Due to hard drive crashes, I nearly lost this list. Thanks to a thoughtful, wise Gardenweb member who clipped the results, I would have lost voting results to my informal survey of fragrant roses altogether. Counts were based on frequency of being mentioned in response to the question "What is the most incredibly fragrant rose that takes your breath away?"

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RE: the most incredibly FRAGRANT rose that takes your breath away (Follow-Up #122)

posted by: jpw_chi on 10.08.2006 at 11:11 am in Roses Forum

Here's the updated list for "most mentioned" (as opposed to true "favorites") for fragrance, with Double Delight and Mr. Lincoln now in a dead heat:

23x Double Delight (creamy white swirled with strawberry red)

23x Mr. Lincoln (dark red)

15x Fragrant Cloud (coral red)

13x Chrysler Imperial (burgundy red)

13x Gertrude Jekyll (rose pink)

13x Jude the Obscure (honey)

10x Crimson Glory

10x Lemon Spice (patel yellow tinted pale pink)

9x Abraham Darby (Austin, apricot blend)

9x Francis Dubruiel (dark true red)

9x Papa Meilland (dark red)

8x Evelyn (Austin, apricot pink blend)

8x Heirloom (dark mauve blend)

8x Rose de Rescht (vivid fuchsia)

8x Secret (white tipped pink)

8x Sharifa Asma (Austin, pearly pink)

8x Sunsprite (bright yellow)

8x Sweet Chariot (purple blend)

8x Tiffany (pink/yellow blend)

7x Angel Face (1968, dusky mauve)

7x Melody Parfumee (deep plum fading to clear lavender)

7x The McCartney Rose (ruffled, few petals)

7x Yves Piaget (Romantica, hot pink)

6x Granada (yellow, orange, scarlet tricolor)

6x Just Joey (clear apricot) 6x Mirandy

6x Scentimental (white striped with red)

6x Secret Garden Musk Climber

6x Zephirine Drouhin (cerise pink)

5x Blanc Double de Coubert (pure white)

5x Frederic Mistral (Romantica, light cool pink)

5x Heritage (shell pink)

5x Intrigue (rich reddish purple)

5x Madame Isaac Periere (raspberry pink)

5x Memorial Day (lilac pink)

5x Oklahoma (dark red)

5x Reine des Violettes (cerise pink deepening to soft purple)

5x Rouge Royale (Romantica, cherry red)

5x Souvenir de la Malmaison

5x Sutter's Gold

5x Velvet Fragrance

5x William Shakespeare 2000

4x Alec's Red (1970, subdued red)

4x Baronne Prevost (medium pink)

4x Blue Girl a/k/a Blue Moon

4x Elle

4x Full Sail

4x New Zealand (flesh pink)

4x Othello (inconsistent maroon/blue-red color)

4x Tamora (Austin, clear apricot)

4x The Prince (Austin, imperial purple)

4x Tipsy Imperial Concubine (pink blend)

4x Yolande D'Aragon (rich rose pink)

3x Bella Roma

3x Buff Beauty (soft apricot yellow)

3x Cile Brunner

3x Compt de Chambourd (lilac pink)

3x Darlow's Enigma (pure white)

3x Distant Drums (mauve blend)

3x Falstaff (raspberry red)

3x Fragrant Memory a/k/a Jadis

3x Fragrant Plum

3x Golden Zest

3x Jardins de Bagatelle (creamy white edged pale pink)

3x La Reine Victoria (dusty pink)

3x Louise Odier (medium pink)

3x Madame Hardy (snowy white)

3x Perfume Delight

3x Radiance (pink blend)

3x Red Radiance (HT) 3x Royal Highness

3x Scentsational (clear mauve tinted orchid pink)

3x Sheer Bliss

3x Silver Shadows (pale silvery lavender)

3x Sombreuil (creamy white)

3x Sonia Rkyiel (soft coral pink)

3x Veteran's Honor

2x Apothecary Rose

2x Barbara Streisand

2x Belle de Crecy (cool medium pink)

2x Blossomtime

2x Bubble Bath (light pink)

2x Celsiana (light pink)

2x Clothilde Soupert (blush white with soft pink center)

2x Compassion (salmon pink)

