I used to believe that if you sniffed a flower for too long, then all the delicious scent would go away. So whenever my mom asked me if I wanted to smell the flower, I would only kind of smell it, in fear of it losing all it's scent
A childhood belief about plants

others believed things like this
- When I was little I thought that a "wallflower" was a kind of flower that grew on walls.— A. Nonny-Muss
- I used to believe that when I farted, i could smell up all the stench before anyone else could smell it.— Tim
- i used to believe that a perrenial was a particular flower's name— Ducki
- I used to believe that I could smell when it was going to snow.
(I still can!)— sw - Skunks smell bad because they eat garbage.— Isabel
- I used to believe that hairspray was made of grapes! =) Does't it smell grapey to you? XD— Jaime