I love spring! Oh my goodness! This happens every year around the end of February and beginning of march – something in Hollywood blooms. I think it’s a tree in the image for this post, but I have never been able to pin point exactly where the scent comes from, it just magically smells pretty in Hollywood, California starting in the last week or so of February. I now associate the scent with being home and with welcoming because it’s how the neighborhood smelled when my husband and I moved here 5 years ago. I always know it’s spring and I’m home when I get off the subway from work. The scent crawls down into the subway so it gets stronger as you get to ground level.

I was so sad last Saturday when I spent most of the day at friend’s house and the scent had faded away. As soon as I headed home and emerged from the subway station, there it was again.

I wish I could have it as a perfume – I would wear it year round!