You have to smell this one here!” Jana Pirtle calls out. The Scentimental rose has candy cane–striped petals, and its intensely sweet fragrance hangs in the air like a blast of perfume at the mall. Pirtle, the horticulturist who oversees the Tyler Municipal Rose Garden, has a soft spot for such floribundas, whose blooms spray forth from the end of a stem in bunches instead of as individual, perfect flowers. A hybrid tea rose nearby offers a more delicate, fruity scent, like a bowl of raspberries.Smell doesn’t get enough play when we travel, with hilltop views and all stealing attention from the scents. And Texas offers plenty of them to take in, from the aroma of pit-smoked meat in the Hill Country to the singular…The post A Road Trip Through the Sweetest-Smelling Part of Texas appeared first on Texas Monthly.
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