'Scentsation' Honeysuckle Lonicera periclymenum

I live in zone 5A. This is my second year for this honeysuckle. It was full of bloom this year and I had a battle with aphids in my garden as our weather seemed conducive to insect pests this year. We had a milder winter than some previous years. My honeysuckle was fragrant this year but wasn't the first year. Many perennial vines take 2-3 years to get established, at least in my zone. Also some fragrant plants release their fragrance at certain times of the day like morning and evening - it seems to depend somewhat on which type of pollinator the plant wants to attract. My Carol Mackie Daphne is most fragrant in the morning and evening. Can't remember now what time of day the honeysuckle was fragrant and it was a nice fragrance, not a chemical smell like another reviewer said. I bought this plant because of it's smaller size and yellow blossom.

I planted four of these along my front fence. I was concerned they wouldn’t smell like anything after reading other comments here but luckily they smell wonderful. Not chemically at all like another review mentions (?). It’s mid-June and they’re all covered with blooms and growing up the fence quite well. Hummingbirds and bees love them and so do I. The scent spreads a few feet into the street and the garden.

Bought mine back in April 2020 and had a beautiful smell, now that it bloomed this year no smell at all. Very sad, really wanted it to add fragrance to my backyard.

I bought three Scentsation Honeysuckle along with three Happy Jack Clematis online from Proven Winners in spring 2020 and planted them in pairs in three large, rectangular containers under a pergola on a sunny deck. They have been growing very well, covering already quite a bit of our trellises and netting one year later. This year, so far the honeysuckles have been having quite a few flowers. Although I don't think they deserve the name "Scentsation", they do have a lovely scent, especially in the evenings, but it's not anything like, for example, citrus trees or jasmine. So far they are growing well in our zone 6b and have survived single-digit winter temps in containers without any protective measures. They are definitely much better growers than the clematis so far. Overall, I'm happy with the shrubs and would purchase again from Proven Winners. The only reason I subtracted one star is that "Scentsation" is misleading.

Every year about this time I regret planting this vine. Despite its name, assigned perhaps due to cynical marketing research, this honeysuckle has no scent. I’d pull it out if I could get hold of haliana but Hall’s honeysuckle is invasive and never sold anymore. That honeysuckle of my childhood was highly scented, and I continue to seek a vine to compare with it. So far to no avail.