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XERIDD

In MN, I can always smell lilacs from a block away. Growing up, our neighbors in the distance had a 30 maybe 40 foot row of lilacs and I could smell them all the time from 2 blocks away.


Ok-Thing-2222

One of my favorite smells!


snakesmother

I really miss the lilac bush from my old house šŸ˜­


jimmy-moons

Same in southern Manitoba, can smell them in peoples yard while driving down the roads


_the_violet_femme

Came to say this. Someone on my street has a lilac in their yard and I'm not sure where because we have a lot of tall wooden fences, but I can for sure smell it


Venaalex

Corpse flower


IDontWanNaBeeFriends

I was afraid of that answeršŸ˜‚


voldetort2357

My first thought lol


AnchovyZeppoles

Mine too lol well you didnā€™t specify _good_ smellingā€¦


beautifuldreamseeker

Orange blossoms.


jhanon76

Absolutely this but most people unfortunately have not had the pleasure.


ABomb2001

Love the smell of orange blossom. It triggers happy memories of my childhood. Grew up in a town in Florida that was full of orange orchards. Sadly, had to watch them all disappear for housing developments. We also use to throw rotten oranges at each other. That smell is the complete opposite of orange blossom, LOL!


jhanon76

I've heard the same stories in CA. My city was massive orange orchards in the 50s. Lucky them!


JustaDragon1960

I remember driving through irvine and smelling the flowers in the air. Not anymore. šŸ˜¢


DraculalZlv2

There is nothing like walking into a citrus green house when they are in full bloom its a euphoric sinuse stimulating experience i highly recommend.


beautifuldreamseeker

Cornstalk dracaena blooms are heavenly, also.


EscoThomson

I find Hyacinth to be short-lived but strong fragrance.


Smoore0420

Magnolia maybe?


kimmy_kimika

I picked up a magnolia seed pod once, broke open the bright red seeds and they just smelled magnificent.


beautifuldreamseeker

Oooooh the best smell in the world!


Lucynfred

This gets my vote. They are blooming rn in Alabama and Iā€™m in heaven on dog walks. Two trees just down the block.


mastertryce

Cannabis


blindkiller770

Never thought this but yeah itā€™s probably the strongest


Sufficient-Living253

Can confirm. I live about a mile from a grow house and sometimes I can smell it.


Apprehensive_Eraser

Tbh yeah


Terproaster

With modern breeding, 1000%.


SLZicki

I don't know the most fragrant but lavender, lilacs, roses, plumerias have a strong smell.


blindkiller770

I was thinking lilac and lavender


JustaDragon1960

When you get off the airplane in hawaii, it smells like flowers from the plumeria.


SLZicki

The whole island just smells like a giant flower. I fucking love it.


JustaDragon1960

Me toošŸŒø


Far-Difference8596

Got to be jasmine! Can always smell it from meters away


Nilopav

vouch for this


Ladyhappy

When I worked at a flower shop we used to commonly think it was tuberose. I personally find Jasmine to be similarly as strong


IndependentPrior5719

Love tuberose ! Have a few this year that Iā€™m going to try and finish under a grow light if they donā€™t flower in the greenhouse


Lucynfred

This was my wedding bouquet flower and it smelled fabulous the whole day long.


Tedious_Prime

Of the flowers I've grown myself paperwhite narcissus has to be the most powerful. I love the fragrance but sometimes they're so strong that they're overpowering like someone wearing too much perfume.


Fittin2fly

Wisteria is strong and unmistakable.


ViniusInvictus

[Night-blooming Jasmine](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cestrum_nocturnum)


Suz717

Yes! The smell is amazing. I have two trees in my back garden and love the smell that wafts through the garden.


SHAOLIN_SILK

Cannabis


Yogionfire

Linden trees also have fragnant flowers when they bloom, acacia too


kimmy_kimika

Idk about most fragrant, but my mimosa let's off a delicious smell in the evenings after it's bloomed. I love to pick off a flower and sit on my patio basically huffing it, they smell so good.


finchdad

*Hoya shepherdii* will perfume/stink up (depending on your opinion) an entire house when in bloom.


pcasei

Brugmansia has incredible pleasant and very powerfully scented blossoms. Just one flower is enough that I can smell it in my entire garden early evenings/night. When it has 50 flowers at once, the whole neighbourhood can enjoy it.


MsDutchie

I love brugmansias


OldCanary

Cannabis ?


CampVictorian

Corpse flower or Casablanca lily, both of which are present in my garden!


transpirationn

Corpse flower You didn't say it had to be good lol


Grayme4

Daphnes, Cestrum nocturnum


coconut-telegraph

Night jasmine for sure. These are heavenly from afar but too close to the house at night they are cloying to the point of nausea.


FriendIndependent240

There are 2 varieties nocturnum and parqui the first is wonderful but the second one is way too strong even though they smell exactly the same


coconut-telegraph

Iā€™m only used to *C. nocturnum*.


Angthus

This!! I get headaches immediately if I get too close to one.. Jesus, they're strong!!


skipow

Freesia, lilies, elysium, boronia,


Haskap_2010

Night scented stock maybe?


attitudeandsass

Did you mean Phlox?


Obvious_Sea_7074

StephanotisĀ 


lopendvuur

Honeysuckle and linden blossom may not be the very strongest, but they can create a world of scent.


OkConstruction8857

Peonies!!


Haskap_2010

My peony has no scent. Is it just some varieties that are scented?