2x Dainty Bess

2x Dolly Parton (garish orange red)

2x Dublin (MD)

2x Earth Song (rose pink)

2x Eglantyne (Austin, clear porcelain pink)

2x Eugene de Beauharnais (crimson purple)

2x Felicia 2x Felicite Parmentier (light pink)

2x Fisherman's Friend (violent magenta)

2x Fragrant Hour

2x Halloween (soft orange)

2x Harrison's Yellow (bright yellow)

2x Hot Tamale

2x Jaune Desprez (buff apricot)

2x Julia's Rose

2x Konigan von Danemark (pink blend)

2x Lady Hillingdon (egg yolk yellow)

2x Lagerfeld (silvery lavender)

2x Love Potion (florabunda)

2x Lyda Rose

2x Madame Alfred Carrier (blush white)

2x Madame Pierre Oger (soft white tipped lilac pink)

2x Maria Shriver

2x Marie Pavie (ivory white)

2x Midnight Blue

2x Mrs B.R. Cant

2x Neptune

2x Peace

2x Petite de Hollande (medium pink)

2x Pure Perfume

2x Radiant Perfume 2x Rosa foetida

2x Sheila's Perfume

2x Shocking Blue

2x Sophy's Perpetual (pink blend)

2x St. Swithun (Austin, soft warm pink blend)

2x Star Of The Nile

2x Sterling Silver

2x Sunday Lemonade

2x Thanksgiving

2x Topaz Jewel (yellow)

Alba maxima (blush white)

Alba Semi Plena (semidouble, pure white)

Alberic Barbier (blush yellow)

Alchemist - can't remember it hasn't bloomed yet!

Alexander Hill Grey

Amazing Grace

Ambridge Rose (Austin, apricot pink blend)

America

American Beauty (violent magenta)

Anna de Deisbach

AppleJack (clear pink)

Apricot Nectar

Ardoisee de Lyon

Arethusa (pale apricot)

August Renoir (Romantica, bright rose pink)

Auguste Gervais (apricot blend)

Autumn Damask

Autumn Sunset (apricot yellow)

Awakening

Basye's Blueberry

Beauty Secret

Belinda's Dream

Belle Amour

Belle Isis (soft pink)

Belle sans Flatterie (pink-mauve blend)

Betty Boop

Betty White

Blanchefleur (soft white)

Bloomfield Dainty

Blush Noisette (pink blend)

Boule de Neige (pure white)

Brandy

Bronze Star

Brother Cadfael

Cardinal Hume (tyrian purple) Carefree Beauty

Careless Love

Celestial (clear pink)

Celine Forestier (yellow & pink blend)

Chapeau de Napoleon (clear pink)

Charles Darwin (Austin, light yellow)

Chic - very light fragrance

Cinderella

Clementina Carbonier (coral blend)

Color Magic

Common Moss (pure pastel pink)

Comtesse de Provence (Romantica, soft coral pink)

Comtesse de Turenne (light pink)

Constance Spry (Austin, clear pink)

Coquette des Blanches (soft white)

Cotillion

Country Dancer

Cramoisi Superieur (red blend)

Cressida (Austin, buff apricot blend)

Dainty Bess

Deep Secret

Delicata

Desiree Parmentier

Devoniensis

Don Juan Don Juan

Dorcas - light but very pleasing

Duc de Guiche (crimson, mauve & pink blend)

Ducher (crisp linen white)

Duchesse de Brabant (light pink)

Duchesse de Montebello (light pink)

Duchesse de Rohan (rich rose pink)

Dusky Maiden

Edina

Erotika - traditional rose

Escapade - super spicy

Etoile de Hollande

Etoile de Lyon (pale golden yellow)

Everest Double Fragrance (light coral pink)

Fair Bianca (white with green button eye)

Fantin Latour

Firefighter

Florence Delattre

Folklore

French Lace

French Perfume (fruity) French Perfume (pink and yellow bicolor)

Garden Party

Gilbert Nabonnand (pale coral pink)

Gloire de Dijon (buff beige tinted dawn pink)

Gold Medal

Golden Celebration

Golden Celebration (rich golden yellow)

Golden Wings

Grace de Monaco - cotton candy rose

Grace English Rose

Graham Thomas

Great Maidens Blush (blush pink)

