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How One L.A. Bus Stop Became a Depot for Experimental Perfumes

The LADOT’s inaugural artist-in-residence has gifted a bus shelter with some truly weird, history-inspired scents.
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Alan Nakagawa

How does one describe the smells at the heart of Los Angeles?

For Alan Nakagawa, it’s sweat-drenched cowboys riding into town for some late-night carousing. It’s the energy flowing around the influx of new shops and residents, and the pleasant but ultimately unexciting monotone of California’s climate.