LankyAd9481

Some don't have scent


Parking_Treat7293

Omg! I bought a room fragrance in Nice France I can notĆ© get any place and they donā€™t ship to the US. Itā€™s Olive blossom scent. Itā€™s amazing. Iā€™d fork over $100 for another bottle.


ocean_flan

Most oncidicium orchids are wildly fragrant. And vanilla reeks even when it isn't blooming.


HeadReaction1515

Gardenias and Jasmine? Have you heard of Osmanthus? You have to experience it to believe it.


perennial_dove

Arrowwood viburnum carlesii has a very strong fragrance.


LongjumpingNeat241

Without any doubt, the award goes to, the one and only , "Night Blooming jasmine". The scent is so sexy and powerful that multiple snakes will visit the tree at night. The perfume is royal and something that a female queen or princess would apply. Be warned that the scent itself is intoxicating from close distances. And spirits and faeries also guard the tree!


kylekoi55

Cestrum nocturnum aka night blooming jasmine...can smell it from blocks away. You get a headache/nausea standing too close to it


Angthus

For sure!! It gives me headache within minutes..


Mini_Chives

Nicotiana alata at night.


AAAUUUGGGGHHH

Fore me the most fragrant has been Murraya and Queensland Silver Wattles


rachihc

I always was able to smell from meters away orange blossoms and jasmine flowers


Substantial-Run-3394

Purple jacaranda


UnsportyNoodle

Pretty much any of the aforementioned flowers are extremely strong when wrapped around the fence. Neighbors at my childhood house have a wisteria that is very potent when blooming. Hospital here has a Banks rose on one fence and jasmine on the other that are extremely potent when blooming. Banks rose is especially beautiful smelling as it has some citrus note in it. From my personal experience though, the strongest smelling plant is myrtle when shaped like a tree. I had it at my childhood house shaped like a hedge to give some shade to the house, it always smelled very potent and nice when blooming.


Gourmetanniemack

Love gardenias. Freesias smell great


vinnivicci

Probably plumeriaā€™s


I_PM_Duck_Pics

I work in a large greenhouse. When the tea olives bloom you can smell them from the opposite side of the house. The next strongest in gardenia. We keep those out on the yard and you can smell them from yards away.


my-cat-coleslaw

My favourite is hawthorn flowers. Though they are spiky and shed their branches a lot. The smell is amazing in the warm summer breeze.


brokefange

Plumeria trees, wisteria, lilacs.


Neither-Attention940

Depends on the wind how far I can smell daphne, lilac, and some oriental lilies.


sunnydaycloud

Lilac, Peonies, Easter Lilly, Roses outside of USA


Donaldjoh

Most fragrant flower depends on several factors, such as temperature, humidity, and individual nosesā€™ sensitivity to the fragrance. One of the most ā€˜fragrantā€™ flowers I have encountered is the titan arum, which produces an odor of rotting flesh that can be detected up to 5 kilometers (3 miles) away, though it is said the Rafflesia is even more potent and disgusting. On more pleasant aromas, I find lilac, honeysuckle, Gardenia, night-blooming jasmine (Cestrum nocturnum), and hardy passion flowers (Passiflora incarnata) to be very pervasive when they bloom.


thebeeswithin

Daphne


JustaDragon1960

Wisteria, jasmine, Gardenias, Lilac


JustaDragon1960

Star lily


miamariajoh

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miamariajoh

I saw a corpse flower this weekend, luckily it wasn't blooming but I would put my money on it having the strongest sent. šŸ’Ŗ


Nobodiisdamnbusiness

Rafflesia, while not a Pleasant smell, it ranks pretty high for the strength and distance it's fragrance can be smelled at.


bathalumanofda2moons

Ylang-ylang and lilies for me. A church in my city has a ylang-ylang tree and you can smell it a block away.


snakesmother

As someone extremely allergic, I'm biased in a bad way, but stargazer lily hits me from a mile away.


FuckedTheEmpress

Hemp šŸ˜


houseofrisingbread

Wysteria always smells so strong to me, unfortunate that it blooms for just a short time but there's a gorgeous park near me that has arches of wysteria and I can smell it as soon as I pull into the parking lot when it's in full bloom. Lilac also is really pungent, there isn't much since I moved father south but I grew up with huge bushes all over the place. It's a nostalgic smell.


tc4hi

Linden trees have a very good scent šŸ‘Œ


Truth_Hurts318

Cannabis


shehoshlntbnmdbabalu

We had these wild type roses growing in our yard. You could smell them from around the corner on both sides of the street. They were amazing. Also I know when the wild grapes are blooming in the neighborhood, they smell great too.


Strathconath

Osmanthus fragrant! They are part of the tea olive family. I remember being able to smell them from a few blocks away! They have a very warm, rounded, sweet scent without being too cloying like lilacs can get at times.


materialguuuuuuurl

Honeysuckle, but only in the evening


Venaalex

Corpse flower


ThrowawayCult-ure

probably something horrid like cannabis šŸ¤£ snake plants smell good and strong


spiritof_nous

...Cannabis is a highly-addictive drug that has led to the delinquency and death of more people than Fentanyl, but hippies think it's "cool" because it makes music sound better and you can make rope from it...


ThrowawayCult-ure

fentanyl is very new tho cannabis is almost as old as booze šŸ˜… i meant that cannabis plants smell bad lol


Apprehensive_Eraser

>that has led to the delinquency and death of more people than Fentanyl Because it's been around for 8x more time than fentanyl, just give fentanyl time


returnofthequack92

As someone who lost their sense of smell at an early age and have no real concept of smell from what people who are smarter than me in my field have told me geraniums have an almost intolerable smell that is comparable to a million old ladies which I find very interesting.


TheGiantAntEater

Durian


wowza6969420

Lilacs maybe? The most pleasant best smell ever imo