Stolen from here.
The streets are surprisingly fragrant nowadays, thanks to the tall bushes with small orange blossoms everywhere. After asking four different people, and getting four different answers, I learned they're osmanthus fragrans, or sweet osmanthus. When I first smelled them on Sunday I thought I had picked up some stray perfume somewhere, but then I realized it wasn't me that smelled good. :( The frangrance mercifully masks the stench that normally spreads throughout the school, since it is the responsibility of students to quote-unquote clean it.
Stolen from here.
The orange variety is called 금목서 in Korean, and a white variety is 은목서. The 금 means gold, the 은 silver. Quite a few images of the orange kind available via a Naver search.
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