I'm really enjoying growing carnations and dianthus in general in the garden. I love the clove scent too; they're edible, and seem to have a few rebloom here and there after the full bloom in June.
I totally agree about the Andes chocolate mint scent. It's definitely more minty than chocolate. I think if you smell another mint and compare it to the chocolate mint it's easier to tell. My mom doesn't smell the chocolate, but I also don't think she eats chocolate mint candies like I do (they're my favorite.)
I have wild honeysuckle that grows in my garden (in northern Scotland) that smells completely intoxicating. It grows in a part of my garden which is woodland that I have been developing over the last 32 years. I did not plant the honeysuckle and I never need to do anything with it, other than cutting it back in the winter so that it doesn't smother my other flowers. It is completely low maintenance and overhangs an area where I have a wooden gazebo. It wafts its heady fragrance over me when I sit there in summer evenings with a cuppa recovering from my day's gardening. I have many daffodils, roses, peonies, phlox and most of the other flowers you mention in your video but, in my opinion, nothing comes close to the perfume of wild honeysuckle.
Honeysuckle grows wild here in the woods in Maryland too. It blooms at the same time the wild roses do and that combination is wonderful. I grew up with honeysuckle in my yard, and we would suck the nectar out. Nice memories.
Gardenias are the best smelling flower for me. I actually had them in my wedding bouquet and all my wedding flowers many years ago. I live in zone 7 and last year I found a small hybrid gardenia bush that was for zone 7-10. I planted three and this last winter was there first year. We shall see if they come back and bloom this year. Here's hoping.
Good for you! Gardenias are high on my list- such a buttery lusciousness. I tried to grow one inside once... Hope all 3 come back for you! I'm in zone 7 too, so I'm thinking... :)
we had jasmine growing outside our bedroom window when we were little. The first sign of spring was their fragrance wafting in through the window. Also as far as I am concerned a rose needs to have a scent, which is one of the reasons I love David Austin so much. They bred their blooms with scent being one of the criteria
Freesias are incredible, especially in spring and late spring. And they come in a broad variaty of colours. They are just not particularly long (but how many spring flowers are?). Tuberoses smell nice and grow very long, but are very strong, so never use too many (where I live that would never happen as they are very expencive in a bouquet). For me, the best smelling flower is jasmine. I could smell that flower every day for the rest of mylife and never get bored. I also love the smell of locust in bloom. What else? Magnolias are gorgeous if you like a tree in your garden and they can even bloom twice a year if it is warm enough in autumn. They are great and a breath of fresh air (aspect wise) in spring bouquets. They smell nice and sweet, but not exactly out of this world. Wild carnations are also lovely, they just arent very high for bouquets. God, I miss my grandma's garden!
My dentist front office had a vase of beautiful little blue/purple flowers that smelled divine. I asked what they were and she said they were just some flowers that grow in a ditch. I found later that they are Dames Rocket. I searched until I found the seeds. They will forever be known to me as Michigan Ditch Flowers!😊
I adore the lemon fizz geranium. I had a scented My Little Pony who smelled exactly like it when I was a kid. I hope I can find some it would be amazing in bouquets.
You will love the lemon balm, Nicole. It’s such a lovely light lemon scent and is a great addition to a salad. Just toss in some of the small leaves or cut the big ones into thin strips. It makes a great tea also. I’ve been growing it for years in my herb garden. It will self seed also, but they are easy to pull if they go where you don’t want them. Transplant well too. It will wilt in water when you first pick it, but then will firm up again. I’ve had the same plant for 30+ years and have cut away numerous chunks of it and shared with friends and family. It just keeps going here in zone 6 New England. Cut it back when it gets leggy and it gives you a new flush of foliage. Grows very similar to catmint or oregano. Happy growing.
I am just here to say thank you for brightening my day. I love how real you are and I always feel like I'm visiting a bestie when I watch your channel. Wishing you continued success in 2022.
Freesia is one of my favorite flowers! And the smell! They have the most delicious sweet smell...just the right kind for me. I have been growing them for years and they multiply like crazy. You should give it a try! Definitely a freesia fan here.
Idlelea when I had Covid, my friends dropped off the gift basket, including a large bouquet of lilies and ice where they help heal me. I smell them all day long and they were so beautiful. Also, I was happy to have my sense of smell but I think they’re super high frequency. Love the lilies please give them to anybody that’s not feeling well because it really helped me get better.
If Love had a scent it would be freesias; smells definitely like fruit loops, but with a bit more sophistication to it. And YES, I think Bells of Ireland which I grow every year, smells like celery and apple! What a great description!
Hi, Nicole 👋🏻. Beware of the Lemon Balm! 🍋 I live in Boston, Zone 6 and that plant 🌱 will take over! I do love it though. I rub on it to keep the mosquitoes 🦟 away! Have a Blessed Day 😊💐
LMAO You silly arse! Here in Colorado you know it's Spring when you drive around with your windows down just to smell all of the delicious Lilacs! I love the fresh smell of Carnations. And a few others you mentioned will be new to my Gardens the Spring, I look forward to smelling them. I've grown Allysum for many years now and never noticed any smell. This was fun. Thank you. 😂
I love your hoeing ain't easy shirt, truth be told! Growing up my mom used to always have gardenias planted by the front porch. The smell is intoxicating when it floats through the warm summer breeze and whips across your nostrils. It's one of those that you have to close your eyes for a minute to take it all in. We would pick off flowerheads and let them float in a bowl of water on the dining table.
