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Mon, Jun 18, 12 at 9:12
| My musk rose planted (as a tiny baby) in 2010 now has canes 12 ft. long and is blooming like crazy. But I detect no fragrance, musk or otherwise. What's wrong? Is it my nose? I can smell all my other kinds of roses. Or does the fragrance develop as the plant matures?
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| I grow the single, which is supposed to be more intensely fragrant than the double. However the double is still said to be quite fragrant. My own R moschata is one of those roses from which I get detect little or no odor when I put my nose right into the flower itself. Marie Pavie is another such rose. The greatest perfume is experienced when I stand two or three feet away and a wave of scent wafts over me. |
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| I've found that the single form is more fragrant to me, and I wonder if it is because R. moschata plena has more petals that trap the scent within the bloom. If this is the case, you might try picking a bouquet of R. moschata plena, on a warm humid day (when scent of a rose is likely to be strongest) and placing them in water in a vase, then remove all the innermost petals, leaving only the five outer petals, and then smell the blossoms. This is best done by cutting the petals down, with scissors if you pluck some out, with fingers or tweezers, all the petals are likely to fall off the blossom. Then after making sure that you have the olfactory receptors needed to be able to detect the scent of R. moschata plena then you might wish to buy R. moschata. Some persons lack the olfactory receptors needed to detect scent in Tea class roses, I suspect the same may be true of Musk roses. Sometimes a rose plant takes a couple of years for it to develop its' fragrance. My neighbor had a clone of 'Secret' that was scentless for 3 years and then Voila! all the blooms the next summer were strongly perfumed. Good luck, Luxrosa |
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- Posted by carol6ma_7ari zones 6 %26 7a (My Page) on Mon, Jun 18, 12 at 20:40
| I picked a cluster and stuck it in a water glass on the table. A few hours later, I could smell the rather clove-like or carnation-like fragrance, but not strongly. Thanks! Carol |
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| In my cool coastal climate I often have to cut my roses and bring them inside for them to warn up before I can detect their scent. Diane |
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| Rosa moschata gets its fragrance from the stamens and not the petals, which explains why the single is more fragrant. |
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| Are you sure the rose is R. moschata plena? I am surprised that it can store enough 'stuff' overwinter in your climate to make 12 foot long canes the next year. Even in my best soils, winter knocks several of mine back severely. |
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