What are some memorable smells from your childhood?

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Gosh, I miss smells. Literally I lost my sense of smell after a bad sinus infection. I miss the smell of a distant campfire, honeysuckle, fresh cut grass. My first real girlfriend wore this vanilla oil and when I would smell something like it it reminded me of her and all the good times we had. Grandads basement had a faint aroma of tool oil, I think fondly of tinkering there as a kid when I smelled that.

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