection!
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In cooler, more humid, coastal Ventura County, I think the sweetness of the scent could be like the apples in a home-made apple pie -- with a crisp, spicey edge.
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#6 of 11 posted
16 AUG 13 by
Hamanasu
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Interesting! This year we have had an unsually warm summer (by English standards) and the scent has been distinctly more citrus-like for me (in previous years, my nose had missed the supposedly lemony scent of this rose entirely). Comparing notes on scents is fun - but I have learnt that even to my own nose the same rose can smell quite different at different times of the day, let alone in different seasons!
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Interesting, but also very logical. There are numerous chemicals which comprise each scent. Each has various components which oxidize and evaporate at different temperatures and levels of light. There is also a nutrient level component (just as there is with color) which can vary greatly from one plant to the next as well as how the pH of the soil can cause nutrient levels to vary. As variable as organic scents can be, and with as many factors which can force them to vary, it amazes me any two people, in two different places, at differing times can actually smell anything resembling what the other person perceived! But, yes, this rose has a tremendous scent, no matter which elements it decides to provide you when you sniff it.
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#9 of 11 posted
30 JUL 15 by
styrax
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The petals dropped enroute, but the box "stank up" the whole basement! Like cheap perry at first, but a strong, complex clove overtone, especially after a while. Strangely addicting...
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The whole rose is somewhat addicting!
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#11 of 11 posted
30 AUG 15 by
styrax
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I hope so! The cuttings rooted
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The photos posted seem to be very different roses. I have never seen Suzon Lotthe (I am now considering ordering one), but it is sold by Murata Rose Garden in Japan, and their photo is similar to that of Ami Roses, and very different from Sangerhausen's. (?!)
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#1 of 1 posted
9 JAN 10 by
 jedmar
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'Suzon Lotthe' in Sangerhausen may be mislabeled. We need some more photos of it.
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This rose is intensely fragrant! I can't see any room for "varying opinions". I just bought one, and while at the nursery I sniffed blooms of each Charles Darwin plant there. From barely open bud to over-blown near-to-petal-dropping, each flower was richly scented. I put my chosen plant in the car and drove home through the light rain, and soon the whole vehicle was delightfully perfumed.
Go for it, fragrance-lovers!
The color changes from apricot bud to soft yellow, buff and finally creamy white are also extremely attractive.
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I agree. My Charles Darwin is wonderfully scented. I have it growing in a very large (wine barrel size) pot; mine blooms all spring and summer in repeat flushes with little time in between; it is basically always in bloom until the first hard frost. It is not quite as disease resistant nor robust compared to Julia Child, which is in the pot next to it.... and this year it actually put out some pink (yes pink!) flowers alongside the yellow. It is "own root". Love this rose.
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Charles Darwin does have an amazing scent. I have never smelled a yellow Austin with such a sweet damask scent. Too bad about the dingy colour he fades to on the 3rd or 4th day of bloom. However he lasts just as long in a vase and holds the yellow colour when cut for indoors.
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I have just gotten this and can't yet comment on its other properties, but Candlelight has a magnificent fragrance! I wore one to work the other day and all day long I kept wondering what that lovely scent was before remembering again that it was the rose on my lapel.
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