After one of your recent videos, I ordered stock flowers, lemon, lime and cinnamon basil from Bakers Creek. I also ordered 2 of the "photo organizers" from Michael's (rainbow, of course) 😊. Clear is so boring 🙄. Anyway, I did receive both orders recently. First time ever, my seeds are organized. Thank you for providing helpful and fun advice.
Great video! I like most of the sweet smelling flowers too and need to still smell some of them. I’d add snapdragons. I love the subtle sweet smell they offer, as well as sweet William. I grew chocolate mint last year and do think it smells like chocolate and mint! Same with pineapple sage. It’s really Devine and I used it in some of my flower bouquets last year. For me feverfew has been a stinky one, lol. Still love it though. Thanks so much, I love watching your channel. 💕
Haha! Maybe, it’s the mix I had last year. It was the costa mix from Johnny’s. Yes! I am growing regular carnations the first time this year, so excited to smell those too. 😃
You NEED to grow tuberose! We have some in a pot that we have grown for years now and we ALWAYS look forward to the smell. VERY long stems but we’re not sure how it lasts as a cut flower 🤔 They bloom from the bottom up on the stem. We would describe the scent as a gardenia, lilac and a plumeria had a baby that’s what it smells like. Absolute Heaven ☺️
My favorite smelling flower is Heliotropium! Don't know if it's a good cut flower but if you have it in the garden... the smell is so yummie "the odor profile is a warm delicate powdery floral with vanilla and marzipan notes and a trace of spicy licorice". I once had a circular patch 1 meter across near the back door and the beautiful smell traveled into the house. And I love the color 2.
We sell scented geraniums in our mosquito repellent porch pot mixes at the garden center I work at. They smell very strongly like citronella. Super easy to grow too
I love that you include the outtakes. 😆 I was waiting for my favorite flower on your list and you didn't disappoint. I happen to have 'Moonstone' peony among my collection and hope it blooms this year. The peony grower I bought it from said it was his favorite, too. Ah, that room of Lilacs. I can almost smell them. The neighbor behind me has a long hedge of them and I love working outside when they perfume the air. My 70-year-old housing development is named "Lilac Way." I can't believe you've never smelled Freesia! A flower often used in bridal bouquets. One of my favorite fragrances, but not hardy in Zone 4b. I should give carnations a try. When I used to wear perfume the only one I'd wear was White Shoulders. It smelled like carnations. Lily of the Valley was my grandmother's signature fragrance. Plants from my neighbor's yard have migrated to mine and I yanked many out last year to make way for hydrangeas. I may have to make space for some Dame's Rocket. Is that perennial in our zone? I planted some decades ago and don't remember if they came back the following year. Such a beautiful scent.
Nice! The Dame's Rocket reseeds itself, I'm not sure if it's a true perennial or if it's just dropping seed but it comes back in the same spots every year all over my county.
I just realized you're at 40,000 subscribers Nicole. When I found your channel a little over a year ago, you were at 4,000 something..... great job 👏 In so happy for you!
I love the smell of lilacs, but my absolute favourite flower smell is lupine! It's a very slightly scented flower, so you kinda have to shove your face in there 😆 but it's SO beautiful. Floral and spicy...so amazing, I wish I could find perfume, candles, room sprays in that smell 😍
Bought chocolate mint because the deer won't eat it. Small leaves. Doesn't spread like a weed. And to me it has a not overwhelming smell of a really good mint chocolate bar.
My Rose Scented Geraniums smell awesome on my patio in their pot. We grow them in a pot on the patio just for scent. So I bring that pot inside for winter in Zone 7a and they are making it. We love it.
Frisian is a wonderful, light floral smell and yes, I LOVE marigold. My grandma grew some always and she would let me dead head them. I couldn’t touch or deadhead anything except those tough little marigold. Lol. Good memories. 💕
I loved this video as I'm planning on getting more fragrant plants for my veranda container jungle. My most nostalgic scent is definitely lilacs (they remind me of my grandma's house up in the mountains), any kind of jasmin, gardenias, honeysuckles and of course Cestrum nocturnum, which is what my childhood memories are covered in. I also love hyacinths (I just found one named like my dad and I'm looking forward to smelling it and remembering him), freesias (which I already bought plants in bloom and my balcony smells lovely) and brugmansias, oh my--- the best summer scent!! I recently bought a Sarcococca too and I can't stop sniffing it, I love it, I only hope it'll last through our heatwaves, so I can have it every winter. Have a wonderful weekend!! 😊
One off-putting flower for me is Feverfew! A bunch of my flower farming friends love it, and I have tried to convince my nose to except it, but UGHHH! Thanks for the description of the Bells of Ireland scent....those are SOOO pretty, but I didn't find the scent very appealing, maybe if I tell my nose what it is smelling like, I can grow fonder of it! YES, YES to Stock, Sweet Williams, Sweet Peas, Carnations, and a bunch of others that you mentioned! VERY HELPFUL video...THANK YOU!
