Downwind of the whale, the occasional breeze raised the stinging odor of rotting flesh.
Work crews give priority to debris piles emitting the distinctive odor of rotting bodies.
At certain subway stops, the odor of rotting flesh returns, as though from a winter in Arizona, and all over town you can enjoy the blossoming of that chief attribute of New York: the smell of urine.
All these were concentrated at the last moment when the ferries crashed against the swaying piles and the odor of rotting wood came up just as the iron rattle of the machinery prepared for for the reception of the boats.
Since its out-of-town tryout in Chicago late last year, some wondered why an audience would want a whiff of the sickly odor of rotting souls that "Sweet Smell" provides.
The odor of rotting vegetables disgusts most of us, and for good reason: Eating bad food can make us sick.
All food trash is composted, which contributes to a constant odor of rotting organics fruits, vegetables, and coconuts.
9 Humans and many other organisms have evolved innate revulsion to the odor of rotting flesh, possibly as an adaptation to avoid infection.
Delving into these wetlands, she finds in their array of strange fauna and flora an objective correlative to the place in the mind where artistic inspiration occurs: a place of blurred borders, shifting identity, and strange odors, of rot and death, of Zen peacefulness.
These rallies smell of rot, the stench rising from these hollow crowds carries the odor of lynch mobs and blacklisters, Father Coughlin and the Silent Majority.
