smell of 1980

Photo credit: via Phillip Pessar/Flickr, Simon Evans/Flickr, George Kelly/Flickr – A Mrs. Fields cookie shop, a can of Aqua Net, and a teenager smoking.

Internet, Pop Culture, Popular

Someone asked, ‘What did the ’80s smell like?’ and the scent memories are a time warp

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