Marigolds might’ve been the first seeds I sowed as a child. I remember sowing nasturtiums too. I didn’t know that Bells of Ireland had a scent. I’d like to try growing that one sometime.
It's my birthday and what a lovely video to watch on it!!! I do LOVE marigold fragrance. My great Aunt always grew them with her tomatoes. And, I love the memories of the smell and the smell itself. Thanks for all you do. love, hugs, prayers.
Hyacinth has a umm... poopy fragrance for me, I love the flowers but can't with the fragrance. I have to agree about the freesia. Yummy! So many lovely scents! I love this list! Here in So Cal, society garlic is planted all over the place in center medians. They smell is horrendous! We have a pot of string of pearls and its flowers are just tiny puffs that smell like cloves. So good!
I grow about 100 varieties of roses, and I would say Double Delight has to be my favorite Hybrid Tea. Princess Alexandra of Kent is my favorite scent of a David Austin rose. Sweet peas are amazing. Love the smell of star gazer lily, but they can overwhelm. I grew a gardenia on my front porch last summer. It was my grandma's favorite flower, so brings back memories of her. They smell almost like sweet perfume with baby powder. Skunk cabbage grows out here in ponds, which stink----like skunk. 🤪
Had freesia in my wedding flowers. They too are a wonderfully sweet smelling flower. I've had difficulty growing them myself but I'm getting again this year.
The arrangement you made for your mom was so pretty. The Apple blossom made it feel high end. Hopefully you can try freesia next year because they smell great.
Sweet Annie , can you speak to when to harvest and how to harvest? I’ve planted some for first time but it doesn’t seem straightforward on how to harvest. Appreciate your time , and condolences as well , Grandpas are pretty special 🙏 💚
I'm really looking forward to growing Bells of Ireland!! Lilacs and gardenias bring me back to my childhood. Lilac being the state flower (NH) was always around. Gardenias remind me of my 2nd grade teachers perfume. That was a minute ago lol That is some serious memory scent
An extremely sweet smelling one is Paper Whites!! I love them to force early spring but usually end up moving them outside after awhile they are so strong….
This just goes to show... maybe this is a love/hate flower? This is number one (by far) on my worst smelling flowers of all time list. I can't stand to even walk past them in the stores!
Marigolds are one of the first flowers that are grown from seed. I still love them, although as I have aged the scent has become irritating to my senses. Thank you for blogging this educational video. It is giving me a boost to try a couple of new flowers this year. Again, thank you.
My favorite smelling rose I cant wait until my peonies mature! They smell sooooo good! I didnt like the smell of marigolds at first but throughout the years it began to "grow" on me! 😉😆 I think that might be the first flower I ever grew from seed too. Idk I can't remember if it was marigolds or zinnias & oh I fell in love with Carnations last year! I'm growing tons more this year! I don't know about chocolate mint but I know that lemon mint smells like lemon!
Mmmmmmmh, freesias! That's a good smell! I'm planting cinnamon and lemon basil this year because of you and I wish I could find bells of Ireland here in Spain but there's no way. Thank you so much for your videos! 💚💚💚💚💚
I love that I just learned Bells of Ireland has a nice scent. This will be my first year trying them. I waaayyyy over did it with seeds and dahlia tubers, not sure where I will plant everything at this point. AND I'm not sure what seeds I can start right now in my greenhouse but it will be fun! I'm worried about starting them too soon and can't plant them out right away, so I keep telling myself to be patient. It's hard.
13.08 I work at a garden centre and of you are looking for scents the scented geraniums are amazing there a lot of variety and they often smell quite strong
I always thought that I liked the smell of marigolds until last summer when I grew the giant tall marigolds mixed in with my tomato beds. They did indeed help protect my tomatoes from pests, but I couldn’t stand it when they would rub against my clothes and I would go inside smelling like them.😝😂 I must be a slow learner though. I plan on growing them again this year. LOL
Thank you for including sweet Annie! A girlfriend gave me some to make dried bouquets out of and they remind me fresh mowed hay. I gotta get me some seeds!
I saw this, and had to look it up. I'm not sure, but I think that's what's in the neglected garden that's come with the house I bought... I'd describe the smell as more spicy, but interesting... I have to investigate further tomorrow...
We have citronella geraniums and people love it in arrangements. We planted it to keep the west nile mosquitoes away. Love marigolds as it also reminds me of gardening with my Mother when I was young. One filler I think is beautiful but smells like cat urine is the mystic spires saliva.
Freesia IS delicious! Planted my first last year in a pot near the front door.. I kept getting wafts of something delicious every time walking by and I couldn’t figure out what it was! Couldn’t believe such a small bloom was producing such a strong scent
I grew up mostly in the tropics. (Australian Outback and Hawai'i...I know what a combination) so my favourite floral scents tend to be from those places. Plumeria, aka frangipani...unbelievable! Depending on the ones you have, they can smell like peaches, lemons, or even have a subtle spice fragrance to them. Cactus flowers. Yes they only bloom at night, and under certain conditions and only last for the one night, but the scent is amazing! I drove through the Mojave one year at night in April and it smelled like heaven. Ginger, aka awapuhi, flowering ginger smells AMAZING! Boronia. I remember as a kid when these would bloom in the Outback and the whole place just smelled amazing. It does have a musky scent that some people don't like, so it could be compared to marigold in that sense.
