True Bloom Roses® True Perfume™ Bare Root Rose Bush

About True Bloom Roses® True Perfume™ Bare Root Rose Bush

Rosa True Perfume™ — PP35,467
🧬 Breeder: Ping Lim / True Bloom Roses®
🌹 Rose Type: Hybrid Tea Shrub
🌸 A pink-and-white rose created for one very important reason: to smell absolutely wonderful.

With a name like True Perfume™, this rose has a lot to live up to.

It does.

Large, 4-inch flowers open in a beautiful pink blend, with rich pink petals revealing a contrasting white reverse. The flowers are wonderfully full, carrying 50+ ruffled petals and the elegant form of a traditional garden rose.

But the real reason to grow True Perfume™ becomes obvious when you lean in.

That fragrance.

True Perfume™ carries a rich, enchanting classic rose perfume—the kind of unmistakably rosy fragrance that reminds you exactly why scent is such an important part of the experience of growing roses.

And underneath all that perfume is a surprisingly practical plant: compact, healthy, glossy-leaved, repeat flowering, self-cleaning, and only about three feet tall and wide.

💐 Plant & Flower Traits

🌹 Rose Type: Hybrid Tea Shrub
🎨 Color: Pink blend with a distinctive white petal reverse
🌸 Bloom Form: Large, full and beautifully ruffled
🌼 Bloom Size: Approximately 4 inches
🌼 Petal Count: 50+ petals
🌺 Fragrance: Strong, classic rose fragrance
🔁 Flowering Habit: Prolific repeat bloomer
🌿 Foliage: Healthy, glossy green foliage
🧹 Self-Cleaning: Yes
✂️ Cut Flower: Excellent — large flowers and exceptional fragrance make this one especially tempting for the vase

🏡 Growth & Garden Habits

🌱 Growth Habit: Compact, upright and bushy
↕️ Height: Approximately 3 feet
↔️ Width: Approximately 3 feet
☀️ Light Requirements: Full sun — at least 6 hours daily
❄️ Hardiness: USDA Zones 5–9
🪴 Container Friendly: Yes
🌿 Garden Use: Fragrance gardens, cutting gardens, rose beds, mixed borders, patio containers, specimen plantings, and planting near entrances or walkways

👃 This One Is All About the Perfume

There are roses that happen to have fragrance.

And then there are roses where fragrance is part of the entire reason for growing them.

True Perfume™ belongs in the second group.

Its flowers carry that recognizable classic rose perfume—rich, romantic, and distinctly rosy.

This is the kind of rose to plant somewhere people naturally get close to it.

Beside the front walk.

Near the patio.

Along a garden path.

Outside a bedroom window.

Or right beside your favorite garden chair.

Because True Perfume™ isn't meant to be admired only from across the yard.

You're supposed to stick your nose in it.

💕 Two Colors in Every Flower

Turn one of the flowers over and True Perfume™ has another surprise.

The petals have a contrasting white reverse.

That gives the blooms much more dimension than a solid pink rose.

As those 50+ petals curl, ruffle, and move in the breeze, flashes of white appear between the pink surfaces of the petals.

It's subtle from a distance.

Up close, it's beautiful.

And with so many petals packed into a four-inch flower, there's plenty of opportunity for that two-tone effect to show.

🧬 A Fragrant Family Tree

True Perfume™ was bred by renowned rose hybridizer Ping Lim.

Its parentage includes:

‘Julia Child’ × an unnamed fragrant seedling

That's a particularly interesting pedigree for a rose developed around fragrance.

True Perfume™ carries forward the True Bloom Roses® philosophy of combining the characteristics rose lovers traditionally crave—large flowers, lots of petals, beautiful form, color, and fragrance—with the healthier growth expected from a modern garden rose.

🏆 An Award-Winning Perfume

True Perfume™ didn't earn attention based on its name alone.

It was entered into the American Rose Center International Rose Trials, where roses are evaluated over an extended period for characteristics including plant quality, foliage, vigor, flowering, bloom quality, color, and overall garden impression.

True Perfume™ received the:

2021 American Rose Center Committee Award for Best Shrub Rose in Bush Form

The trial recognized exactly what makes this rose so appealing:

Beautiful pink flowers.

Healthy foliage.

A lovely garden plant.

And, naturally—

that perfume.

💛 Why Grace Rose Farm Loves It

A rose called True Perfume™ better smell amazing.

Thankfully, this one absolutely understood the assignment.

We love the big 4-inch pink flowers, the flashes of white from the petal reverses, and the incredibly romantic look created by 50+ ruffled petals.

But fragrance is the reason we'd make room for it.

There is something wonderfully nostalgic about a rose that actually smells the way you imagine a rose should smell.

And True Perfume™ gives you that experience without requiring an enormous plant.

At roughly 3 feet by 3 feet, it's compact enough for a patio container or smaller garden but substantial enough to become a beautiful flowering shrub in the landscape.

Big flower.

Big fragrance.

Manageable plant.

Sometimes the name really does say it all.

🌿 Growing & Care Recommendations

Planting Site: Choose a location receiving at least 6 hours of direct sunlight daily with fertile, well-drained soil.

Spacing: Allow approximately 3 feet between plants to accommodate the mature habit and encourage airflow.

Watering: Water deeply after planting and maintain consistent moisture while your bare-root rose develops its root system.

Pruning: Prune in early spring to remove dead, damaged, weak, or crossing growth and encourage vigorous new flowering stems.

Container Growing: Its naturally compact 3' × 3' habit makes True Perfume™ an excellent candidate for a substantial patio container with good drainage.

Fragrance Placement: Don't hide this rose at the back of the garden. Plant it beside a walkway, entrance, patio, seating area, or cutting garden where you can regularly enjoy its perfume.

Cutting: Bring this one inside. Those large, fragrant flowers are exactly the kind of roses you'll want sitting on the kitchen table or beside the bed.