Help identifying a plant please

[OursonAnglaise]

Can anyone identify this plant? It is a shrub/small tree. White flowers which absolutely stink (well to me anyway, if I was being kind I would describe it as a very pungent floral smell - worse than elderflower!).

Photo taken as I found a very pretty beatle which I had not seen before. Loved the fact that is a Bee Beatle!

 

[Millet]

Not that i have any idea but them leaves look like some kind of Rhododendron. ?

 

[madasafish]

No idea but nice picture of a beetle.

 

[Anduril]

Looks like privet

 

[Millet]

Is it not a little early for Privet. ?

 

[Iainwilk01]

Flowers look like Jasmine

 

[Anduril]

Is it not a little early for Privet. ?

Not sure when it would flower in France.

 

[Millet]

Not sure when it would flower in France.

haha me neither but around here it is usually towards the end of summer.

 

[Suzi Q]

Leaves look like Choisya ternata, I don't like the smell either.

 

[OursonAnglaise]

Having looked at images for privet & choisya tenants, I think it must be privet.......we have a privet hedge at our UK house, but didn't know that it flowered due to being regularly trimmed! Lol

Thank you all

 

[OursonAnglaise]

To be specific I think it's Ligustrum Japonica

 

[Motobiman]

Bit early for choysia.
Easy to identify privet as they smell of cats pee, very strongly.
How big is this shrub, does it have thorns or spines and what shape are the leaves?
My first thought was Escallonia.

 

[GaryB]

If I'm not mistaken, it's Ligustrum Japonicum or Japanese privet. It is quite pungent.

 

[Millet]

I love the smell of the privet in this neck of the woods. it reminds me of meadow sweet smell.

 

[OursonAnglaise]

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