Tuberose have a very strong romantic smell, but like lillies, a little goes a long way. Freesias are sweet and fabulous, like sweet peas, they fill the air. Gardenia is sweet and strong, i love it for a corsage. Southern California has many towns with eucalyptus trees, it is an herbal, lemon, menthol fresh scent. Now i live in the midwest I am embracing all the new sweet scents like lilac and peony, ans always roses!
I’m really hoping that the moles will stay away from my bulbs this year since I planted allium- plan with a purpose! Thanks for the list, hugs and love from Texas!
Oh Yes ..... You -- Me ..... MARIGOLDS .... LOVE Them and the same as you ... was my first experience with planting flowers ..... In and around my garden I will most likely have 10 to maybe 15 Marigolds ..... Well ... I will also have other flowers too ... Hehee ..... Thanks for sharing this good information ..... Sweet Peas and Dame's Rocket will be my add on plants this year ..... Hugs
I grow lots of chocolate mint and it’s subtle, but yes it does have a hint of chocolate to it 😊. I also grow a lemon scented geranium and WOW! It’s exactly like lemon scented cleaning products, but in a good way… if that makes sense 😜. I bring a plant indoors each winter to take cuttings in the spring. They root super easy.
Love your channel and all the beautiful flowers you grow. I always admire the gorgeous flower picture hanging behind you during your video's - is it something we can purchase for ourselves? I absolutely love it!! Looking forward to another season following all your beautiful flowers (and appreciate the hard work you put into it all)♥
I love carnations! I buy them every couple of weeks and they last forever, but I change water every few days. They smell like cloves to me. I also love roses and lavender. Also I really like hyssop and Nepita. They have a minty smell. Orange blossoms are amazing too!
Pop-pop being flabbergasted at the sight of the Bells of Ireland is the most wholesome, purest, most adorable moment in history. I remember when I started working as a florist, I had the same reaction the first time I saw them, they look so alien, and that bright green is so distinctive and rare, they look like something out of a cartoon or a surreal painting. Love them. Edit: For me, one of the stinkiest flowers in the whole world is Gypsophilla, jeez weez, they smell baaaaaaddddd. I usually joke that if that's what baby's breath smells like I'll make sure to stay the heck away from any and all babies. They smell like... imagine running a marathon, wiping your sweaty armpits and feet with moldy newspaper and then leaving it to dry and then smelling it the next day. Disgusting. And people get married holding bunches and bunches of that revolting thing, unbelievable.
I was a florist for years, and whenever we got in purple carnations, my senses were in heaven. The clove scent is amazing!
I'm really enjoying growing carnations and dianthus in general in the garden. I love the clove scent too; they're edible, and seem to have a few rebloom here and there after the full bloom in June.
Chocolate mint smells like those Andes candies that are half chocolate and half mint. Definitely have a chocolate smell.
I totally agree about the Andes chocolate mint scent. It's definitely more minty than chocolate. I think if you smell another mint and compare it to the chocolate mint it's easier to tell. My mom doesn't smell the chocolate, but I also don't think she eats chocolate mint candies like I do (they're my favorite.)
The video of your grandpa and the Bells of Ireland is my all time favorite clip of yours 😂😂😂
He's something special. I cherish every clip!
I have wild honeysuckle that grows in my garden (in northern Scotland) that smells completely intoxicating. It grows in a part of my garden which is woodland that I have been developing over the last 32 years. I did not plant the honeysuckle and I never need to do anything with it, other than cutting it back in the winter so that it doesn't smother my other flowers. It is completely low maintenance and overhangs an area where I have a wooden gazebo. It wafts its heady fragrance over me when I sit there in summer evenings with a cuppa recovering from my day's gardening. I have many daffodils, roses, peonies, phlox and most of the other flowers you mention in your video but, in my opinion, nothing comes close to the perfume of wild honeysuckle.
Honeysuckle grows wild here in the woods in Maryland too. It blooms at the same time the wild roses do and that combination is wonderful. I grew up with honeysuckle in my yard, and we would suck the nectar out. Nice memories.
I love how Hyacinth smells. I actually own a perfume that smells just like it.
Gardenias are the best smelling flower for me. I actually had them in my wedding bouquet and all my wedding flowers many years ago. I live in zone 7 and last year I found a small hybrid gardenia bush that was for zone 7-10. I planted three and this last winter was there first year. We shall see if they come back and bloom this year. Here's hoping.
Gardenias or Jasmine! I'm living for it!
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ooooo jasmine is dreammmy
I had Gardenias in my wedding bouquet also - my favorite flower - along with Stephanotis
Good for you! Gardenias are high on my list- such a buttery lusciousness. I tried to grow one inside once... Hope all 3 come back for you! I'm in zone 7 too, so I'm thinking... :)
we had jasmine growing outside our bedroom window when we were little. The first sign of spring was their fragrance wafting in through the window. Also as far as I am concerned a rose needs to have a scent, which is one of the reasons I love David Austin so much. They bred their blooms with scent being one of the criteria
I love carnations. The bring back great ‘smemories’ for me 🥰
🤣 love it!
