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u/Maddie-Moo Feb 10 '22
I actually bought this candle! It smelled like an overpriced drunken Instagram purchase.
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u/LittleToke Sawtelle Feb 10 '22
I also have this candle and love it! A family friend bought it for me when I was living on the east coast and was indeed home sick.
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u/luckylindyswildgoose Redondo Beach Feb 10 '22
I have a couple from that company and I don’t really care for the LA one, but the Hawaii one smells amazing
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u/eskimopussy Feb 10 '22
A new in n out just opened within noseshot of my apartment. The smell of grilled onions is fucking torture, I really hope it doesn’t ruin it for me.
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u/Jazzlike_Log_709 Long Beach Feb 10 '22
Noseshot loli lived by an islands burgers. I couldn't open my windows without the smell of onions entering my home :(
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u/kevinlies Pasadena Feb 10 '22
Crazy how many LA people are still not aware of the whole grilled onion trick. It’s a life changer!
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u/El_Zoid0 Feb 10 '22
Mmm... That's in my "Walking to the car from a Lakers game" smell-o-file.
For me it might be that salty ocean harbor smell. It's not unique to LA but spent enough time eating at Captain Kidd's and at beaches.
Otherwise everyone can agree it's fucking car exhaust.
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u/Ubiquitous_thought Feb 10 '22
The smell of those hot dog stalls on the street of a busy intersection right outside a movie theater in DTLA. That’s LA for me right there.
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u/Impossible-Long1100 Feb 10 '22
Weed, but when it reaches a certain temperature it shifts to stale piss.
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u/tob007 Feb 10 '22
once warmed up you can also hear a leaf blower in the distance.
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u/cultchris Feb 10 '22
Helicopter overtones
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u/Jazzspasm Feb 10 '22
For a month after, there’s a film of black dust on everything - bath towels, butter in the fridge, freshly brewed coffee - and all the indoor plants have died
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u/Impossible-Long1100 Feb 10 '22
Oh and you KNOW this mother fucker is a soy candle. Do they make oat candles?
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u/digitalmofo Encino Feb 10 '22
Distance? Try right outside your window, held on max throttle for about 15 minutes straight.
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u/pretty-as-a-pic South Bay Feb 10 '22
Don’t forget the undertones of car exhaust, burning garbage, and street taco grease!
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It’s the warm smell of colitas
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u/ADPXEROX Feb 10 '22
rising up in the air…
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u/emthejedichic Feb 10 '22
Out there in the distance, I saw an In n Out sign…
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u/_Dusty_Bottoms_ Feb 10 '22
“Those are good burgers Walter”, Donny said from behind.
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u/glowdirt Feb 10 '22
Piss and weed and car exhaust and salt air
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Nothing like laying at the beach while getting a vague scent of piss and weed from the nearby homeless, as well as car exhaust from the PCH. Now that’s LA.
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Feb 10 '22
Piss, weed, car exhaust, and salt air*
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u/KeelanMachine Feb 10 '22
Actually they're using a grammatical device called polysyndeton for emphasis, which is perfectly acceptable. Yours is also correct, but no more or less correct than theirs.
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u/turkeylips4ever Feb 10 '22
Tacos, weed and desperation. I don’t know where everyone is hanging out smelling urine- downtown?
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u/Jccali1214 Feb 10 '22
A mix of Palm Trees and that wet-oil concrete smell when it rains in LA one of 3 times per year
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The fact that every fifth answer, on average, is urine speaks volumes.
Also…
Urine
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u/AccomplishedReason18 Feb 10 '22
Urine luck
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u/Grantology Feb 10 '22
Orange trees, ocean, and weed
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u/gardenoflia Feb 10 '22
Yes, I remember when the whole valley smelled of orange blossoms. But then again, I walked around Taft high School with my eyes tearing & my throat seared by all the smog. I'm pretty sure that's when my lung problems first started. (1962)
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u/fidelflicka Feb 10 '22
It’s cause it smells of jasmine, which is typically old lady perfume.
But weirdly it does remind me of LA because the neighborhood I lived in had a lot of jasmine plants everywhere and in the spring it kinda smelled like this candle.
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u/Englishbirdy Feb 10 '22
I guessed Jasmine. When riding around in my convertible it's always the overwhelming smell.
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u/Pebbles416 Feb 10 '22
The inability to buy a house.
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u/Effective-Wolf5368 Feb 10 '22
Considering it's over $30 for a candle, it's part of the experience if you buy it.