GriffÂs Red

Grüss an Aachen

Guinee (dark red)

Guy de Maupussant (medium pink)

Hansa (magenta)

Happy Child (bright yellow)

Honor

Honorine de Brabant (pink spotted purple)

Incognito

Invitation - tea

Irish Elegance

Irresistible

Isabel Renaissance

Ispahan

Ivory Fashion

Jacques Cartier (light pink)

Jayne Austin (apricot yellow)

Jean Kenneally

Jennifer - sweet rose

JFK

Joan Fontaine - myrrh

Jubilee Celebration

Judy Garland - strong apricot scent

Kakwa

Katherine Zeimet (creamy white tinted pale yellow at the petal base)

Kathleen Harrop

L'Ingenue (creamy white)

La France

La France

La Ville de Bruxelles (clear pink)

Lady Luck

Lamarque

Lavender Lassie (orchid pink) Le Vesuve - pepper

Les Sjulin (coral pink)

Lilian Austin

Linville

Little White Pet (pink buds opening white)

Louis Phillippe

Louis XIV (dark red)

Madame de la Roche Lambert (crimson tinted magenta and purple)

Madame Ernst Calvat (light pink)

Madame Joseph Swartz (blush white)

Madame Legras de Saint Germain (soft white with green button eye)

Madame Lombard

Madame Plantier (pale pink bud opening white with green button eye)

Maggie (cherry red)

Marchessa Bocella (Portland/HP)

Marechal Niel (clear yellow)

Margaret Merril (white with blush pink center)

Marie d'Orleans (hot pink)

Marie Daly (light pink)

Marie-Louise

Melodee

Molineux

Mrs. Charles Bell

Mrs. William Paul (clear pink)

Myriam (aka Amazing Grace)

Nastarana - sweet spicy candy

Neige Parfum

Nessie

New Day (clear yellow) New Day

NEW DAWN

Norwich Sweetheart

Nuits de Young (rich purple)

Old Bush a/k/a Old Bush China

Olympiad

Outta the Blue

Parole

Pat Austin (Austin, coppery orange)

Penny Lane (translucent ivory blushed apricot)

Perfume Beauty

Perle D'Or (clear apricot)

Persian Yellow

Peter Mayle

Pink Gruss an Aachen'

Pink Poodle (pink with white center)

Pink sport of Marie Pavie Prairie Harvest

Prairie Sunrise

President de Seize (pink blend)

Prospero (indefinable, unusual & spicy)

Quartre Seasons (clear pink)

Radio Times (Austin, rose pink)

Radox Bouquet (FL, ruffled)

Renaissance

Robert Leopold (salmon pink blend)

Rosa Alba Suaveolens (soft white)

Rosa banksiae banksiae (pure white)

Rosa brunonii (white)

Rosa canina

Rosa foetida persiana (bright buttercup yellow)

Rosa moschata (white)

Rosa rugosa alba (pure white)

Rosa rugosa rubra (rich reddish pink)

ROSA MUNDI

Royale Gold (bright yellow)

Royale Sunset (apricot)

Salet (clear pink)

Sarah Van Fleet (clear pink)

Sexy Rexy

Snowbird

Souvenir du Dr. Jamain (dark red)

St Cecelia

Stephen's Big Purple

Surprise

Sweet Surrender (light pink)

Sweet Vivien

Sydonie (OGR)

Sympathie (dark red)

The Dark Lady

The Pilgrim

Therese Bugnet (pink blend)

Toulouse Lautrec (Romantica, clear yellow)

Tour de Malakoff (reddish purple)

Tradescant (Austin, rich burgundy red shaded violet black)

Triumphe de Luxembourg (clear pink)

Typhoo Tea (salmon color)

Ulrich Brunner (deep cool pink)

Valencia

Variegata (white striped with lilac)

Variegata di Bologna (white and purple stripe)

Vineyard Song (mauve blend) Voluptuous

Westerland

White Lightnin' (snowy white)

William R. Smith (blush pink)

Winter Sunset (medium apricot fading to ivory)

X-Rated

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clipped on: 12.10.2006 at 06:25 pm last updated on: 12.10.2006 at 06:25 pm