I absolutely love the smell of marigolds. I actually found an essential oil on line so I can smell spicy like a marigold!
It's so good!
Freesias are incredible, especially in spring and late spring. And they come in a broad variaty of colours. They are just not particularly long (but how many spring flowers are?). Tuberoses smell nice and grow very long, but are very strong, so never use too many (where I live that would never happen as they are very expencive in a bouquet). For me, the best smelling flower is jasmine. I could smell that flower every day for the rest of mylife and never get bored. I also love the smell of locust in bloom. What else? Magnolias are gorgeous if you like a tree in your garden and they can even bloom twice a year if it is warm enough in autumn. They are great and a breath of fresh air (aspect wise) in spring bouquets. They smell nice and sweet, but not exactly out of this world. Wild carnations are also lovely, they just arent very high for bouquets. God, I miss my grandma's garden!
Carnations are one of my favorite smells. My favorite is lily of the valley and hyacinth.
My dentist front office had a vase of beautiful little blue/purple flowers that smelled divine. I asked what they were and she said they were just some flowers that grow in a ditch. I found later that they are Dames Rocket. I searched until I found the seeds. They will forever be known to me as Michigan Ditch Flowers!😊
Heliotrope! My absolute favorite smelling flower. Incredibly sweet, vanilla fragrance. So good...... 😊
I adore the lemon fizz geranium. I had a scented My Little Pony who smelled exactly like it when I was a kid. I hope I can find some it would be amazing in bouquets.
You will love the lemon balm, Nicole. It’s such a lovely light lemon scent and is a great addition to a salad. Just toss in some of the small leaves or cut the big ones into thin strips. It makes a great tea also. I’ve been growing it for years in my herb garden. It will self seed also, but they are easy to pull if they go where you don’t want them. Transplant well too. It will wilt in water when you first pick it, but then will firm up again. I’ve had the same plant for 30+ years and have cut away numerous chunks of it and shared with friends and family. It just keeps going here in zone 6 New England. Cut it back when it gets leggy and it gives you a new flush of foliage. Grows very similar to catmint or oregano. Happy growing.
Chocolate mint in coffee (hot or especially iced) is amazing!
I am just here to say thank you for brightening my day. I love how real you are and I always feel like I'm visiting a bestie when I watch your channel. Wishing you continued success in 2022.
So true! She’s fun and a good teacher too!
Freesia is one of my favorite flowers! And the smell! They have the most delicious sweet smell...just the right kind for me. I have been growing them for years and they multiply like crazy. You should give it a try! Definitely a freesia fan here.
Irises....delicious & so unique 💜
Idlelea when I had Covid, my friends dropped off the gift basket, including a large bouquet of lilies and ice where they help heal me. I smell them all day long and they were so beautiful. Also, I was happy to have my sense of smell but I think they’re super high frequency. Love the lilies please give them to anybody that’s not feeling well because it really helped me get better.
If Love had a scent it would be freesias; smells definitely like fruit loops, but with a bit more sophistication to it. And YES, I think Bells of Ireland which I grow every year, smells like celery and apple! What a great description!
Hi, Nicole 👋🏻. Beware of the Lemon Balm! 🍋 I live in Boston, Zone 6 and that plant 🌱 will take over! I do love it though. I rub on it to keep the mosquitoes 🦟 away! Have a Blessed Day 😊💐
LMAO You silly arse! Here in Colorado you know it's Spring when you drive around with your windows down just to smell all of the delicious Lilacs! I love the fresh smell of Carnations. And a few others you mentioned will be new to my Gardens the Spring, I look forward to smelling them. I've grown Allysum for many years now and never noticed any smell. This was fun. Thank you. 😂
Lillies are my favorite scent. I love them so much.
Thank you for sharing your sense of humor.
I love your hoeing ain't easy shirt, truth be told! Growing up my mom used to always have gardenias planted by the front porch. The smell is intoxicating when it floats through the warm summer breeze and whips across your nostrils. It's one of those that you have to close your eyes for a minute to take it all in. We would pick off flowerheads and let them float in a bowl of water on the dining table.
I’m in LOVE with Tuberose’s they smell like an amazing perfect wedding day. Used as a boutonnière heaven! I grew them in a pots. You’ll love them!
In Victorian Times, they used to lay the leaves of orange scented geranium in the bottom of cake tins the add the flavor to the cakes.
After one of your recent videos, I ordered stock flowers, lemon, lime and cinnamon basil from Bakers Creek. I also ordered 2 of the "photo organizers" from Michael's (rainbow, of course) 😊. Clear is so boring 🙄. Anyway, I did receive both orders recently. First time ever, my seeds are organized. Thank you for providing helpful and fun advice.
