I noticed a scent on the opened flowers a time ago. Today there were only closed ones, but when I removed the petals of a riper flower, there was a strong Rugosa-like scent with a touch of apricot.
They might be so packed the scent doesn’t come through, only when the flowers open up before they brown.
This year it reached over 2 meters after some ground melioration.

Beautiful flowers! Horrible rust in SF.
Let’s see how it does in a drier location.

I've been growing Moonstar for three years now and she's been wonderful in my z11 climate. Very heat tolerant, and never any powdery mildew. Strong fragrance and almost always in bloom.
The only downside is that the blooms tend to stay on forever and look ugly after a while, but I don't mind deadheading regularly.
Sets hips.