Northern catalpas stink real pretty. So do certain viburnums.
I grew mine from a seed - it took 15 years until it finally bloomed (this year).
Lilac, and we have a mock orange. Smells awesome.
A Texas Mountain Laurel from a seed? You’re the most patient person I know! The seeds (toxic if eaten) were prized for jewelry by Native Americans. I had 4 trees at my old place but none now. Will be planting some over winter near the patio so we can enjoy the intoxicating grape Kool_Aid smell in the spring. They are beautiful trees.
I used to love to collect the seeds from our magnolia tree. I thought that they smelled interesting, and the pods with the seeds emerging were quite attractive. I also used to peel the furry flower coverings off the buds, much to the distress of my mother.
I always wanted to make necklaces out of the mimosa seeds, but could never get proper holes in the seeds. Now that I have a pin vise, maybe I’ll try again.
Yes, I did a lot of artsy craftsy stuff with natural materials when I was a kid. I used to peel the outer covering from honeysuckle vines, and shape the vines while they were still fresh and damp into various things.
When I lived in Maryland for a couple of years, my yard had black locust trees in it. They are trashy (drop a lot of branches) but their blossoms smell like jasmine.
Magnolia trees are hard to beat, IMO.
In the winter time, though, spruce will do.
Wet plane tree leaves.
I love the scent of jack pines.
When out working a rally in Wisconsin, I came across the best fragrance yet, but it took me awhile to figure out what it was. Below me was a huge mess of white clover but on the cliff above me were several wild (native) rose bushes. The combined scent was intoxicating.
I love working or mowing around my pines and junipers - such a lovely pine smell.
I hate box (Buxus). They smell like…well, like old semen, only more bitter. And it’s not even the flowers, so it’s not limited in time frame. It’s the leaves so they smell like that all spring and summer. Ick.
Eucalypts of all kinds, but especially the Lemon Scented Gum.
I’ve always wondered what that tree was. There was this tree I used to ride past on my bike at night that smelled like semen. The cum tree. Nasty.
Oh, I haven’t smelled sandalwood fragrance in ages! I used to buy sandalwood incense, but then my lungs couldn’t handle smoke any more, even smoke that I liked. But I do love the scent of sandalwood. Maybe I’ll get some candles or something. Sandalwood smells of summer vacation. I wonder if this tree would grow in Texas?
Let me vote for the “orange jasmine” (which is related to citrus and in a different superorder from jasmine). Its other names include Murraya paniculata, Dok Kaew, Orange Jessamine, Chinese box, mock orange, Mock lime, Satinwood, Lakeview Jasmine.
It’s very fragrant. My smell sense is declining but I can still smell orange jasmine from a distance.
Love magnolia, locust.
Hate Chinese Chestnut, planted around here after the American Chestnut disappeared. Fly-pollinated with a sour rotting flesh scent that you can smell from a block away.
Jeffrey pines smell of butterscotch and summer vacation. It’s one of the best smells, ever.
That’s two votes, now, for this mysterious butterscotch scented pine. Must. Find. I’ll just ignore the fact that it shares a name with my ex…
(I’ll throw in Mr. Horseshoe’s because it’s unique: Mexican plum. When in bloom, they smell like corn tortillas. Really!)
Not really a tree, but they’re outside, they’re bushy and they smell pretty in the spring: Honeysuckle.
They grow wild around southeast Pa. and we just love 'em.