We recently wrote an article about the top 5 David Austin Wedding Roses, but besides the David Austin Wedding Rose Collection a selection of 14 amazing scented roses from the house of Meilland can be found in our assortment.
Meilland’s scented roses originate from France and come in many different shapes. We are very proud to have their collection available for florists around the world. Meilland has developed a true luxury rose selection with its Meilland Jardin & Parfum Collection. Roses with exceptional fragrances and beautiful looks.
Meilland remains a 100% family owned company. The sixth generation is already at work.
The House of Meilland has more than 200 employees in France alone and a turnover of € 18 million. Meilland’s research team is dedicated to the creation of rose varieties for cut flowers (fresh flowers) and varieties for garden and landscape. The have a garden roses production company (grafted and cutting) and a mail-order company which sells rosebushes, plants, bulbs and seeds. From catalog and by Internet.
Meilland has 5 trial stations throughout Europe, with more than 600 employees including 30 agronomists and technicians. 14 hectares greenhouses and 240 hectares field.  20,000 m³ cold storage for storage plants. Meilland has a system to test garden rose varieties and cut flowers (fresh flowers) on every continent and taking into account all types of climates. With agents or partners in more than 62 countries.
Meilland has also nurseries in other parts in the world: France, Spain, Netherlands and United States (California).
5. Meilland Jardin & Parfum Rose ”Toulouse Lautrec”
The rose Toulouse Lautrec is a heavily filled garden rose with a strong, sweet perfume. The petals are thin and fragile, always fresh yellow. There are few color differences between the roses.
The spring-yellow buds of the rose Toulouse Lautrec will open to a fully petaled, classic, quartered, romantic centre.
The rose Toulouse Lautrec was named after the French impressionist painter whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 1800s yielded a collection of exciting, elegant and provocative images of the modern and sometimes decadent life of those times. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was painter, printmaker, draughtsman and illustrator.
The flowers are beautiful at all stages: the small but thick flower buds open into hollow beautiful rosettes, each with about 60 to 90 petals.
The rose has a strong, fresh lemon verbena scent.
- Shape : Romantica®
- Color : Spring-yellow
- Petals Count : 90+
- Diameter : 11 cm
- Fragrance : Fresh lemon verbena scent
- Vase Life : 4-6 days
- Breeder : Meilland
- Plant name :Â Meirevolt
4. Meilland Jardin & Parfum Rose ”Rene Goscinny”
The Rose Rene Goscinny is like many of our other scented roses developed by the French rose breeding family Meilland.
The scented rose Rene Goscinny is a deeply filled garden rose with a light apricot perfume. Each rose is a little different in color from one another. Sometimes a little darker peach in the centre, sometimes more to mango orange color. The edges of the outer leaves of the flowers sometimes have an attractive coloring effect with darker shades, almost brownish.
Who was René Goscinny?
René Goscinny was a French comics editor and writer, who is best known internationally for the comic book Astérix, which he created with illustrator Albert Uderzo, and for his work on the comic series Lucky Luke with Morris (considered the series’ golden age) and Iznogoud with Jean Tabary.
The flowers are beautiful in every stade; the flower buds open up in hollow rosettes, each with 80-90 petals.
The Rene Goscinny roses have a wonderful fruity aroma.
- Shape : Classical garden rose
- Color : Mango / peach / orange
- Petal Count : 80+
- Diameter : 13 cm
- Fragrance : Gentle and soft apricot scent
- Vase Life : 5-7 days
- Breeder : Meilland
- Plant name :Â Meifrypon
3. Meilland Jardin & Parfum Rose ”Jeanne Moreau”
An exceptional rose for a great lady of the French cinema: the white rose Jeanne Moreau is one of the newest hot items in wedding flowers. If you are looking for white gorgeously romantic wedding flowers with a wild, fresh from the garden feel, Jeanne Moreau scented garden roses are for you!
