i have searched and searched and i cannot narrow down an answer for what this huge thorny bush/shrub it was huge at least 5-6 feet tall, and 9 feet across!
The smell was amazing! I could smell it from 3 feet away!
Probably the rosa multiflora, wild rose, which is an invasive exotic from Asia, sometimes called Japanese rose. It is very weedy and will turn your property into a bramble patch.