Tri enjoys flowers too. Perhaps her more sensitive kitty nose picks up a rose smell mine doesn't (these commercial roses are not bred for scent). I do know she enjoys tasting the leaves & have to wave her off, reminding her that she has her kitty grass to nibble.
As aways a bouquet reminds me of our visit to the morning flower market outside Amsterdam where such flowers are auctioned off and immediately loaded onto planes for flying to the buyers.