I actually give this rose a 5 for fragrance as I only grow highly fragrant roses in Maryland. It is the most fragrant rose I have grown over the past 30 years. I lowered the score to 4 to be fair as it is not a classic formed rose and the heads are so heavy they will frequently droop. From that view it would score a 3. Unlike many of the highly fragrant roses (Bellaroma , etc) you will start to sense the Auguste Renoir perfume from 10 ft away. In hot summer sun, it increases in intensity. Mine are now going on 18 years and have suffered through various disease ills (botrytis - spotted it late) . Overall it is disease resistant and with own-roots it has come back. I recently had to take a drastic action and transplant one of them as new trees were shading it. Even with the harsh transplant it came back this past year and bloomed well.