Fragrant Iris

Fragrant Irises

Fragrance is often an overlooked quality of the bearded irises. This can be difficult to understand because the perfumes produced from some of these fragrant flowers vary from light and sweet to heavily scented, dusky and even a "chocolate" essence. If you specifically want fragrant iris flowers, you will be pleased with the following selection from our fragrant irises.

The fragrant Iris often have a sweet scent that makes them doubly enjoyable as a cut flower.

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  • Trey Stout - fragrant SDB Standard Dwarf Bearded
    Trey Stout
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    (Hugh Stout, 2014) SDB, 12" (30 cm), EM S. pale lavender, light veining; style arms pale lavender; F. white, light lavender plicata band thin at tip and wider towards hafts, prominent bronze-copper-gold markings extend out _?? of falls from hafts; beards bright gold, hairs based white, tips bright gold; slight sweet fragrance. Happy Jack X Canadian Kisses.
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  • Victoria Circle - fragrant tall bearded Iris
    Victoria Circle
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    (Frederick Kerr, 1994) TB, 34 inches (86 cm), M S. white; F. white, 1/2 inches sapphire blue edge, ivory near beard; beards white, tipped gold; slight sweet fragrance.
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  • Victorian Charmer - fragrant Border bearded Iris
    Victorian Charmer
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    (D.Pinegar 1995) BB 26 inches (66 cm), EML S. white with light pink midrib and veining; style arms white; F. creamy white overlaid light pink, veined medium pink; beards orange; lightly ruffled; slight sweet fragrance. Vanity X Marmalade Skies.
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  • Victorian Fancy - fragrant tall bearded Iris
    Victorian Fancy
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    "(Denise Stewart, 2014) TB, 33-35 (84.71 cm), ML S. and style arms pale mauve, apple-buff rim, lightly ruffled; F. same, white-mauve spot around beard; beards orange in throat, deep yellow in middle, pale yellow at end; pronounced spicy fragrance. Vienna Waltz X Strut Your Stuff."
  • Violet Music - fragrant reblooming tall bearded Iris
    Violet Music
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    (Clarence Mahan, 1991) TB, 40 inches (102 cm), VE-EM & RE Ruffled uniform medium violet, F. with white blaze; beards violet, tipped yellow; pronounced spicy fragrance. Reliable rebloom for us in zone 8. Reported to rebloom in zones 4 to 9.
  • Waiting for George - fragrant tall bearded Iris
    Waiting for George
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    "(Barry Blyth, 1998) TB, 36"" (92 cm), M S-white,rosy pink flush F-cream,lighter center,rosy pink plicata edge B-burnt tangerine;fragrant. "
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  • Wake Water - fragrant reblooming tall bearded Iris
    Wake Water
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    (Tom Burseen, 1996) TB, 35 inches (89 cm), EM S. white, blue influence at midrib; style arms white, washed blue; F. light blue washed violet blue, lighter edge, darker centerline; beards mustard; ruffled; spicy fragrance.
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  • Waves of Joy - fragrant tall bearded Iris
    Waves of Joy
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    "(Tasco 2015) TB, 39"", ML. Naples yellow standards with a couple of slight violet veins on the midrib; violet falls with a naples yellow rim, light bronze shoulders and veins on the shoulders and near upper beard. Beards are white based with the hairs tipped golden Indian yellow, there are a few very minor violet tips at the very end. Show stalks carry 3 branches and a spur and average 7-to-9 buds. Moderately ruffled flowers with a strong sweet fragrance and light purple based foliage."
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  • Will and Adelle - fragrant tall bearded Iris
    Will and Adelle
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    (Larry Lauer, 2014) TB, 34 inches (86 cm), M-L S. hyacinth-blue, ages lighter; style arms hyacinth-blue; F. white base, aster-violet lines from cinnamon shoulders becoming more pronounced, solid at rim, slight white outer rim; beards burnt orange; pronounced sweet fragrance; ruffled.
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  • Wings of Peace - fragrant tall bearded Iris
    Wings of Peace
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    "(George Sutton, 1997) TB SA, 38 inches (97 cm), EM Ruffled white self; beards white, hairs tipped yellow in throat, 1 inches wide white spoon; slight sweet fragrance. HM 2002."
  • Wishful Thinking - fragrant tall bearded Iris
    Wishful Thinking
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    (Keith Keppel, 1996) TB, 40-44 inches (107-112 cm), M S-blue paler edge F-paler silvery blue,chartreuse yellow B-yellow-lavender white;fragrant. HM 1998, AM 2000.
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  • Yaquina Blue - fragrant tall bearded Iris
    Yaquina Blue
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    (Schreiners '92)TB, 37 inches (94 cm), M Bubble ruffled ocean blue. Fragrant Iris. Large well formed flowers. Sweet fragrance. Awards - HM 1994, AM 1996, Wister 1998 Dykes Medal 2001.
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  • Yosemite Star - fragrant reblooming tall bearded Iris
    Yosemite Star
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    "(George Sutton, 2004) TB, 36 inches (91 cm), ML & RE S. violet blue, blended wistaria blue ; style arms violet blue; F. violet blue blended wistaria blue, white blaze surrounding beard; beards white at end, yellow, to yellow orange in throat; ruffled; slight sweet fragrance"
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Looking for the most fragrant Iris. Try using the search function for the word "pronounced" which should return all the varieties that have a pronounced fragrance.

Some of the tall bearded Iries are also Reblooming Iris. You will be able to identify them when you see the "RE" in the description. RE is for Reblooming (Irises). Some of the reblooming irises are also very fragrant Irises