What 'scent' you hear ?  was it the fragrance of this slightly tender, deciduous, early-flowering Chinese shrub; bearing dense heads of fragrant little yellow flowers ?

Please visit AllChinaNet and enjoy a veritable feast, with permitted LINKAGE:

to their...                CHINESE GARDEN

Please visit SMSO.NET, through LINKAGE:      

               Chinese garden 17 essential elements

Please visit China Info, through LINKAGE:      Pavilions

Please visit Chinadougong.com, through LINKAGE:

                    Ting

And / Or        Zong

The natural sounds, that stimulate, our senses...

beyond even ocular demonstration...

And in a Chinese garden, can you see & hear

from the roof tiles above...

down via the banana & bamboo leaves below...

perhaps getting close enough to see each drop...

glistening in the sunlight after the shower...

or dripping on downwards, to the garden & ponds below..

Please visit Mr. CHAI Dafang's Thesis on The Master-Of-Nets China Garden, in Suzhou, through LINKAGE:

                                      Grace of Rain

Wind whistles through the garden.....

In the ambiance of Classical Chinese Gardens....

We, at Chinese garden scene, are not yet sure and are perhaps ambivalent about the matter.

However, wind whistles through the gardens and sounds the chimes, hanging in the pavilions....

Please visit Siamese dream, through LINKAGE:  Forbidden City Windchime

We have some of these ourselves and can testify to the soothing ambiance they produce.

We are however, all different in this regard, so visit some options after the following Chinese Chime, LINKAGE:

                      Chime.com.cn 

                      Shop by Sound     @ ecowindchimes.com

                      101WindChimes

                  Wind Chimes Pavilion

                Spiritwinds.com/tranquility

And if your Chinese garden is too sheltered....

     The Wind Chimes Company - Wind spinner motor