Orchids with a strong scent

[MattSwift]

Here is a pretty good list. Fragrant Orchids

[tuccu]

Thanks Matt for your very usefull list!

[tuccu]

Thanks,Matt for your usefull list!

[Rosiefuture]

Originally Posted by s.kallima

Nobody mentioned the Coelogyne species yet. I really love their scent (jasmine, vanilla scents) and they can become quit big plants with dozens of flowers...

Because I live in Oz all my orchids, we exception of my phalaenopsis, live outside. When some of them bloom I bring them inside for a while so I can enjoy them close up. Last year my Coelogyne flacida 'apricot' flowered for the first time and I brought it into my kitchen. The blooms are on pendulous strings and are such tiny beautiful little things. Well over the next couple of days several people ask me if the dogs had been peeing on the carpet! LOL Yes Coelogyne flacida smells like animal urine! LOL Two little strings of flowers stunk my whole house out! Needless to say it now stays outside!

Marion

[Tropicgirl]

Originally Posted by Rosiefuture

Because I live in Oz all my orchids, we exception of my phalaenopsis, live outside. When some of them bloom I bring them inside for a while so I can enjoy them close up. Last year my Coelogyne flacida 'apricot' flowered for the first time and I brought it into my kitchen. The blooms are on pendulous strings and are such tiny beautiful little things. Well over the next couple of days several people ask me if the dogs had been peeing on the carpet! LOL Yes Coelogyne flacida smells like animal urine! LOL Two little strings of flowers stunk my whole house out! Needless to say it now stays outside!

Marion

For that same reason, I won't plant juniper in my yard. It smells like cat urine to me.

[tucker85]

The most fragrant orchids in my collection are;
Blc. Fritz Nickolaus 'Spring Dance'
Blc. Mem. Anna Balmores 'Convex'
Blc. Chinese Beauty 'Pheonix'
Lc. Mem. Robert Strait 'Island Delights'
Lc. Angel Love 'Pinky'
C. Jenmanii
Blc. George King 'Serendipity'

[tuccu]

Among my strong fragant chids I have:
the best Blc. Hawaiian Galaxy
c Chocolate Drops
Blc.Momilamy Raybon
"The Gipsy" , and some phaleanopsis w/ very strong fragance unfortunately no name.
Less fragant Phaleanopsis violacea "Bellina".

[nenella]

Nice list Mat Thanks!

[ashleylobo]

One should start to share sweet baby fragrance.
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[orchidsamore]

If you desire fragrant orchids you should find them in bloom and smell them directly.

The list given is too vague and will result in your buying plants that are a disappointment.

The list included Brassia, of which I raise hundreds and have never had one with a scent I could detect. Admittedly my sense of smell is not great, but others may be the same. Nobile Dendrobium are listed but I again raise hundreds and would not sell them as a fragrant orchid.

A good example of fragrant orchids is the most famous Onc. Sharry Baby, the chocolate orchid. It normally it has a very strong Hershey bar chocolate scent. I have 100 in bloom and the fragrance is almost missing. You have to stick your face in the plant to smell it. Normally you would be hit with scent when you walk into the shadehouse. These are large plants that bloom twice a year and when they bloom again in the winter the same plants will have a very strong scent. The heat of the summer is reducing the scent.

Orchids put out scent to attract insets to pollinate themselves. If the weather is not right for the insects to be on the prowl (like damp rainy days, summer heat, winter cold, almost anything for at least one orchid) the orchid does not waste its perfume.

It is also not uncommon for an orchid to have no scent one year and then be very fragrant the next.

Young orchids blooming for the first or second time often have no scent on a plant that is famously fragrant.

Back to my original suggestion to find them in bloom and smell them. Then do not be disappointed the next year if it skips a year from having its environment changed.