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Old 12-23-2010, 01:13 PM
 
Location: Lovely swampy humid Miami!
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I would also say it is midnight jasmine. But it only starts smelling around 10pm.

What's weird is that we have night blooming Jasmine here in San Diego, but it doesn't have the same scent. Ours starts blooming late feb/early march, but it seems like you folks have a slightly different variant of Jasmine or it might be a mix of this and some other flowers, but I don't know if this is the defining driver behind the "Florida Scent". All I know is that after I leave the airport and catch this scent, I feel like I've been reunited with a long lost lover, and it lights me up like a pinball machine! Literally I get so happy that I laugh out loud like someone who's been given nitrous! The Florida air is like some kind of "Happy" drug for me, and the scent must be hardwired directly into my seratonin receptors or something! LOL!
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Old 12-23-2010, 02:01 PM
 
Location: Trashorida
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I feel like I've been reunited with a long lost lover, and it lights me up like a pinball machine! Literally I get so happy that I laugh out loud like someone who's been given nitrous! The Florida air is like some kind of "Happy" drug for me, and the scent must be hardwired directly into my seratonin receptors or something! LOL!
WOW, what are you inhaling
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Old 12-23-2010, 03:06 PM
 
Location: Hollywood
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You must have a really good sence of smell. because I don't think I'm alone in saying I havent the slightest idea what you are talking about.

But if it makes you happy im glad for you!
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Old 12-23-2010, 05:18 PM
 
Location: South FL
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I think I know exactly what smell you are referring to, but I have no idea what it is. Yet, I also love it.
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Old 12-27-2010, 02:50 PM
 
Location: Weston, FL
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Also I wouldn't be surprised if they pumped some artificial smell into the FLL airport terminals.

After all they play artificial bird sounds in the walkways between the terminals and the garages.
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Old 12-28-2010, 09:41 PM
 
Location: Lovely swampy humid Miami!
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I'm aware that they "scent up" the terminals, in fact I rather like the fragrance they use in Terminal 3 and Terminal 4 -- but most of what I smelled was outside the airport and on state road 7 as well as several businesses there. I smelled it just walking in to pay the cashier at a gas station, so it's an everpresent underlying fragrance that permeates everything in South Florida. I especially like the smell of the tap water in the Miami/FTL area!
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Old 12-29-2010, 11:26 AM
 
Location: Weston, FL
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^^^
as long as you can get past the color of the said water
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Old 12-29-2010, 12:10 PM
 
Location: Lovely swampy humid Miami!
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^^^
as long as you can get past the color of the said water

Everything's Green in Florida!
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Old 12-29-2010, 07:37 PM
 
Location: Hollywood
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-- but most of what I smelled was outside the airport and on state road 7 as well as several businesses there.
I figured out what it is... laundromats!
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Old 01-06-2011, 12:40 AM
 
Location: Fort Worth, Tx
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I'm guessing midnight jasmine - it grows here and is very perfume-y (in a good way!)

OMG, I LOVE that smell..good memories of walking my dog thru Victoria Park at 1am! ..I miss the SoFla (Broward/Airport/Victoria Park) Smell.. trying to move back ASAP,, but jobs aren't working out that way. (sigh)...
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