Breeding stock only

Bred by Jacopo Giammario (Italy, 2022).

Shrub.  

White.  Strong, appleblossom, magnolia, rose, sweet, vanilla fragrance.  Medium, very double, cupped-to-flat, rosette bloom form.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.  

Armed with thorns / prickles, average prickles.  Medium, matte, dark green foliage.  

Disease susceptibility: disease resistant, blackspot resistant, mildew resistant.  

It standed out in a batch of OP Desdemona seedlings as very different from its siblings. It had significantly increased vigor since it was a tiny seedling; it did have a juvenile bloom, but much later than the rest of the batch (it had 20+ leaves).
The bloom quality is different as well; all the seedlings in the batch were semi-single to semi-double and were quite messy-looking (most were discarded at the end of the season). It is possible that C02-2 is a self as most of its sibling likely are, but the differences are starting to pile up, and the rest of the batch was quite uniform. This leads me to suspect that it may actually be the result of the bees' work; a good putative father could well be Thomas à Becket that was growing right next to Desdemona, and shares the nodding blooms and flower form with C02-2. The only other rose growing near Desdemona (they were on a terrace about 25m from the rose garden, so anything is actually possible) is Munstead Wood, but I see no resemblance, and Munstead Wood's seedlings tend to have a distinctive thorn pattern that this seedling lacks.

I'm not sure if it has any kind of commercial value, but the blooms are among the best I have ever witnessed in my seedlings and the scent is amazing. It seems to be growing to be a semi-climber (luckily, given its nodding blooms). Its first spring flush was very profuse and the blooms lasted about one week on the plant.