The Rose Jeanne Moreau, also known as White Perfumella, is a near white or white blend Hybrid Tea Rose from the Meilland jardin & Parfum Collection.
This glorious ivory-white Jeanne Moreau rose has a great deal of wow factor. It is long stemmed and densely petalled with a sensational fragrance. Everything you are looking for in a scented rose. It has a beautiful fruity fragrance. The rose Jeanne Moreau is a great performer with long vase life.
The layers and layers of the Jeanne Moreau Roses have ruffled ivory white petals and a wonderful fruity lemon rose scent.
The bloom opens into a beautiful rounded rosette that look beautifuls in any bridal bouquet.
The white garden rose Jeanne Moreau can be used alone for traditional hand-tied bouquets and also mix beautifully with other wedding flowers in mixed bouquets, wedding centerpieces or in any other flower arrangement.
- Shape : Hybrid Tea
- Color : White
- Petals Count : 90-100
- Diameter : 12 cm
- Fragrance : Strong, lemon fragrance
- Vase Life : 7 days
- Breeder : Meilland
- Plant name :Â Meidiaphaz
2. Meilland Jardin & Parfum Rose ”Yves Piaget”
The diva of the Piaget family, the Yves Piaget rose, once seen is never forgotten. This gloriously strong scented rose with a hint of sunny citrus has an average of 80 layers of petals, with a bright to light pink color. Like an enormous scoop of strawberry ice cream, it’s hard to resist.
The Yves Piaget Rose is bred in France and introduced in 1985. The large-flowered Yves Piaget Rose is sometimes known as ‘Queen Adelaide.’ This award-winner is known for its sweet scent and large, full-petaled, pink blossoms reminiscent of the old garden roses grown during English Queen Adelaide’s reign in the nineteenth century.
Named for the famous Swiss clock maker who makes the trophy for the best rose in the Geneva rose competition.
Perfectly combines old-fashioned form, strong color and rich fragrance.
- Shape : Romantica®
- Color : Deep Pink-Cerise
- Petals Count : 80
- Diameter : 12 cm
- Fragrance : Strong Citrus scent
- Vase Life : 7 days
- Breeder : Meilland
- Plant name :Â Meivildo
1. Meilland Jardin & Parfum Rose ”Princesse Charlene de Monaco”
The Rose Princess Charlene of Monaco offers superb gradient pastels in delicate, salmon-pink. It is a great rose with surprisingly few petals.
It has a beautiful, sweet and fruity fragrance. The rose Princesse Charlene de Monaco is a remarkable rose and holds well in a fully open form. A great performer with medium-long vase life.
The Rose Princesse Charlene de Monaco is wonderful for flower arrangements, bridal bouquets and blush weddings. Or just as a eye-catching “mono-floral†bouquet of only Princesse Charlene de Monaco roses in a nice vase.
Before the renaming, the rose was known as ‘Haiku Perfumella’ and already awarded with three International Perfume Prices and a Gold Medal at the Geneva International trial of New Roses. Now it is dedicated to the wife of HSH Albert II of Monaco and has taken a worthy place among the roses dedicated to the princely house. The couple discovered this variety at the Monaco rose trial, and at the reopening of the Princess Grace rose garden in june 2014, the rose was dedicated to the Princess.
The garden rose Princesse Charlene de Monaco is magical in the hands of floral designers.
- Shape : ROMANTICA®
- Color : Salmon-Pink-Ochre
- Petals Count : 68-71
- Diameter : 11-14 cm
- Fragrance : gentle, soft, old rose
- Vase Life : 6-8 days
- Breeder : Meilland
- Plant name :Â Meidysouk
Of course we have more Meilland Jardin & Parfum Roses. You can find them all right here. But besides Meilland Roses, we have a very versatile collection of scented roses that will fit any occasion. Which one is your favorite?
If you want these amazing roses in your flower shop, please send an email to [email protected]. We’re happy to help! 🙂
