You can smell these everywhere at present. It is a Star Jasmine, or Trachelospermum jasminoides. Its not actually a 'true' jasmine, as this particular plant is part of the milkweed family Apocynaceae, not the olive family Oleaceae (where true jasmines belong). Star Jasmines have a very strongly perfumed flower, you can scent them from a good couple of meters away at least. If the plant is particularly large, the smell can give people headaches although Ive never come across anyone who has suffered this (think my tafe lecturer might have been trying to scare us with that one). I love the plant personally, its quite hardy and very rewarding. The one in this photo is pretty much growing in yellow sand with a little bit of blood and bone and its an absolute mass of white flowers. We use them as groundcovers at work, but they are avid climbers. If you grow one be prepared to have lots of trellis room for it, because if its happy it will get bushy and thick in no time at all.
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