RE: 'Fragrant Rose' Daffodil/fragrance perception

Well thank you all for your honest reports about this daffodil.  It is
definitely on my list to plant this fall.
	I find flower fragrance, like color & beauty, to be in the "face" of the
beholder.  To me Phlox divaricata 'Clouds of Perfume', blooming now & for
the past few weeks, to be delightfully fragrant.  Some folks can't smell it
at all and in fact look quite puzzled when they come up from a big sniff.  I
say more's the pity.
	Likewise, I think fragrance is very temperature dependent.  I grow a sweet
little pacific coast native - Iris graminae that is described as the "plum
Iris".  Not only is it plum color, but it's fragrance is very reminiscent of
ripe plums on a summer's day.  But on cool, cloudy days like we have had
lately, there is no fragrance at all.  Of course, the other factor is the
Iris is so short you have to lay on your belly to smell it anyway!
	I have another new-to-me species Iris in bloom for the first time - Iris
bracteata.  No fragrance (at least that I can detect so far), but even
daintier than graminae with a butterscotch ground color and root markings on
the falls.  Sounds good enough to eat.  It would be wonderful in a trough
which is where it will end up when I get my hypertufa trough made.
	I have become enamored of the our native Irids and am in my collecting
mode.  Anyone else growing species Iris?

Marilyn Dube'
Natural Designs Nursery
Portland, Oregon


-----Original Message-----
From:	owner-perennials@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf
Of Blee811@aol.com
Sent:	Wednesday, May 07, 2003 7:25 PM
To:	perennials@hort.net
Subject:	Re: 'Fragrant Rose' Daffodil

In a message dated 5/7/2003 8:12:30 PM Eastern Standard Time,
garrideb@well.com writes:

> I got independent reports from two
> persons of the female persuasion, who both say it has a fresh,
> citrusy aroma, but nothing like a rose. What can I say...
> Also, time of day seems not to matter; morning, noon or
> night the fragrance is there. All in all, a nice thing.

I've tested Fragrant Rose at public meetings, foisting a stem into people's
faces for a sniff. Quite often women do not detect the rose fragrance, while
men usually do. A female friend says that's because women are honest and men
lie so as not to appear unable to smell it.  I find the fragrance stronger
when the bloom is fresh--it tends to weaken after the flower has been open
for several days, although the flower itself stays fresh looking for along
time.
Bill Lee

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