Plants bring life to the indoors and out for many reasons. But perhaps the best plants to own are fragrant plants. If you grow plants that smell heavenly inside your home, you may as well throw out the bottles of air freshener! Make your home and/or your yard smell amazing with one of these 10 fragrant plants that smell heavenly.
10 Fragrant Plants That Smell Heavenly
1. Scented Geraniums
Headlining our list of fragrant plants is the scented geranium. Scented geraniums come in a variety of fragrances and are easy to grow in small planters on a windowsill.
2. Jasmine
This plant flourishes in spots of bright light and plenty of humidity. Because of their vine-like attributes, they also grow really well outdoors on a trellis or pergola.
3. Sweet Bay
Sweet Bay grows best in plenty of sunlight. It prefers humidity, so grow it on a pebble tray if you live in a drier climate. This fragrant plant gives off an herbal scent. The leaves are used to flavor soups and stews.
4. Lavender
Most everyone recognizes Lavender as a sweet-scented herb with lovely purple flowers. It is easy to grow indoors as long as it has light and warmth. Water lavender only when very dry and do not fertilize. Lavender is definitely one of the first to come to mind when I think of plants that smell heavenly!
5. Rosemary
Rosemary is another sweet-scented herb. It prefers well-drained soil and needs adequate air circulation to thrive indoors. Just plan on placing your rosemary plant next to a window.
6. Pansy Orchids
This plant is uniquely gorgeous, easy to grow, and beautifully scented! Have you ever seen anything like it?
7. Gardenia
Gardenias smell incredible, but they are not for the faint of heart! They require careful tending. Gardenias grow best in areas with temperate winters. They’ll also grow indoors over the winter.
8. Lilac Bushes
When Lilacs bloom in the spring, they produce the most heavenly smell that will welcome you as soon as you step outside! Plant in the spring or fall in a spot with plenty of afternoon sun and well-drained soil.
9. Honeysuckle
This is a fragrant plant with beautiful flowers. Like Jasmine, Honeysuckle is a vine perfect for growing on a trellis or a pergola in your backyard.
10. Mint
With its refreshing, clean smell, mint is a great choice for your garden or indoors. It is easy to grow indoors and can be used to make homemade tea.
Cute post but rather vague. The Jasmine in the picture is nt actually a true Jasmine at all but a Trachelospermum jasminoides. Very lovely scent, but nt a jasmine. Jasmines themselves vary much in scent, as do Honeysuckles. Some of them are not scented AT ALL!
Another amazing thing is some honeysuckles are edible and the nectar delicious. We cant forget lemongrass. Lemongrass and rosemary fragrance is a great calming smell together. I use this combo to help me get to sleep.
Wrong! This is the common Philadelphia, very fragrant indeed!!
I would add chamomile, which smells like green apples when brushed against or walked on, and heliotrope, which smells like vanilla.
Love Heliatrope!
I would add Lily of the Valley
Agree with you but it’s extremely poisonous. Even the water you put it in can kill a children if they drink it. Be careful!!!
Lily of the Valley is extremely poisonous?
Yes, remember breaking bad!
Lol
Olive bush! Oh my, every time I smell the blooms, I think about how much more amazing the smells of Heaven will be!!!
Sweet Almond Bush!
Bee Balm. I love just brushing by my balm and it gives off this amazing scent.
Question. I planted Bee Balm this spring, 2016. It never bloomed. Any idea why?
I love that mint smells so good continualy grows and basically cares for itself
What is the white delicate flower shown at the beginning of the post?
The white flower at the beginning is black cohosh (cimicifuga racemosa). The black refers to the root. The flowers of black cohosh smell decidedly unplesant, it’s a lovely and useful plant but never chosen for its pleasant smell!
I was at an herbalist convention a few years ago and a famous herbalist had us all bury our noses in the black cohosh flower and inhale deeply, as she exclaimed how it smelled like a… ahem… male exudation. Needless to say there were a lot of people recoiling from the plant in horror and coughing and sputtering. Sorry to go there but thought you should know!
One of my favorite plants is Daphne Odora. An early spring bloomer, it’s very fragrant,
citrusy blossoms are always a welcome to the end of winter.