🔥Fall in southern Korea apparently smells like osmanthus right now

Busan here, it's very real. You walk past one tree and suddenly the whole block smells like apricot candy. Then a week later it's gone and you're sad for no reason. Come mid October, not late

Same tree is kinmokusei in Japan and Osaka smells like it right now too. It's strong for about a week, then one rain knocks the tiny orange flowers onto the sidewalk. Worth timing a trip for

Meanwhile October here smells like wet leaves and a neighbour's wood stove. Getting marinated by a tree sounds like an upgrade. Is it sweet like perfume or more fruity?

Seoul gets a few trees too, near some old apartment complexes. You smell it before you see it, then spend five minutes looking for which bush it is. Rain the next day ruins it every year

The 29-years-in-Suncheon person is me with every nice thing around me. Lived next to a bakery for two years and only noticed when it closed

Does it bloom in Jeju too?

immune to an entire tree for 29 years is a talent

Hanoi has one like this in autumn, hoa sữa. People either love it or get headaches

Osmanthus perfumes are a thing and they're lovely. Now I want the real tree

A reason to visit in October I didn't know I needed

*inhales through my screen*

Planning a trip around a smell is the most romantic thing I've read today

Getting marinated in a smell after rain is such a good phrase

The photos are so soft, those orange flowers are tiny

osmanthus tea exists right? Can I drink my way into this experience

금목서 = golden 목서 (osmanthus). I think there's a white one too, 은목서?

Smell is the one thing dramas can never show you. Now I'm curious

My wife wants an October trip now. I blame this thread and the apricot candy comment

Seoul office worker confirming the hedge thing. You smell it near the bus stop and then never find the tree

Getting marinated by a tree after the rain is the most romantic sentence anyone has written on this board

Is it actually strong enough to notice walking by, or is this one of those things the internet hypes? Asking before I plan a whole trip

"Smells like teen spirit" was wrong all along. It smells like osmanthus

planning an October trip just for this now. love this board

Late afternoon light on those tiny orange flowers is my favorite thing to photograph in October. The smell doesn't fit in the photo though