Do Wisteria Flowers Smell. Growing wisteria in pots and containers is seldom successful as the plants are so greedy when it comes to food and water. Wisteria is not the most famous of flowers in perfumery yet has the headiness of tuberose the sultriness of jasmine and the spice of freesia.
Its true this cultivar of wisteria smells like cat pee. Their fragrance ranges from faint to strong to almost overpowering. Now you know the depths of my flower issues we can proceed.
All Wisterias are scented.
Flies like flowers that smell like rotting garbage or poop such as the corpse flower. I was waiting on a customer one day at a nursery I worked for and one was near in full bloom. Members of the Wisteria genus bloom in pendulous displays of sweetly scented purple white and pink flowers in spring. All kinds of smells y flowers need pollinators to survive.