Gosh, all of the flowers looked dippy like they're sad or something.

How do they smell like? I heard their scent can be rather variable depending on species/forms/cultivars....

Most don't have a strong smell. Those that do, generally smell of cat urine.

Oh. That’s kind of disappointing. I was under the impression that they generally had sweet smell after reading a book....
Still, the flowers are interesting and beautiful enough by themselves.

No... most of them (especially S. flava and S. oreophlla) have strong cat urine smells. Sometimes so strong that it will actually attract cats!

S. purpurea, S. rosea, S. minor, S. psittacina, S. leucophylla all have no discernible smells and S. rubra has a faint-cherry-like smell.

Some crosses have leaves that do have a faint smell though - like the S x 'Reptilian Rose' (S x Moorei) do have a smell - The creator of the cross claims that in the morning, the lids can smell faintly of roses. To me, it is more of a vanilla-cherry-like smell.

Hmmm.... I think I have misremembered or got confused. I do remember reading a passage that one of the species had cherry soda scented flower.... I guess that was only about S. rubra, but my brain jumbled it up and thought it applied to all species.

Still, very interesting. I wonder what kinds of pollinators would be attracted to cat urine odor.

Solitary bees of the genus Bombus. Normal Apis melliflora are too small to push the petals (which are quite large and hang upside down). They make their way through the tepals and the petals. I guess underneath the cat-stench smells, there must be something appealing.

Another interesting fact is that they put out their flowers before their pitchers - presumably - to avoid eating their pollinators.