Great video! I like most of the sweet smelling flowers too and need to still smell some of them. I’d add snapdragons. I love the subtle sweet smell they offer, as well as sweet William. I grew chocolate mint last year and do think it smells like chocolate and mint! Same with pineapple sage. It’s really Devine and I used it in some of my flower bouquets last year. For me feverfew has been a stinky one, lol. Still love it though. Thanks so much, I love watching your channel. 💕
I have not come across a snapdragon with a fragrance! I’ll sniff harder 🤣 Yes, Sweet William is in the dianthus family with carnations 😊💐
Haha! Maybe, it’s the mix I had last year. It was the costa mix from Johnny’s. Yes! I am growing regular carnations the first time this year, so excited to smell those too. 😃
You NEED to grow tuberose! We have some in a pot that we have grown for years now and we ALWAYS look forward to the smell. VERY long stems but we’re not sure how it lasts as a cut flower 🤔 They bloom from the bottom up on the stem. We would describe the scent as a gardenia, lilac and a plumeria had a baby that’s what it smells like. Absolute Heaven ☺️
My favorite smelling flower is Heliotropium! Don't know if it's a good cut flower but if you have it in the garden... the smell is so yummie "the odor profile is a warm delicate powdery floral with vanilla and marzipan notes and a trace of spicy licorice". I once had a circular patch 1 meter across near the back door and the beautiful smell traveled into the house. And I love the color 2.
That's one of my favorites too! Smells delicious :)
I love all of these (except marigolds lol). Another on my favourites list is Heliotrope, common name Cherry Pie.
We sell scented geraniums in our mosquito repellent porch pot mixes at the garden center I work at. They smell very strongly like citronella. Super easy to grow too
I love that you include the outtakes. 😆
I was waiting for my favorite flower on your list and you didn't disappoint. I happen to have 'Moonstone' peony among my collection and hope it blooms this year. The peony grower I bought it from said it was his favorite, too.
Ah, that room of Lilacs. I can almost smell them. The neighbor behind me has a long hedge of them and I love working outside when they perfume the air. My 70-year-old housing development is named "Lilac Way."
I can't believe you've never smelled Freesia! A flower often used in bridal bouquets. One of my favorite fragrances, but not hardy in Zone 4b.
I should give carnations a try. When I used to wear perfume the only one I'd wear was White Shoulders. It smelled like carnations.
Lily of the Valley was my grandmother's signature fragrance. Plants from my neighbor's yard have migrated to mine and I yanked many out last year to make way for hydrangeas. I may have to make space for some Dame's Rocket. Is that perennial in our zone? I planted some decades ago and don't remember if they came back the following year. Such a beautiful scent.
Nice! The Dame's Rocket reseeds itself, I'm not sure if it's a true perennial or if it's just dropping seed but it comes back in the same spots every year all over my county.
I just realized you're at 40,000 subscribers Nicole. When I found your channel a little over a year ago, you were at 4,000 something..... great job 👏 In so happy for you!
I love sweet Annie. A wreath made of it will stay scented for months.
So true about the daisies! I grew some shasta daisies, the santé variety, and while they were beautiful, my god they stank!
I love the smell of lilacs, but my absolute favourite flower smell is lupine! It's a very slightly scented flower, so you kinda have to shove your face in there 😆 but it's SO beautiful. Floral and spicy...so amazing, I wish I could find perfume, candles, room sprays in that smell 😍
Chocolate mint smells and tastes like a thin mint, I love it! I grew carnations this last year and yes they knocked my socks off!
Apple blossoms are amazing! My pear smells like rotting flesh though. I can't stand being downwind of it in the spring.
Enjoying my carnations too!!! Love that they're edible!
Bought chocolate mint because the deer won't eat it. Small leaves. Doesn't spread like a weed. And to me it has a not overwhelming smell of a really good mint chocolate bar.
We have lots and lots of Anise Hyssop. I use this in cut flower bouquets, it self sows, and it wonderful for the pollinators. I'm in zone 5 in NH.
Orange blossoms are heavenly
My Rose Scented Geraniums smell awesome on my patio in their pot.
We grow them in a pot on the patio just for scent. So I bring that pot inside for winter in Zone 7a and they are making it.
We love it.
Mock orange.....my all time favorite!
Frisian is a wonderful, light floral smell and yes, I LOVE marigold. My grandma grew some always and she would let me dead head them. I couldn’t touch or deadhead anything except those tough little marigold. Lol. Good memories. 💕
I loved this video as I'm planning on getting more fragrant plants for my veranda container jungle.
My most nostalgic scent is definitely lilacs (they remind me of my grandma's house up in the mountains), any kind of jasmin, gardenias, honeysuckles and of course Cestrum nocturnum, which is what my childhood memories are covered in.
I also love hyacinths (I just found one named like my dad and I'm looking forward to smelling it and remembering him), freesias (which I already bought plants in bloom and my balcony smells lovely) and brugmansias, oh my--- the best summer scent!!
I recently bought a Sarcococca too and I can't stop sniffing it, I love it, I only hope it'll last through our heatwaves, so I can have it every winter.
Have a wonderful weekend!! 😊
I grew Bells of Ireland last year and loved the scent, which was like a hint of vanilla.
One off-putting flower for me is Feverfew! A bunch of my flower farming friends love it, and I have tried to convince my nose to except it, but UGHHH! Thanks for the description of the Bells of Ireland scent....those are SOOO pretty, but I didn't find the scent very appealing, maybe if I tell my nose what it is smelling like, I can grow fonder of it! YES, YES to Stock, Sweet Williams, Sweet Peas, Carnations, and a bunch of others that you mentioned! VERY HELPFUL video...THANK YOU!
