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Los Angeles has amazing smells: the ocean, the dust of the dry soil, night jasmine, cactus and desert blooms.

Scents range from the spicy cardamom and jasmine of the Phillip, recalling the night jasmine blooms outside the couple's home, to the fenugreek and vanilla inspired by Jay's love of sunny beach days.

Just as the night jasmine gives up its perfume to the night, so does an old house its past in the form of murmurs and crackings and memories and suggestions.

The night jasmine, in full green, was not yet in blossom but it was visibly thinking of the spring.

Besides, there's music, and there's the fragrance of night jasmine.