It's a sunny day on May 2022, after an overnight downpour, and I have three vintage dark, velvety reds -- Etoile de Hollande (bush), Mme Louis Laperriere and Jola -- blooming next to one another simultaneously. The scent is sharpest on Etoile de Hollande -- more lemony than in the other two, and Mme Louis Laperriere has a dash more lemon than Jola. Jola's scent is rounder and riper than either of the others and generally stronger than Mme Louis Laperriere. (Having said that, at times my Etoile de Hollande can produce a deep, dark, sweet tea scent in which no lemon is detectable; and Mme Louis Laperriere in its best moments can be peach-like).
