Scented shrubs with a long season on interest

[Wildwood6]

The Choisya by my back door is smelling GLORIOUS at the moment- I just wish the flowers and the scent hung around a bit longer! What are your favourite scented shrubs with a longer season of interest?

Shrubby honeysuckle! I like Purpusii Winter Beauty (flowers Dec-Feb) and Syringantha (flowers Apr-Jun).

Coronilla! It's amazing, I don't know why it's not better known.

Yellow tiny sweet pea like flowers, with a jasmine/sweet pea scent, pretty much all year round. Yes, really!

Dwarf lilac Bush, just flowering now.

I was going to suggest a Choisya because the leaves have a good scent, to it's not just the flowers.

Gorse? ("When the gorse is out of blossom, then kissing's out of fashion ")

Sweetbriar - scent glands on the leaves give out an apple-y scent especially after rain. Rosemary - just love the scent of the leaves, the pale blue flowers are a bonus.

Is it possible to keep sweetbriar relatively contained? I am planting a mixed hedge to grow up to about 2m, and would like to add sweetbriar to the mix, but I don’t want the hedge to be hugely thick as my garden is only narrow... I do like the sound of apple scented foliage though!

Oooh following. I like honeysuckle for scent but doesn't last so long. Have just planted some Philadelphus too.

Brilliant, thank you so much for these; so many brilliant suggestions!

Viburnum, it does not last though.

It doesn't flower and doesn't have a fragrance as such, but I love Artemisia Abrotanum. It's a great colour with interesting foliage to set off other plants and I just have to run my hands through it to release the scent.

Repeat flowering roses?

@Catabogus

Is it possible to keep sweetbriar relatively contained? I am planting a mixed hedge to grow up to about 2m, and would like to add sweetbriar to the mix, but I don’t want the hedge to be hugely thick as my garden is only narrow... I do like the sound of apple scented foliage though!

You can just prune it to stay within the confines of the hedge. You won’t get as many flowers, but you will get some

Viburnum lasts a couple of months in the winter, with a gorgeous vanilla scent. And old fashioned honeysuckle flowers for at least two months in summer. Roses, if you deadhead them, will also carry on until December. I have used mine for Christmas table decorations in milder winters.