I once stayed at a hotel next to one of the largest rose gardens in the southern hemisphere, with hundreds of varietals. I walked through smelling every unique

I once stayed at a hotel next to one of the largest rose gardens in the southern hemisphere, with hundreds of varietals. I walked through smelling every unique type of rose flower and I was surprised to learn that the vast majority do not smell like “roses”! A rough estimate was that half smell bad or not at all, most of the rest smell like lemons, and a few percent only have the prototypical rose smell.