What is this climber? Greenish white flowers (like a single Hydrangea) heavily scented

[cheekychopsmum]

Last summer in scotland (June time) I walked past a walled garden and smelt the most beautiful fragrance. A climber was hanging over the wall and it had profuse small greenish white flowers. The flowers looked like an individual Hydrangea flower. I've looked up hydrangea and they 're not scented. This definatly had a strong perfume, I could smell it all the way down the road.

Please can anyone help?

Thanks Pannacotta, you've really gone out of your way, sorry to be so fustrating!

What about orange blossom?

WHen you say a climbing hydrangea, do you mean the flowers are "mop head" style, ie like this one?
www.bellewood-gardens.com/Shrub_Hydrangea%20Annabelle.jpg

What leaf shape are we talking here? And roughly how big?

Sounds a bit like it might have been a scented clematis like Miss Christine or just possibly one of those new fangled jasmines with very big flowers

According to this article the climbing hydrangea does have a strong scent
www.independent.co.uk/life-style/house-and-home/gardening/gardens-scents--sensibility-850879.html
Here is a pic
www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/plants/plant_finder/plant_pages/397.shtml

No, not a mop head, but an large individual flower from a mophead

See my last post....

Thanks Pannacotta, that must be it.

Like it said in the article "Nobody ever tells you about this hydrangea's smell but it is incredibly strong at the moment with all the scent of course coming from the tiny, nondescript flowers in the centre of each head..."

I'm off to order hydrangea, H. petiolaris.

Climbinb hydrangea is a very nice plant - it is self supporting, and it will happily climb up (and flower on) a north facing wall - when it gets bigger you might want to selectively cut back the width so that you only take out half each year - otherwise you have no flowers. The 'flowers' on the outside of the flower head do get quite large - but its clear that they are part of a typical hydrangea 'head' - lots of the big 'flowers' around the edge of the smaller round bits in the centre of the head.

There are lots of different types of Philadelphus - so the flower you are describing sounds appropriate - but if you already have some mock oranges you will know what they smell like so its unlikely to be that.

Ooops! sorry Panna, I didn't see you'd already thought of that one. I love Mock Orange.