Marigolds might’ve been the first seeds I sowed as a child. I remember sowing nasturtiums too. I didn’t know that Bells of Ireland had a scent. I’d like to try growing that one sometime.
For me it's lilly of the valley I love it, it took me years to get it established but now it's there and I'm happy
Great video, love four o clocks bring back sweet evening memories. Keep these informative videos coming.
Once again, you have been both entertaining and informative...made me smile.
You should grow "Spanish Bluebell" bloom same time as daffodils.
It's my birthday and what a lovely video to watch on it!!! I do LOVE marigold fragrance. My great Aunt always grew them with her tomatoes. And, I love the memories of the smell and the smell itself. Thanks for all you do. love, hugs, prayers.
Hyacinth has a umm... poopy fragrance for me, I love the flowers but can't with the fragrance. I have to agree about the freesia. Yummy! So many lovely scents! I love this list! Here in So Cal, society garlic is planted all over the place in center medians. They smell is horrendous! We have a pot of string of pearls and its flowers are just tiny puffs that smell like cloves. So good!
I highly appreciate all the added videos and pics, especially of the whole plants growing. That was super helpful!
I appreciate you appreciating me. All 7 hours of editing LOL
I grow about 100 varieties of roses, and I would say Double Delight has to be my favorite Hybrid Tea. Princess Alexandra of Kent is my favorite scent of a David Austin rose. Sweet peas
are amazing. Love the smell of star gazer lily, but they can overwhelm. I grew a gardenia on my front porch last summer. It was my grandma's favorite flower, so brings back memories of her. They smell almost like sweet perfume with baby powder.
Skunk cabbage grows out here in ponds, which stink----like skunk. 🤪
Had freesia in my wedding flowers. They too are a wonderfully sweet smelling flower. I've had difficulty growing them myself but I'm getting again this year.
Just ordered the book "Cut Fowers" by Allan Armitage, you talked about a while ago . Yay!!!
I love using purple basil and Thai basil for the striking color and amazing smell
The arrangement you made for your mom was so pretty. The Apple blossom made it feel high end. Hopefully you can try freesia next year because they smell great.
Oh, Nicole, you must smell a gardenia!!! Absolutely beautiful fragrance!
I love gardenias; they smell like Trix cereal!
Gardenias are definitely one of the best!!!
Sweet Annie , can you speak to when to harvest and how to harvest? I’ve planted some for first time but it doesn’t seem straightforward on how to harvest. Appreciate your time , and condolences as well , Grandpas are pretty special 🙏 💚
My Gardenia tree is probably the BEST smell I’ve ever smelled . I love it and it blooms 2x a year in Ga. Also the wild azaleas coke in second place !
Lucky you!🤗
I'm really looking forward to growing Bells of Ireland!! Lilacs and gardenias bring me back to my childhood. Lilac being the state flower (NH) was always around. Gardenias remind me of my 2nd grade teachers perfume. That was a minute ago lol That is some serious memory scent
An extremely sweet smelling one is Paper Whites!! I love them to force early spring but usually end up moving them outside after awhile they are so strong….
They smell terrible to me, like rottenness. 😂
This just goes to show... maybe this is a love/hate flower? This is number one (by far) on my worst smelling flowers of all time list. I can't stand to even walk past them in the stores!
Sweet Alyssa is the dames rocket of my childhood. Also, magnolia flowers are a wonderful lemony smell
Another to add to your list is Anise Hyssop...smells so good!
Carnations are my favorite smell and clove is the Christmas scent you discribed
Marigolds are one of the first flowers that are grown from seed. I still love them, although as I have aged the scent has become irritating to my senses. Thank you for blogging this educational video. It is giving me a boost to try a couple of new flowers this year. Again, thank you.
My favorite smelling rose I cant wait until my peonies mature! They smell sooooo good! I didnt like the smell of marigolds at first but throughout the years it began to "grow" on me! 😉😆 I think that might be the first flower I ever grew from seed too. Idk I can't remember if it was marigolds or zinnias & oh I fell in love with Carnations last year! I'm growing tons more this year! I don't know about chocolate mint but I know that lemon mint smells like lemon!
Mmmmmmmh, freesias! That's a good smell! I'm planting cinnamon and lemon basil this year because of you and I wish I could find bells of Ireland here in Spain but there's no way. Thank you so much for your videos! 💚💚💚💚💚
I love that I just learned Bells of Ireland has a nice scent. This will be my first year trying them. I waaayyyy over did it with seeds and dahlia tubers, not sure where I will plant everything at this point. AND I'm not sure what seeds I can start right now in my greenhouse but it will be fun! I'm worried about starting them too soon and can't plant them out right away, so I keep telling myself to be patient. It's hard.
That was REALLY GREAT! Thank you 🤗
I love GARDENIA, smells amazing ! 😍
You will love scented Geraniums. I love the Nutmeg variety. I don't have any right now and you mentioning them is going to make me shop! :)
Chocolate mint actually smells like those After Eight Mint Chocolates! Love it!
