• Infinity’s End
When: Open Monday through Friday, 10am-8pm; Sunday, 1pm-6pm.
Where: 3704 E Independence Blvd. For more info go to www.infinitysend.com.
Check out: What’s summertime without a little waft of patchouli incense? You can get that and more ofactory pleasures (though not the kind that’s meant to waft from the little pipes they sell) at this giant head shop and one-stop destination for all things hippie.
• Dead skunk
When: Preferably at night.
Where: Any rural road.
Check out: Nothing says summertime quite like the musky scent of a dead skunk as you cruise the backroads with the windows down and the satellite radio blasting. What, you don’t like that smell?
• Freshly mowed grass
When: Any Saturday or Sunday morning or afternoon.
Where: The ‘burbs.
Check out: It smells like seaweed salad, kind of. Smells like childhood. It smells like summer.
This article appears in May 17-23, 2006.
