This is a large shrub (about 8 feet tall and a bit Sigmund and the Seamonster-ish), flowers are about 3 inches across and have a beautiful scent. Should I try my hand with some cuttings?

Thanks so much!

LOL to a "generic" wild rose it's just wild rose which is a one time bloomer in early spring in a small 4 petal count fragerance sweet in white and sometimes pink single cane with muti flowerings and massive hips in fall a green foilage depending on sun exposure to dark green. I lost track of wild rose prior to 1500 AD in the middle east parts of the world perhaps Northern Afganistan

hips contain seedlings inside them a bird or animal of some type carried and droped enough hips to grow the wild rose can also drop there hips

I wouldn't reccomend cutting or root digging a wild rose for your yard, but this one will do fine with some easy care and prunning. Keep an eye on it from time to time and wait till spring to get a few cuttings as there is an expired patten # If on private property you should ask the owner of property for cuttings ( a rose growers ethical practice )

PS nice pic thanks for the added growing info Enjoy

If it has thorns like fishhooks & smells divine, I'd bet on it.

You can grow Mermaid from cuttings very easily, but you need a huge space for it;
I had one once, & had to have it removed when it grew so big that I couldn't get out of the house when rain bowed down the canes!

but it was heavenly for scent, for wildlife habitat, & for its evergreen foliage.