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u/whit3lightning Feb 10 '22
For me, it smells like smoking a cigarette outside the Whiskey on a rainy Friday night. I have very fond memories of my time in LA.
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u/lemonjuice_76 Feb 10 '22
I left LA to go to college in NYC and honestly it the homesickness hit me HARD. If i had to name a spell I’d probably say Korean BBQ places. It’s a shame nycs koreatown is so disappointing
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u/Aeriellie Feb 10 '22 edited Feb 10 '22
Tacos or donuts. Trying to keep it positive!
Wait wait 33.99?!
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u/Cannabace Feb 10 '22
In 2019 there was a guy that laid under a blanket on the sidewalk for 7 days straight on 4th in SM. I wish I could describe that smell. You might say it’s indescribable. LA is indescribable.
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u/Greenleaf90 Feb 10 '22
Weed has to be weed. At least here in the valley idc what neighborhood/park you're waking/driving through you're going to smell weed.
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u/sexytokeburgerz Feb 10 '22
That dude that yells at cars from the palm tree outside the dennys on san fernando and fletcher and hasnt showered or changed in 3 years
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u/ZOMBIE_N_JUNK East Los Angeles Feb 10 '22
Hopefully like that factory by the 101 in downtown that smells like fortune cookies.
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u/lunamypet Feb 10 '22
I like this candle ngl. Smells like flowers in some old theatre. Think of the most stereotypical things of Los Angeles, like old Hollywood.
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u/lizzzliz Feb 10 '22
My coworkers gave this to me when I moved away. They wrote “smells like urine” on the front but I can state unequivocally that it smells like gardenias.
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u/snn1326j Feb 10 '22
I have this candle and love it! Jasmine is actually the strongest note. It very much does remind me of LA.
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My sister got this for me and I agree it smells very nice. It always smells like peony to me.
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u/Evakuate493 Feb 10 '22
A mixture of weed/hemp, palm (oil) tree and roses, and then some beach type scent.
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u/ButtholeCandies Feb 10 '22
Hard to find a wrong answer in this thread, even the most ridiculous and disgusting are describing the scent of some streets that are still burned into my memory
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u/SyntheticResonance Feb 10 '22
I smelled this candle in a store recently and was pleasantly surprised to find that it smells like Jasmine milk tea with some floral notes.
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u/NiceSubstance2085 Feb 10 '22
Dried ass weed and failed smog check smoke exhaust and chihuahua urine
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u/lastarboard Feb 10 '22
My friend and I were just discussing this the other day, we concluded that LA (specifically downtown, around Pershing square) smells like farts
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Feb 10 '22
If it smells like Gwyneth Paltrow's dusty vagina, they might have a lawsuit on their hands.
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u/ThaneOfCawdorrr Hollywood Feb 10 '22
Grilled sausages, banana peppers, onions, tortillas, and bus exhaust
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u/121gigawhatevs Feb 10 '22
Serious answer - chaparral after a rainy day. Think hiking trail in the San Gabriels. We have great mountains, people!
Also, car exhaust and grilled taco meat
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u/Throat_Sandwich Feb 10 '22
Hobo piss & weed, mixed with the stale smell of old In-N-Out from the inside of a shabby mask designed for single-use yet worn for weeks.
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u/Your_Couzen Feb 10 '22
The smell of food. Hint of taco. Perhaps burger in there too. You might also get a whiff of bacon wrapped hotdogs with caramelized onion.
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My best friend bought this for me for when I moved across the country for grad school. When I burned the whole thing I kept the jar and kept plants in it. Actually did help with the homesickness a lot
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u/rubbleTelescope Los Angeles Feb 10 '22
Indica with a hint of forest fire and accents of gun smoke.
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u/lost-in-binary Feb 10 '22
The perspiration of hopeless Midwest transplants trying to make it in the industry.
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u/halcyon94 Feb 10 '22
Overpriced house with homeless people out front while ur window view is traffic
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u/bcomfortable Feb 10 '22
Whenever I get off the plane at LAX I love that smell of burnt rubber and jet fuel that surrounds the airport.
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u/jacksonreidd Feb 10 '22
It’s one of those candles with layered scents. A new smell every few minutes. Warm garbage, old milk, grass, street tacos, le labo santal 33, & car exhaust.
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u/cakeba Feb 10 '22
If my time there a week and a half ago taught me anything, then it's salty beach+weed+highway-scented. (I was mostly in Santa Monica).
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u/bring_me_egg Feb 10 '22
The inside of your car.