When I bought the plant last year (from a garden centre, so variety unknown) its flowers were very sweetly scented. To my delight, I have managed to flower it again, and the first two flowers have just opened, but they have no scent. Shouldn`t they smell immediately on opening? I noticed the same with a zygopetalum : scented when I bought it, but not any more. Maybe it`s me, although my husband cannot smell them either.
Incidentally, when the flower spikes were just beginning to show at the top of the canes (pseudobulbs?) on the cattleya, they were green. Then they turned brown and I thought that they had rotted. I was going to pull them out with tweezers, in case they caused the canes to rot, but, fortunately, I didn`t do it straightaway, because the brown sheaths split and the buds appeared. Didn`t know that. Do now!
Thanks Kate