Can You Smell That Smell
 

Every day on my way home I drive through the 15 / 91 overpass (going south on the 15 to the west 91 - or I think it's south and west anyway.)

About 1/3 of the time there is a smell as I drive on the overpass. A bad smell you're thinking? No! That's what makes it odd actually.

Some days it smells like cookies. Other days it's bubblegum. There was a grape smell one day. There have been other pleasant smells as well but I'm not recalling them at the moment.

I refer to it as the scent factory. But I wonder - what in the heck is making those smells? Is there a cookie factory over there? That would explain the cookies but not the other smells so that can't be it. Besides, it would smell like cookies every day then, wouldn't it?

So - can anyone tell me - what in the heck makes it smell like that?

No idea but the town I lived in when I was in Germany had a baby food factory. Chocolate and vanilla days were the best. Veggie days not so much.

Looking at Google Maps there is some commercial space in that interchange armpit with what looks like a small water treatment station (which can produce interesting odors, not always bad).

Unfortunately that is the only part of Corona not covered by Street View so I can't tell what businesses are in there.

Maybe it's a Bernie Bots jelly bean factory. Beware of vomit flavor day!

I'll trade you smells. I get stuck with the rank odor of San Jauquin Refinery every time I am on the 99 (which is a couple times a week).

Before they tore it down a year or two ago, there was a Nabisco cookie factory in Buena Park (right off the I-5).

I had a customer who's office was on the back side of the plant. Not every time I visited, but often, the aroma was very distracting (good smell - not bad). We sometimes had to make a quick run to the corner story for a quick fix.


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Am I the only one now thinking of Lynyrd Skynyrd?

The 101S to the 5S interchange in downtown L.A. smells like vinegar salt potato chips.

Hansen's is in Corona, maybe they can different sodas on different days of the week.

Can you smell that smell
 

Oh, sorry....

At least you aren't talking about this smell - Texas Town Faces Skunk Infestation

Could be worse... there's a landfill or something in Irvine and about 1 in 3 days the smell blows across the 5 fwy