It has fragrant, yellowish white flowers and black berries.
A similar species, Cleyera japonica, has fragrant, creamy-white blooms followed by dark red, puffy berries.
Winter-blooming mahonias, or grape hollies, are catching on: Charity has fragrant yellow flowers.
It has fragrant white flowers in autumn and winter, and provides nectar for early emerging insects.
Prairie Princess, introduced in 1972, has fragrant, vivid dark pink blooms and can grow to eight feet tall; and Prairie Star, introduced in 1975, is a fragrant white.
It is a poeticus daffodil, and like all members of this division, it has fragrant white flowers with red-rimmed yellow cups.
Or pick a late bloomer that barrels through the heat, like the chaste tree (Vitex agnus-castus) with its spires of purple flowers, or summersweet (Clethra alnifolia), which has fragrant white clusters.
The sole extant member of Haplostachys (a genus of 5 species total), H. haplostachya, has fragrant white flowers typical of insect-pollination and is found in the xerophytic shrubland of Hawai'i.
And if you don't have a fragrant winter hazel, Corylopsis glabrescens produces soft yellow flowers in early spring; treat yourself to one near the house.
The showiest crabapples, hybrids derived from M. floribunda, are among the choicest small hardy decorative trees; many have large fragrant blossoms and bear colourful fruit that persists well into winter.
