Your most fragrant iris?

Can we spicy or sweet...what is your most fragrant iris?

Sweet Iris
Iris pallida

I'll second Mittsy on that one.

me three

This one is the most fragrant one I have, or have ever smelled. But unfortunately it is a "pass~a~long" with no ID.

However, I think I have found its ID, and I recently bought some "Sunset Sky", which is an older iris, to see if they are the same thing. It seems like a very close match, if not the same thing.

If you like the colors, you may want to purchase a sunset sky. It does claim fragrance, and if it is the same as the one I have, it is exTREMely fragrant.

The ones in the picture can be smelled at a distance of over 6 feet away...

Pallida is a great one, too. Both Sunset sky and Pallida, planted together, would make a lovely pastel drift. :0)

Pallida also comes in a variegated variety, which is quite sought after:
http://www.coloradonga.org/documents/Week_4_Iris_pallida_Variegated.jpg
-T

I love Sweet Iris. I have one with large blooms and one with small. Also two varigated.

Seedpicker, how beautiful!!

This I call Unruffled White. It gets almost 3' tall and smells wonderful! Not licorace like a few I have. It may be an old variety. Any ideas on a name anyone?

My Sugar Blues is reblooming right now, and you don't need to go right up to it to smell it. The smell travels on the breeze. Sometimes I would call it sweet grape. Other times, it is just a wonderful sweet smell. I wish they could make cologne or body spray that smelled as nice.

Linda

http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/36676/

Try this for a picture of Sugar Blues.

Here is a picture of my Sugar Blues from this year. It is just a lovely plant - color and fragrance are wonderful.

Linda

Sugar Blues and English Cottage are my two most delicious and overwhelmingly fragrant irises.

English Cottage is beautiful, Laurie.

Linda

Grape Harvest
On a warm May day the smell of grapes fills the garden

That grape harvest makes me wish we had smellavision.

English Cottage is very pretty. Have to add these two to my want list.

Your Grape Harvest just looks like it will smell good. Very pretty.

Linda

I like "Gingersnap" the smell of rootbeer.

Scented Bubbles lives up to its name.

English Cottage by far

my mom's noid, it has a huge bi-color purple/blue flower, light on the top and very,very dark on the bottom and heavily ruffled. It smells like heaven, nothing quite like it.

I agree about Iris pallida, it would be hard to beat it. Not only is the scent heavenly, it permeates the whole garden in the late afternoon. Just this year I picked up some Scottish Warrior. The description says the scent is like a musky,spicey men's cologne, and so strong that you might not want to put it too close to your favorite sitting area because it tends to overpower more delicate scents. Sounds good to me! Anyone have any experience with this variety?

How about planting Timeless Moment where you want guests to leave quickly. It smells like cat pee.

So does Iris ' Lingering Love ' Aka- lingering tom cat

tazzy- I love the term "lingering tom cat" and use it all the time. May Night Salvia is a pain to deadhead because it really smells like lingering tom cat, but it's worth it when you get such rebloom.

Linda

Crimson Snow also has a lingering tom cat :o) I even wrote cat pee in my notes.

Latin Rock has a strong licorice scent.

Spiced Custard has a soapy licorice scent.

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I havve Spiced Custard and didn't check the smell. I will next year for sure.

Schreiner's CE catalog has a 'fragrant bouquet collection' of 11 for $49.95:

copper classic
dark passion
hemstitched
immortality
indigo princess
mary frances
new moon
pallida variegata
scented bubbles
thriller
vanity

Immortality wasn't a strong or perfumy scent for me. I'm thinking it was slightly soapy too.

Citoyen has a nice strong spicy smell.

Oldgardenrose

Schreiner's CE catalog has a 'fragrant bouquet collection' of 11 for $49.95:

copper classic - I have grow several year little if any scent
dark passion - used in crosses so I got closs also little or no smell
hemstitched - Unknown
immortality - little if any smell
indigo princess - never grew
mary frances - slight sweet can not smell if windy
new moon - never grew
pallida variegata - I have this one but truely never smelled will have to next spring
scented bubbles - Kids from this smell more but does have a distinct smell
thriller - Do not grow
vanity - faint is any

Just my 2 cents
Anita

Thanks for the info. I did not buy the set but I had thought about ordering
it for an aunt who loves scented irises. At least you didn't say cat pee.

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Timeless Moment. I'm hoping it will deter squirrels from digging in the iris bed.

http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/185552/

Smells great!! Southland Grape

Here is a picture of Serene Song (BB or IB)