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I'm up in Cumbria this week, checking out the progress of spring here. The flowering currant bush seems to be doing well...
@RickGaehl that's several weeks earlier than here in a wine growing region on the continent!
@tg9541
That's odd. I was a bit surprised, myself, to find them out already.
@RickGaehl They have a distinctive smell that I remember from my youth (my sense of smell has lessened with age).
@wisegreyowl
Just been to check, but I can't detect any significant smell - not like with a blackcurrant bush. It may just be that I'm too old to smell it though. What was nice to find, however, was several small bumblebees, helping themselves to the nectar.
@RickGaehl Perhaps they're not out enough yet? I remember an acrid type of smell. Not unpleasant but not floral either.
@wisegreyowl @RickGaehl its the leaves of the culinary currants that smell strong, not unlike cat pee to be honest. The flowering ones don't seem to have much smell at all
@Beedazzled @wisegreyowl
I did try both crushing the leaves and tearing the wood, but neither produced anything more than a sort of generic 'green' smell.
@RickGaehl @wisegreyowl I have one in the garden and I did a few cuttings in 2023. I have never noticed any smell
@wisegreyowl
I'm up here for about ten days. I'll keep a nose on them. 
@wisegreyowl you're right - the smell is distinctive. @RickGaehl
@RickGaehl Been flowering about a week my home, Victoria, Canada.