The best fragrant Orchids you can grow in your home!

Sedirea japonica smells amazing and also Phalaenopsis AL Sun Hannover "Red" ! 😍

Yes, sharry baby is 100% milk chocolate ❤ I love it!

My Cattleya hybrid (mostly aclandiae) smells between spicy and sweet honey. I got a eria bractescens too which smells like sweet tea but the flowers are very small and unimpressive. Oncidium space coco smells like vanilla chocolate. I also got Dendrobium crumenatum that smells like soap. lastly, many Dendrobium phalaenopsis hybrids have some scents too although not strong.

not easy to find..

I love my Coelia Bella - smells like marzipan or cherries. Also Cymbidium ‘Golden Elf’ - wonderful mini cymbidium with a citrusy fragrance.

I have favourites in different scent categories:

floral:
Zygo Louisendorf Rhein Moonlight (rosehips + lilac)
Miltonia Spectabilis (var. Moreliana) (lilac)

fruity:
Phal. Sweet Memory Liodoro (sweet and tropical)
Phal. Long Pride Leah (smth sweet + citrus) - seeing these everywhere now, prolific bloomer too
Catt. Chantilly Lace Twinkle (tangerine + a hint of marigolds)

spicy:
Phal. Tying Shin Fly Eagle (star anise + smth sweet + floral undertones)
Catt. Princess Clementine x Blc Suncoast Sunspots (this one is hard to describe, under intense light it smells like spiced syrup or licorice, under less light it's more floral and fruity)

Any good recommendations for growing orchids outside in Florida? I really wanna grow oncidium types, but because of my heat I’m restricted to Trichocentrum & true Oncdium. How would I go about growing miltonias and other intergenerics?

I’m in z9b so I can get away with growing outside, as long as I remember to bring them in when temps are sustained & below 8°c / 45°f. I don’t really notice cold damage until it hits the 30°s.

My long term goal is to try to get my Sharry Baby and my Cycnodes Wine Delight to bloom at the same time so my house smells like chocolate cherries! So far they have gone from 3 to 2 months apart, and are slowly getting closer. May take a few more bloomings....

Loved the video, but the most fragrant orchid for me (hands down!) is Iwanagara Apple Blossom. I have a few at home and they fill every corner of the house with an intoxicating scent when they bloom each Spring.

Phalaenopsis Guadalupe Pineda and zygopetalum noid ("sharp", peppery fragrance; sadly i lost it)

While I soo enjoyed this video I just have to say that your butterfly ring is sooo eye catching and I LOVE it..

My Green Bird smells wonderful.

Hi Danny, a word on your delightfully fragrant Miltoniopsis Herr Alexander, please 🙏

I understand that the flowers are spent since a while, but has it started a new growth by now so that we can enjoy the next bloom in half a year or so?

Hopefully it is not on ist "death bed" as you described how the plant looked at the shop...

I have both oncidiums mentioned, and i love them! I go into my sunroom several times a day just to smell them 😅

I found a zygopetulum (Jumping Jack) and it has an incense-like fragrance I loved. I cannot wait for my cats and brassavola to bloom so I can smell their sweet fragrance!

One of my favorite scent on orchid hybrids is phalaenopsis mok choi yew.

Are there orchids that are easy to grow in the home or in the yard that generate lots of nectar, so as to be attractive to hummingbirds?

To me, Maxillaria tenuifolia smells exactly like white choclate. Am I the only one ?

Thanks for sharing! I think the Dendrobium anosmums are fragrant as well! We here in Hawaii call them Honohono.

Have a bunch of polychilos phals, and my best fragrance is Phal. Love Potion. 👃👃👃❤ Soooooo nice!

Favorite is the Vanda Millitonia, the scent reminds me of Hawaii. Unfortunately it was my first orchid, didn't know you existed yet so managed to kill it with kindness. Haven't been able to replace it yet, so sad. Thank you for all your guidance and fun video's. 😊😊😊

I enjoyed your video. Thank you! My favrote, and I'm still trying to get better at their care because I love the fragrance so much is Dendrobium Anosmum.

