RE: RE: HYB: Rose scent

Next year I plan to go around and sniff every one in my collection and document their scents.  I'll put in my two "scents", haha. Like 'Gingersnap', the ones I recall from previous years are 'Caliente' has a rootbeer fragrance and 'Light Beam' a vanilla scent which reminds me exactly of the smell in an ice cream shop where they make waffle cones fresh.  Took me a while to place that one.

Paul Archer
Indianapolis, IN  Zone 5



-----Original Message-----
>From: Francelle <fjmjedwards@q.com>
>Sent: May 8, 2009 1:24 AM
>To: iris@hort.net
>Subject: RE: [iris] RE: HYB: Rose scent
>
>I remember one April morning working in my iris bed and thinking that my
>jasmine vine on the other side of the house must be blooming a month early.
>Then I discovered that the scent was coming from an iris, Appleblossom Days.
>There is a unique iris fragrance though that I think is very fresh and
>lovely, the ones that don't smell like anything but irises.
>
>Francelle Edwards  Glendale, AZ  Zone 9
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-iris@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf Of
>Impressive Irises
>Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 9:30 PM
>To: iris@hort.net
>Subject: Re: [iris] RE: HYB: Rose scent
>
>Hi Griff
>
>While irises such as Bev Sills, Silkirim etc, do have a light pleasant
>perfume it's not in the same class as the strong Jasmine  perfume as
>those I mentioned, before, have. This perfume can be smelt 10 ft away on
>a warm day, and people react very positively to it.
>
>Colleen
>
>J. Griffin Crump wrote:
>> Colleen  --  You might be right that perfume is recessive, but I'm
>> surprised when you speak of "the only strong  nice scent I've detected
>> in irises".  I find that most irises have some fragrance, and quite a
>> few are strongly scented, with usually a pleasant fragrance.  And
>> then, there are some stinkers, too.  Do your fellow
>> hybridizers/growers there find the same thing as you?  --  Griff
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Impressive Irises"
>> <colleen@impressiveirises.com.au>
>> To: <iris@hort.net>
>> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 4:55 PM
>> Subject: Re: [iris] RE: HYB: Rose scent
>>
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> The only strong nice scent I've detected in irises is a jasmine
>>> scent. Forever Yours has it and so does one of mine releases Carol E.
>>> This is from Deja Blue x Autumn Thunder, neither of which has this
>>> lovely perfume. Unfortunately Carol E is pollen sterile so I'm
>>> having  slow working on the genetics, but I suspect perfume is a
>>> recessive gene.
>>>
>>> Colleen Modra
>>>
>>> Adelaide Hills
>>> South Australia
>>>
>>> www.impressiveirises.com.au
>>>
>>>
>>> Thomas silvers wrote:
>>>> Hi Griff,
>>>> I'm fascinated by the diversity of scents I've noticed among the
>>>> bearded irises. I haven't come across a rose-scented one yet, but
>>>> don't see why it wouldn't be possible. Is this in one of your SDB
>>>> seedlings?
>>>>
>>>> Hi Anner, it's good to hear from you again [I had been a little
>>>> worried and was on the verge of e-mailing you :0)]. You wrote:
>>>>  "that among the fragrances cataloged in the AIS 1939 Check List is
>>>> 'rose.' So, for that matter, are waterlily, may-apple, celery, and
>>>> the scent of the flowers of poplar and dogwood"
>>>>
>>>> I'm not familiar with waterlily, may-apple, poplar and dogwood
>>>> scents, but I can vouch for the celery scent. That's exactly the
>>>> thought that came to mind when I smelled the scent of my two newly
>>>> registered diploid MTB rebloomers (CRICKET SONG and EASY SMILE).
>>>> It's not exactly the kind of scent one's hoping for in a flower, but
>>>> I guess it's not unpleasant.
>>>>
>>>> Take care guys, Tom
>>>>
>>>> From: "J. Griffin Crump" <jgcrump@cox.net> Date: Fri, 1 May 2009
>>>> 22:24:11 -0400 -----------------------------------------------
>>>> Today, I plucked a bloom from a seedling which had sent up a stunted
>>>> stalk to
>>>> see how it might look up out of the foliage.  I was astonished to
>>>> get a rose
>>>> scent  --  just as truly as if one were smelling a deep, red rose.
>>>> Has anyone
>>>> else had that experience with an iris?  --  Griff
>>>>
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