Between 1802 and 1805 John Champneys, a farmer and amateur rose breeder from Charleston, South Carolina, obtained a hybrid between "R. moschata" and one of the early arrivals from China, possibly Parson's Pink China, to which he gave the name "Champneys' Pink Cluster".
A florist relative of his, Philippe Noisette, at that time living in Charleston, planted some seedlings of this rose and obtained in 1814 a repeating light pink rose. He sent some plants to Louis Noisette, a brother of his who owned a nursery near Paris, who reproduced them, and introduced them with great commercial success. The Noisette Roses, about 40 of which are still in cultivation today, have a propensity to behave as climbers, and produce repeatedly beautifully shaped flowers of delicate colours, often with a yellow component. They are not very hardy plants, but have an elegant bearing.