Available from - High Country Roses
www.highcountryroses.com

Have people experienced a lot of die back on this rose?

Just opened flowers have a strong clove-fragrance.
When the flowers are opened longer, the petals change in colour and the pollen dry out or get "nicked" by the (Bumble-)bees, the clove-scent disappears and just a faint wild-rose scent remains or fragrance is (almost) completely absent.

Interesting that after years of quoting 'Poinsettia' x 'Alika' as the parentage, the 2007 reference (and to date) reverses this.