Hi Martin, I went out to smell my plants which have been blooming for a couple of months now and if you have to get really close to the flower to smell anything at all and at that distance it is only slightly unpleasant, certainly now like the note on the wiki. On this list in the past we have talked about how people's ability to smell fragrance is variable and also how there can be differences in fragrance between different forms of the same species. Probably it would be worth adding a note to the wiki. After reading your post I smelled my Eucomis bicolor and I had to get close to it too, but it too wasn't very unpleasant, though stronger than the Tigridia. But then I think my Ferraria crispa has a pleasant vanilla like fragrance so may not be a good judge. On another note I succumbed to NARGS seeds of Tigridia pavonia 'Sunset in Oz' since I think it is so beautiful even though I've had poor experience keeping T. pavonia going where I live and even though I know if I keep it alive long enough to bloom the flowers may not look the same. But I remembered once before getting it to bloom the first year from seed so was gambling. Today I see a spike forming. Sowed 2/22/15, up 4/15/15. I can't wait to see what the flowers will look like. Ellen Hornig's photo on the wiki of one of the offspring looks so different from the parent. We finally got some rain, first significant rain since May and we didn't get much then. But everything is still very dry. Mary Sue Mary Sue Ittner California's North Coast Wet mild winters with occasional frost Dry mild summers