Andi - Persian Yellow Antique Foetida STINKS. Like, gross type stink, like almost as bad as a skunk stink. BUT!! You have to shove your nose right up into the rose in order to smell it; you don't smell it just by walking by it. I know, I was looking at getting one to go with my Austrian Copper, which is the same rose, just a different color (from what I know).