Fragrant Iris

Fragrant Irises

Fragrance is often an overlooked quality of the bearded irises. This can be difficult to understand because the perfumes produced from some of these fragrant flowers vary from light and sweet to heavily scented, dusky and even a "chocolate" essence. If you specifically want fragrant iris flowers, you will be pleased with the following selection from our fragrant irises.

The fragrant Iris often have a sweet scent that makes them doubly enjoyable as a cut flower.

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  • Manor Born - fragrant tall bearded Iris
    Manor Born$8.00
    (Virginia Messick, 1994) TB, 38 inches (97 cm), M Scalloped bright lavender-rose B-light lavender; fragrant. Winterscape X Nordic Prince.
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  • Marge M - fragrant tall bearded Iris
    Marge M$8.25$7.50
    (George Sutton, 1991) TB, 34 inches (86 cm), M Ruffled violet blue, paler around beard; beards violet blue, tipped white; slight sweet fragrance.
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  • Mariposa Autumn - fragrant reblooming tall bearded Iris
    Mariposa Autumn$10.50$9.50
    (R.Tasco 1999) TB 32 inches (81 cm), EM & RE S-rosy violet,white center,lemon yellow edges F-white,rosy violet band B-white-violet-gold;fragrant. Reliable rebloom for us in zone 8. Reported to rebloom in zones 7, 8, and 9. HM 2001 AM 2003
  • Martile Rowland - fragrant tall bearded Iris
    Martile Rowland$9.50
    (Howard Bushnell, 2000) TB, 36-38 inches (91-97 cm), E Ruffled and laced lemon yellow, F. fading to white around uniform fire engine red orange beard; slight spicy fragrance. HM 2004.
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  • Mary Frances - fragrant tall bearded Iris
    Mary Frances$13.00
    (L. Gaulter, 1973) TB, 38 inches (97 cm), M Ruffled light blue-orchid with white center on F.; white beard tipped yellow, orange throat. HM 1974, AM 1976, Dykes 1979. Fragrant Iris.
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  • Mauvelous - fragrant tall bearded Iris
    Mauvelous$8.25
    (Monty Byers, 1988) TB, SA, 36 inches (91 cm), M S. very smooth mauve pink; F. pearly white, mauve pink hafts, narrow suffused mauve pink edge; blue beard heavily tipped bright orange-red; short blue horns; heavily ruffled; slight sweet fragrance.
  • Melancholy Man - fragrant tall bearded Iris
    Melancholy Man$8.00
    (R.Nelson 1994) TB 35 inches (89 cm), M Silvery violet-blue,deeper thumbprints on F B-self tipped orange;sweet fragrance
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  • Mellow Magic - fragrant tall bearded Iris
    Mellow Magic$8.50
    (P.Black 1992) TB, 36 inches (91 cm), L S-pink diffused to bluish mauve edge F-white around cocoa pink B;fragrant
  • Men In Black - fragrant tall bearded Iris
    Men In Black$10.50
    (Larry Lauer, 1998) TB, 34 inches (86 cm), ML Ruffled blackish purple, F. with deep lavender central flush; beards deep purple, hairs tipped mustard, changing to mustard central section, bright yellow in throat; slight sweet fragrance. HM 2000.
  • Mescal - fragrant tall bearded Iris
    Mescal$10.50
    (Jim & Vicki Craig, 1996) TB, 40 inches (102 cm), L S. light lemon yellow, center paler; style arms bright yellow; F. warm white, 1/4 inches lemon yellow rim, medium yellow plicata veins and dotting at haft; beards yellow; ruffled, lightly laced; slight sweet fragrance.
  • Midnight fragrantrance - fragrant reblooming tall bearded Iris
    Midnight Fragrance$8.00
    (S. Stevens,1990) TB, 29 inches (74 cm), M Heavily ruffled violet black; self beard; pronounced sweet fragrance. Dusky Dancer X Navy Strut. HM 1993
  • Mind Reader - fragrant tall bearded Iris
    Mind Reader$8.00
    (Keith Keppel, 1994) TB, 36 inches (91 cm), E S-mignon over pale ground,paler edge F-deeper in center B-white-lemon;pronounced sweet fragrance. HM 1996, AM 1998
  • Minneola - fragrant reblooming Border bearded Iris
    Minneola$49.50
    (George Sutton, 2005) BB, 26 inches (66 cm), EM & RE S. cadmium orange; style arms tangerine orange; F. blend of tangerine orange and apricot, dark orange veins; beards fire red, very wide; ruffled, light lace; slight spicy fragrance. Eggnog X Orange Popsicle. HM 2007
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  • Miss Piggy - fragrant tall bearded Iris
    Miss Piggy$13.00
    (T. Burseen, 1997) TB, 35 inches (89 cm), ML S-dark plum purple F-blackish burgundy,white haft striations B-gold; ruffled, sweet fragrance
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  • Misty Twilight - fragrant reblooming tall bearded Iris
    Misty Twilight$8.00
    (Monty Byers, 1988) TB, 38 inches (97 cm), M-L & RE Heavily ruffled pale violet-blue, misty green white center on F.; medium blue beard tipped yellow in throat; slight sweet fragrance.

    Reliable rebloom for us in zone 8.

    Reported to rebloom in zones 3 to 9.

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  • Mo-Town Sister - fragrant tall bearded Iris
    Mo-Town Sister$9.50
    (G.Nicholson 1999) TB, 36-38 inches (91-97 cm), M S. light grape juice; style arms same, golden inner glow; F. velvety deep tokay grape, thin white rim, white area near beard peppered deep grape; beards orange, deepening in throat, white at end and on base of hairs; heavily ruffled; slight musky fragrance. Flights of Fancy X unknown.
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  • Monday-Monday - fragrant tall bearded Iris
    Monday-Monday$8.00
    (Roger Nelson, 1992),TB, 29 inches (74 cm), EML Smooth bright deep lavender blue, F. with lighter area near beard; beards deep lavender blue, some gold orange deep in throat; ruffled, pleated; pronounced sweet fragrance.
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  • Mulberry Echo - fragrant reblooming tall bearded Iris
    Mulberry Echo$19.25
    (W.Maryott 1997) TB 37 inches (94 cm), EM & RE Cerise maroon self B-orange;slight spicy fragrance
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  • My Forte - fragrant tall bearded Iris
    My Forte$8.50
    (Richard Ernst, 2000) TB, 37 inches (94 cm), ML S. violet purple, midrib infused white; style arms violet purple; F. white, 1/4-3/8 inches violet purple band; beards tangerine orange; slight sweet fragrance.
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  • My Little Wagon - fragrant tall bearded Iris
    My Little Wagon$24.00$21.00

    (Margie Valenzuela, 2012) TB, This may not look much like a wagon, but it's color is getting close to a red wagon. When the sun hits it just right........it can look quite red. This is a healthy, great growing plant with rebloom genes. Nice branching too. Sdlg. ROR-05-J, TB. 33-34" Mid-season. Stands. are deep red with orange-brown tint; lower midribs are red-orange to orange. Style arms shades of red-orange, orange, and yellow. Falls are deep red with velvety maroon-red shading and white markings near beard. Beard is yellow tipped mustard.

    Parentage: Rustler x (Vanity x Chief Redskin)

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Looking for the most fragrant Iris. Try using the search function for the word "pronounced" which should return all the varieties that have a pronounced fragrance.

Some of the tall bearded Iries are also Reblooming Iris. You will be able to identify them when you see the "RE" in the description. RE is for Reblooming (Irises). Some of the reblooming irises are also very fragrant Irises