Best and Worst smelling fruit tree flowers?

[FlyingFoxFruits]

I forgot to mention...macadamia!

intensely sweet smelling!

[huertasurbanas]

Oh, very late, but I would say

best:
citrus
sete capotes (similar to roses)
eugenia repanda (I like it more than e. uniflora and e. pyriformis)

worst:
pear (dog food)

[mandarn]

Surprised. Nobody seemed to mention Mango flowers smell good. Papaya is fragrant too.

[From the sea]

coffee and Guava are my fave

[simon_grow]

Dragonfruit flowers smell like paradise!
Simon

[gunnar429]

i like guava, but as fragrant as citrus is, it gives me a headache.  i went into a greenhouse next to adam's and almost passed out---it was instant migraine

[Fiddler]

Best? Citrus, hands down!
   Worst? Thai Giant Jujube, hands down!
   When flowering, my jujube smells exactly what I imagine a sock hamper in an NBA locker room would smell like after all those overpaid heroes had showered and gone home.
      Be that as it may, the wasps (and I don't mean White, Anglo-Saxon Protestants) seem to love it, judging from the wasps of every size, color, and shape imaginable that swarm that tree all day when it's in bloom.
     Honeybees stay away, but wasps love it. Too bad they don't pollinate worth a damn.

[bradflorida]

I enjoy the smell of my papaya flowers: reminds me of floral smell combined with lime.

Jujube flowers have an odd unappealing smell.

[stuartdaly88]

Awesome thread! Flower Smell is such an underrated aspect of fruit trees.
Star ruby grapefruit is an absolutely incredible smell and permeates the whole greenhouse  Naartjie is pretty nice too. I don't really like the smell of mango flowers. If you count rosehips as a fruit(I love rosehip syrup) everyone knows they can smell amazing.
Though not the same kind of sweet bloom smell I love the strong scented leaves like tree tomato, white sapote and some Annonas have a strong smell I find pleasant too

[fruitlovers]

i like guava, but as fragrant as citrus is, it gives me a headache.  i went into a greenhouse next to adam's and almost passed out---it was instant migraine

Was it really the flower fragrance that gave you the headache, or could it be pesticides they just sprayed on those plants?

[gunnar429]

could be.  same thing happens when i drive up 27 near okeechobee in winter/spring.  But, again, could be the pesticides.

[Mike T]

Big rotting flesh flowers like Rafflesia, Corypha palm, titan lily and even the south African star flower are smelly. Some melaluecas are terrible and a few rainforest trees around here have putrid flowers. Red stinkhorn, yellow stinkhorn and bridal veil stinkhorn fungi come up in my garden sometimes and they are really offensive.

Some of the citrus relatives with masses of white flowers are very fragrant.