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Wed, Mar 12, 14 at 19:11
| ..does this ring a bell? My boyfriend and I usually use common terms like "clove" and "apple" to talk about how different roses smell, but then we very often say of some roses--usually hybrid teas--"oh, this is just a wrapping paper rose", or something like that.. is this the tea rose smell? I used to just think of it as "neutral hybrid tea rose smell" except that some roses smell very very strongly of it. thanks~ |
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| I don't think I'd define any rose as smelling like scotch tape. That's a very caustic scent. There are some teas that are spicy or myrrh scented. There is no one rose scent. But the classic rose scent is often described as something your grandma would have worn as perfume. |
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| A lot of things just smell "green" to me. Just a leafy green vegetation smell but not floral in anyway. I've never thought about them smelling like paper or tape, interesting. I'll have to see this summer when they bloom. |
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| Laura, I know exactly what you mean. Scotch tape and wrapping paper GREEN smell. |
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- Posted by melissa_thefarm NItaly (My Page) on Fri, Mar 14, 14 at 2:30
| Not for me. What I believe is the classic Tea rose scent is for me a dry, aromatic, "woody" scent, akin to that of freshly sawed hardwood, or perhaps cedar. Of course that scent can be blended with many others, even in Tea roses; there's a mild sweet scent that comes from the China ancestry, and some Tea rose fragrances have fruity notes as well. Melissa |
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| Thanks, everyone! the 'green' and 'woody' descriptions make a lot of sense :) I'll have to remember to write down some of the roses that smell especially like this to me, this summer, when all the roses come out ~ |
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