"She produced the key from her pocket and opened the trunk in my presence - this was a great honor for me, for the venerable trunk had never before been opened in the presence of another person - and immediately there wafted out of it a strange yet familiar scent, a scent of age, a smell of the distant past, of years which have been folded up and stored away."

Which word/phrase helps to create the mood in this passage?

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pocket
great honor
trunk
for me

a scent of age