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Mon, Jul 7, 14 at 14:03
| Now, I grow just a few Teas and Tea-relatives and all are pretty young. I'm not one of of those who cannot discern a fragrance on Teas, but up to now I could only discern the fruity, citrusy, greenish and fresh kind of notes on the ones I grow. I was reading about the tea smell which gave the class of roses their name but this escaped me. I thought that either this elusive tone was an exaggeration or that I simply couldn't smell it. Not anymore! This morning, I kneeled down to smell one of my young DdB blooms, an unusually double one for that matter. And there it was, the pure smell of fresh tea leaves out of the tin box. No other notes. Just this unmistakable tea smell. Was it the conditions? Was it the particularly double flower? Who knows? What's important is that I have smelled that smell and I'm a believer. Nik |
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| Congrats! Smell is such a personal experience. I'm glad you found your tea fragrance! |
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- Posted by poorbutroserich Nashville 7a (My Page) on Mon, Jul 7, 14 at 16:23
| Nik, I'm still waiting on that revelation. I did get a whiff of the "phenol" the other day. Was not pleasant to me. Congrats! Susan |
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| I can totally understand being excited about smelling a rose for the first time. I was very disappointed I haven't been able to smell my Evelyn and I went out yeaterday morning very early and finally got I smell her peachy fragrancce but as the day wore on I was unable to smell her. I had read that sometimes some roses have a better scent early in the morning. |
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- Posted by nikthegreek 9b/10a E of Athens (My Page) on Tue, Jul 8, 14 at 0:44
| Susan, no phenolic tones I can detect on DdB. I could only detect a very light fruity and grassy fragrance until yesterday when I smelled a pure tea leaf fragrance on a particularly well developed bloom. Nik |
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- Posted by Kippy-the-Hippy 10 Sunset 24 (My Page) on Tue, Jul 8, 14 at 1:13
| I never realized how different our sense of smell is, we had a party at moms and as a few of the guests were leaving I sent them home with some roses. One loved the scent from Don Juan!!! What scent???? I can't smell it at all. On the other hand I gave her a wonderful Munstead (thanks android spell check Munsters) Wood bloom and she did not smell anything. Very interesting |
This post was edited by Kippy-the-Hippy on Tue, Jul 8, 14 at 23:32
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| It really is individual. I loved the sweet, delicate fragrance of 'Olympiad.' Its' breeder was astonished. I watched a rose judge declaim that 'Golden Celebration' had no fragrance! I can't smell most Damask-y roses. Go figure. |
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- Posted by Kippy-the-Hippy 10 Sunset 24 (My Page) on Tue, Jul 8, 14 at 23:31
| lol just re-reading my post, I have to love how creative an android tablet can be. Munsters heheh |
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| My neighbor said my climbing Queen Elizabeth is fragrant. Go figure. I can't smell anything. But, like you, Nik, I was very excited the other day when my Pleasant Hill Cemetary which I believe is a tea-noisette smelled just like Jasmine Fancy tea--or, at least the jasmine fancy tea that Peets sells. I thought I was having an olfactory hallucination and kept smelling the flowers over and over. Jasmine fancy tea scent with every sniff! Kippy, yes, autocorrect can be hilarious. I wonder what a rose called Munsters Wood would look like? Anne |
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- Posted by comtessedelacouche 10b?South Australia (My Page) on Wed, Jul 9, 14 at 16:58
| Possibly the elusive 'Black Rose'? |
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