Summertime, and the city is stinky. Trash bags ooze, urine coats subway platforms, and the scent of frying kebabs curls among the skyscrapers. The warm-weather assault on New Yorkers’ noses has taken place every year since New Amsterdam days, but its specific qualities keep changing. These days, the funky tang of marijuana has become as ubiquitous as cigarette smoke once was — surely a sign that city life is improving.
— Read more at The History of That New York Street Smell, From Manure to Marijuana at New York Magazine.
its hot and stinky, but there is still no place I would rather be ..
A little stink isn’t so bad when you’re in the city 🙂
I read about the NY maple syrup smell phenomenon just the other day. Something about a really strong aroma-chemical that was enough to send wafts of mapley scent through all of Manhattan.
I wish there Stockholm was more pot-smelling. But Swedes are really stuck up about things like that. I remember an article by our former minister of justice about the “death drug Marijuana”. A bit of research wouldn’t hurt.
Yes — https://nstperfume.com/2009/02/05/its-always-new-jersey/