13.08 I work at a garden centre and of you are looking for scents the scented geraniums are amazing there a lot of variety and they often smell quite strong
I always thought that I liked the smell of marigolds until last summer when I grew the giant tall marigolds mixed in with my tomato beds. They did indeed help protect my tomatoes from pests, but I couldn’t stand it when they would rub against my clothes and I would go inside smelling like them.😝😂 I must be a slow learner though. I plan on growing them again this year. LOL
Thank you for including sweet Annie! A girlfriend gave me some to make dried bouquets out of and they remind me fresh mowed hay. I gotta get me some seeds!
I saw this, and had to look it up. I'm not sure, but I think that's what's in the neglected garden that's come with the house I bought... I'd describe the smell as more spicy, but interesting... I have to investigate further tomorrow...
Freesias are the best...
If you ever thought about giving them a go just do it. They smell amazing.
We have citronella geraniums and people love it in arrangements. We planted it to keep the west nile mosquitoes away. Love marigolds as it also reminds me of gardening with my Mother when I was young. One filler I think is beautiful but smells like cat urine is the mystic spires saliva.
This was such a fun and entertaining video! I've learned so much, thank you!
Abyssinian Gladiolus (Acidanthera), known as fragrant gladiolus, sword lily and peacock orchid has an amazing fragrance as well.
Freesias -- I smell them before I see them. The best smell in the world!
You crack me up! I would love to visit your bouquet bar!
Freesia IS delicious! Planted my first last year in a pot near the front door.. I kept getting wafts of something delicious every time walking by and I couldn’t figure out what it was! Couldn’t believe such a small bloom was producing such a strong scent
The allium are a great plant to use in your flower bed if you have deer…I have found it to deter browsing
Your content is so informative and creative. Great video!
I grew up mostly in the tropics. (Australian Outback and Hawai'i...I know what a combination) so my favourite floral scents tend to be from those places. Plumeria, aka frangipani...unbelievable! Depending on the ones you have, they can smell like peaches, lemons, or even have a subtle spice fragrance to them. Cactus flowers. Yes they only bloom at night, and under certain conditions and only last for the one night, but the scent is amazing! I drove through the Mojave one year at night in April and it smelled like heaven. Ginger, aka awapuhi, flowering ginger smells AMAZING! Boronia. I remember as a kid when these would bloom in the Outback and the whole place just smelled amazing. It does have a musky scent that some people don't like, so it could be compared to marigold in that sense.
Tuberose have a very strong romantic smell, but like lillies, a little goes a long way. Freesias are sweet and fabulous, like sweet peas, they fill the air. Gardenia is sweet and strong, i love it for a corsage. Southern California has many towns with eucalyptus trees, it is an herbal, lemon, menthol fresh scent.
Now i live in the midwest I am embracing all the new sweet scents like lilac and peony, ans always roses!
I’m really hoping that the moles will stay away from my bulbs this year since I planted allium- plan with a purpose! Thanks for the list, hugs and love from Texas!
Oh Yes ..... You -- Me ..... MARIGOLDS .... LOVE Them and the same as you ... was my first experience with planting flowers ..... In and around my garden I will most likely have 10 to maybe 15 Marigolds ..... Well ... I will also have other flowers too ... Hehee ..... Thanks for sharing this good information ..... Sweet Peas and Dame's Rocket will be my add on plants this year ..... Hugs
Very informative Mrs Pitt 💗
I grow lots of chocolate mint and it’s subtle, but yes it does have a hint of chocolate to it 😊.
I also grow a lemon scented geranium and WOW! It’s exactly like lemon scented cleaning products, but in a good way… if that makes sense 😜. I bring a plant indoors each winter to take cuttings in the spring. They root super easy.
Love your channel and all the beautiful flowers you grow. I always admire the gorgeous flower picture hanging behind you during your video's - is it something we can purchase for ourselves? I absolutely love it!! Looking forward to another season following all your beautiful flowers (and appreciate the hard work you put into it all)♥
I have not been able to find it. I bought it close to 10 years ago at a furniture store hanging on the wall there.
It looks like a Thomas Kincaid painting.
Yes! Freesias! So fruity and perfumey. In a great way.
I love carnations! I buy them every couple of weeks and they last forever, but I change water every few days. They smell like cloves to me. I also love roses and lavender. Also I really like hyssop and Nepita. They have a minty smell. Orange blossoms are amazing too!
Pop-pop being flabbergasted at the sight of the Bells of Ireland is the most wholesome, purest, most adorable moment in history. I remember when I started working as a florist, I had the same reaction the first time I saw them, they look so alien, and that bright green is so distinctive and rare, they look like something out of a cartoon or a surreal painting. Love them.
Edit: For me, one of the stinkiest flowers in the whole world is Gypsophilla, jeez weez, they smell baaaaaaddddd. I usually joke that if that's what baby's breath smells like I'll make sure to stay the heck away from any and all babies. They smell like... imagine running a marathon, wiping your sweaty armpits and feet with moldy newspaper and then leaving it to dry and then smelling it the next day. Disgusting. And people get married holding bunches and bunches of that revolting thing, unbelievable.