If one were designing a rose garden for the gods, "Gloire" would take its rightful place. Gertrude Jekyll called it "The most free-flowering of all climbing Roses, and for general usefulness has no equal." Henry Arthur Bright wrote: "But no rose, taking all the good qualities of a rose together, its hardiness, free blooming, beauty, and scent, will surpass the Gloire de Dijon, though the golden cups of Marshal Niel may be richer in colour, and the fragrance of La France recalls, as no other rose does, the luscious fragrance of Oriental otto of roses".
Gloire de Dijon (bred by Jacotot in 1853) is what may aptly be described as an "advanced noisette". It is a relatively free flowering scented climber. Its colour is basically buff - a sophisticated, unshowy but rich buff that is difficult to categorize and may vary, perhaps due to the soil or pH on which it is grown. Some growers pronounce in apricot, some yellow-buff. Some see tints of gold, others of pink. No-one complains when its lovely quartered blooms appear.
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