I was looking over amaryllis bulbs at a garden shop, and the label of one double red and white one said it was "lightly fragrant". I had never had a scented one before, and was about to buy it when the clerk said they had specially ordered only lightly or unscented ones because the others were too strongly scented for indoors. She had personal experience of this, a long time ago. I said I had found only paperwhite narcissus and tuberoses to be too heavily scented indoors, thinking maybe she had mis-identified the offending flowers. I know there is a white-flowered scented Hippeastrum species, but what about the hybrid Amaryllis that are sold for winter bloom in the house? I've grown them every year, and have never had a scented one, but have never been able to afford to grow more than a couple of types per year. Are some of them strongly-enough scented that they would be offensive? -- Diane Whitehead Victoria, British Columbia, Canada maritime zone 8 cool mediterranean climate (dry summer, rainy winter - 68 cm annually) sandy soil