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I wonder why that is? I have two large honeysuckle plants and they only smell at night.
During the day, I can walk up and put my nose right on a flower and not smell any odor. At night the wonderful fragrance of honeysuckle can be smelled on my deck 20 feet away from the plants.
We had Jasmine we planted near patio at last house and they were the same. Now if you got close you could smell them but at night the smell seemed to drift with cooler air. Have to say honeysuckle here smells pretty strong in daylight as most are on fences and grew wild here. Get within 10-15 foot and the smell is strong. Perhaps its the variety just as New Orleans Jasmine were ones we settled for smell.
When I was a small child, my father planted a night blooming jasmine under his bedroom window. At night that beautiful jasmine fragrance drifted into the bedroom.
I've never been able to make that work for me. I can't grow jasmine. I love fragrant roses and I've planted those close to the house but I don't get the fragrance drifting inside.
I've got a lot of purple iris that smell like grape kool-aid. You can smell them all over the yard but the smell doesn't come into the house.
I've got a dwarf lemon tree in a pot inside the house. When that is blooming, it can be smelled inside my plant room. Not much smells better than lemon blossom.
Some flowers are more fragrant at night, definitely. I have noticed our petunias, which are almost fragrance free during the day, smelling lovely when we sit out on our balcony at twilight. Dames rocket, a beautiful wildflower, has a mild scent during the day that turns powerful at night. Night blooming jasmine, yes...what a gorgeous scent. Same for gardenias and evening primrose. I don't recall honeysuckle doing this, but I haven't had any in close proximity since childhood. It's a beautiful fragrance though, isn't it? I did read online that plants with that characteristic are programmed that way for pollination by moths.
Many of the night opening flowers do so as the temperature decreases and the humidity of the evening air increases. This allows certain flower cells to plump up with water and to pop the flower open. The fragrance that escapes from inside of the opening flowers can be intoxicating. Jasmine, some cacti, angel trumpets--ahhh! Supposedly these are the plants that are pollinated via moths, or for desert plants even bats contribute.
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