My Oncidium hastabilum flowered shortly after it arrived here. I could smell it more than 6ft away in the mornings, smells like cake icing. Delicious. The Oncidium leucochilum, which I had thought would be more fragrant, turned out to be disappointing (it was faintly sour candy).
So far a number of Oncidiums have made it up to my favorite scents list, including ornithorhynchum and Sharry Baby.
Besides that, the Encyclia cordigera (white/pink mix), I've heard it smells like tea roses. It might. To me, it smells like a matcha milk tea, with a slight nuttiness from the roasting of tea leaves, which is probably also the same note causing some to identify it as chocolate. I was also able to smell that across the room when it was in bright light. That was quite complex and intoxicating.
Another recent standout would be Epidendrum nocturnum, which smells exactly like Tiger Balm to me -- if anyone ever did scraping with a chiropractor, or has Asian parents. Unfortunately, it's kind of inconsistent. On some nights, I could smell it 6ft away. Others, I'd have to lean in.
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