Smelltime
/ˈsmɛltaɪm/ noun Nostalgia
“A smell that operates a time machine to a place you can no longer visit.”
— “That specific laundry-detergent smell is pure smelltime, and I'm suddenly eight years old in my grandmother's hallway.”
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