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[quote=Anonymous]Most of the recommendations before are terrible invasive. If OP plants lily of the valley, they will bloom for a week and take over everything.  My recommendations below are super fragrant, well behaved and suitable for a small yard. Please google the pics and growing conditions, as I can't link pictures anymore.

phlox divaricata 'blue moon' cultivar. Smells amazing and fresh. I hate Home Depot, but they had them for $6 in the spring.
Gelsemium sempervirens - same, $10 at Home Depot, smells sweet and fresh
"My Mary" Native Azalea - smells like creme brulee and cinnamon rolls 
rhododendron viscosum - smells very sweet. If your yard is wet, this is a good choice
Clethra alnifolia Sugartina - very sweet, stays small, blooms in shade
calycanthus floridus 'Athens' - super fragrant, blooms in shade, smells like bubblegum
Magnolia virginiana Sweet Thing 'Perry Paige' - smells like lemon, is evergreen, and grows like a shrub. It's a great choice for small spaces. 
Hamamelis virginiana - love the smell (sweet spicy) and it blooms in the late fall
Asclepias syriaca - spreads but it's easy to contain. Smells like vanilla. Hard to find, but Asclepias exaltata is the most fragrant milkweed and blooms in shade.

If you like gardenia and jasmine, the native azaleas are similar in smell: Rhododendron periclymenoides (Pinxter Azalea), Rhododendron arborescens (Sweet Azalea), Rhododendron prinophyllum (Early Azalea), and Rhododendron viscosum (Swamp Azalea)

I also use some incredibly fragrant native Florida plants in containers and keep them in the sunroom over the winter.

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