Certified will be introducing this rose as De Colores in US 2026.

I don’t know what possessed me to buy this rose, when I normally steer well clear of varieties remotely approaching that colour... In fact, I do
know: a neighbour has a badly neglected 20 cm stick of a rose in a pot, coming from his mother’s garden, usually with less than 5 leaflets at a time, blighted by blackspot; it produced two flowers in living memory since it came in his care (for want of a better word) 6 years ago. One of these flowers, from 3 or 4 years ago, was so gloriously, mouth-wateringly scented, that I’ve been on a quest to figure out what variety it might be, with the intention of growing it myself. I thought it might be Tropicana — alas, it’s not. The plant of Tropicana I acquired has blooms that are extremely pleasing in shape, dubiously tasteful in colour (so far, so good), but their scent has proved to be only mildly sweet. It looks like my nose is one of those that can’t detect the supposedly strong, fruity fragrance of Tropicana… A little research on the Internet shows that reports are very divided on the fragrance of this variety (I think HMF should reflect this fact in its description, by the way). Harry Weathercroft put it best perhaps when he stated something to the effect that he still didn’t know whether or not Tropicana had a scent!