The best fragrant Orchids you can grow in your home!

[@markcurranjr7366]

My first orchid was a Vanda Amnesiana that a friend got for me. He worked for an orchid supplier and he made me wait a few months to get it. I kept asking him about getting me an orchid and he said that he was going to get me something special. It sure was. It had the most beautiful perfumed scent that permeated my entire apartment for an entire month.

[@collinread2017]

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.

[@polinapechenkina2453]

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)

[@sammisoccer7]

The Chantilly Lace Twinkle is on my wish list!

[@sjscafe]

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

[@PetraEmmy]

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

[@rocker469692]

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. ❤

[@LeTangoNoir]

Are they diff varieties of SB or just divisions? I want to collect them all as well, just got my first one! The choco scent is def my motivation...

[@shellb3301]

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

[@trysarahtopps]

I've ordered quite a few fragrant phals lately, fragrance is my top requirement! I just had an I-Hsin Venus 'sweet fragrant' bloom first time yesterday, it smells great and is so pretty. But I also have violacea and bellina hybrids, a couple peloric ones Joy Fairy Tale and Vio Vio Cat Face, a modesta, and a Golden Pixie that I found at the hardware store! I can't wait until they all bloom. Also, I have a zygo hybrid just about to bloom as well. And a few days ago, I found the Tying Shin Fly Eagle to buy. Very excited about that too.

[@EFA512]

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

[@user-nd9te3xr5w]

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

[@JesseFSanchez]

Vanda Colmarie is my favorite! 💜 Smells like sweet potpourri. Yum 🤤

[@vishalkumar-we6vy]

Thanks!

[@shabema1]

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

[@wandashaw3551]

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!!

[@user-zz4vg3pr6g]

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.

[@masakitsukashita5888]

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

[@marceljurak8915]

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

[@SANDRA-ni3wi]

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 😊

[@kentrinaowens5694]

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

[@cadenceleighton6168]

I got the phal. Ballina 'blue' for my birthday, and I want to say she's about 2-3 years off of blooming she is quite small but I can't wait to see her blooms she's focusing of root growth at the moment she paused on leaf growth

[@Peterrdee]

I got mine and the flower dried up but it’s growing I guess

[@Tarpinouche]

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

[@lizzyp1414]

Hi Dani, I think you've mentioned before that you don't use additives like seaweed extract with your orchids, but I've heard that using seaweed extract can produce a stronger flower fragrance! Do you know if this is true? Maybe a good idea for a future Myth or Truth video?

[@jhndr0nia]

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

[@emidowdarrow]

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.

[@lindac1173]

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. 😊😊😊

[@deepattison9329]

I had a similar experience but I was told that it was a difficult orchid.

[@lindac1173]

@@deepattison9329 after listening to MOC it's more my lack of experience. I'm looking forward to trying again.

[@monica11760]

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.

[@towmater1231]

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

[@eerrbb6241]

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

[@LukeSWErrthing]

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!

[@jesseward9723]

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

[@syarifahhanum3530]

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

[@marilindqvist6071]

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

[@Henry871026]

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.

[@muscletone08]

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

[@introvertyetfunny543]

My favourite is chocolate fragrant orchid ❤

[@Demon_Crowley666]

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

[@StasysFPV]

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

[@tarantulasandmore7827]

keep up the good work:)

[@daniels8297]

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

[@deemaxwell4172]

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....

[@friendsmakingmusic1751]

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.

[@aileen1062]

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 😅😅

[@L-ep1zz]

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

[@karensexton88]

My Green Bird smells wonderful.

[@iljaseklervl]

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...

[@tikigeorgejones3817]

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

[@ArthurRChan]

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?

[@heathersgoinnuts]

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.

[@indaykar40]

Where did you find your glass stand for your orchids

[@mateusquasetuga]

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!

[@YouDontGetToSeeMyEmail]

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.

[@orchidquest]

#1: humidifiers.

[@YouDontGetToSeeMyEmail]

@@orchidquest humidity isn’t the issue, heat is. It’s regularly 55%-80% humidity where I’m located on any given day. It’s roughly the same indoors give or take 10%.

[@shirleytaylor9267]

I’m in zone 9b too and I have had success growing Sharry Baby, most of my cattleyas and one phalaenopsis outdoors. They are under some azaleas which are under live oak trees so receive filtered sun in the morning and a bit in late afternoons. Some will bloom multiple times a year while others are annual blooming only. I let Florida rain showers do the watering or the sprinkler system dUring dry spells and fertilize them when the azaleas are fertilized. I have had good results and always have to divide plants every year when I repot so I think they are happy. My indoor orchids lead a more pampered life lol.

[@nisadancerrider8673]

Vandas in Florida grows great for my friend in the Keys

[@YouDontGetToSeeMyEmail]

@@shirleytaylor9267 I’ve got a Sharry too! That’s true oncdium so no surprise it’s doing good. All of my orchids stay outside because quite frankly I don’t have the space (and my cats are evil😅). Intergeneric oncidiums just absolutely hate me, I might try Brassias soon since there’s a native one.

[@Dilune32]

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

[@artiek1177]

No, your not. We have what I believe to be a Max. Ten. My wife and I both think it smells like chocolate. I don’t remember what the grower said it was supposed to smell like.

[@patklinger9894]

not easy to find..

[@erelyful]

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

[@sgshanker]

Thanks!

[@MissOrchidGirl]

Thank you! 🧡