My Phalaenopsis Yaphon Perfume "coffee red" smells like paradise ~

Thanks!

Dendrobium anosmum, Vanda tricolor, Dendrobium Banana Royal. Many spatulatas have sweet scent.

My absolute favourite smell is the Oncidium Sharry Baby! I can’t get enough of it. I have 5 of them which bloom in different times although with the same care and in the same room. ❤

Hi Danny, I currently have 2 miltoniposis that have a lovely scent. my phal sogo grape, cattleya Burano beauty and my Belina cross, lovely scents!!

Lc Haw Yuan 'Angel' = expensive perfume
Bc Kosh Wallis 'Paradise'= wisteria and honey
Encyclia Judy Russ x Randy Jamaican = cocoa and coffee
Dendrobium spectibile = honey/jasmine

I was gifted an Oncidium Aka Baby 'Raspberry Chocolate' (Jimbo x Sharry Baby) 3 years ago and it is one of my most prolific bloomers and the chocolate raspberry scent fills a room easily. One of my favorite scented orchids for sure.

oh my gosh, is this the same tenuifolia that you were trying to save a while back? it looks so luscious now! mine has become very dessicated and I don't know why 😅. it's my second one as well 😅😅

I have the Maxillaria tenuifolia and the rufenses ( I think I spelled that right lol) and neither of them has bloomed for me and I am not sure why? I have them underneath the barrina lights. I have the variegated tenuifolia as well and nothing. I have had them for a couple of years now. They are growing like crazy though so I don't get it.

I absolutely love the smell of the Maxillaria tenuifolia and Sharry baby, they really do fill the living room when I wake up in the morning ❤ Also loving the delicate smell of my Neofinetia falcata hybrids and my Phalaenopsis Scention. I also have a white and purple no ID Oncidium hybrid (tag just listing Cambria) which smells amazingly sweet and fruity. I do ❤ this topic 😊

I know you are still a bit struggling to properly care for your Catasetum type orchids in this climate but the Cycnoches chlorochilon smells delicious! A bit of jasmine, quite sweet, and also a bit spicy like pine (depending on the age if the flower). Although I haven‘t had the more popular intergeneric Cycnodes in bloom so I can‘t tell if their scent is really distinct or actually quite similar

Where did you find your glass stand for your orchids

I love the smell of my brassavola nodosa. It blooms for me at Christmas time and fills the room with it's scent 🥰

Krull-Smith's phalaenopsis Florida Rainbow (imagine a Sweet Memory Liodoro with a hint of ginger).

Thanks!

After seeing this, I got curious and sniffed my new dendrobium Aridang Green (self-ID’d using your suggestions!) —it has a wonderful scent! I hadn’t detected it before. I’m so glad I found it at the Fresh Market—the only non-phal of the bunch and scented into the bargain.

My favourite is chocolate fragrant orchid ❤

I’ve only found one Bellina in Mexico and it was like $50 USD 🫠

I found a Cambria orchid in the store, it smells like jasmine. I will probably buy ~8eur. Very similar to Cattleya.

Greeat job on all your work. Encyclia orchids are to die for. They smell like fresh baking vanilla cookies!

Do you do consultations? I would love to pick your brain for 30 min. about what to grow. I moved to a new country, it seems to offer a lot of possibilities I didn't have before (Vandas, bulbophyllums especially) but I'm not sure. If you offer consulting services I'd love to talk. Better than wasting money on plants that will die!

Nell Hammer is my fav fragrance cattleya. yellow color. it has sweet and citrucy fragrance.

Neoliberal falcatas smell wonderful. They remind me of the aroma from lilac shrub blossoms.

keep up the good work:)

After reviewing 40K orchids I put together a "Fragrant Orchid" data base.
If you like I can send you a copy. It is an Excel spread sheet with 3500+ orchids listed.

Cattleya intermedia Aranbeem bloomed for me this winter and it smelled great!

I think Stanhopeas are unreal even if they only last a few days. I wait 360 days every year for 5 days of heaven at Christmas time here in Australia

How to grow a community of fragrant Cattleyas in a raised planter box, in cool coastal climate San Francisco Bay Area?