Thanks all for your nice comments.
I noticed only a faint sweet pleasant scent (some people say like vanilla) in the morning. To my human nose it was not a prominent feature, that I kept in mind. I had exspected a more intense fragrance. But I am sure that the bees can smell the special perfume of these flowers much better, as they come a long way and go crazy to reach the osmophores behind behind the horn on the mesochil. There is a good pic of a cut lip G.Gerlach on the orchidspecies.com website.
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