The word "putrescence" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means a state or process of rotting, a foul smell, or a decaying condition. You can use it to describe something that is decaying or rotting. For example: "The putrescence of the old furniture filled the room with an unappetizing odor."
By the end, you may have been dazzled and moved; you may have laughed; you may have vomited torture, shit and putrescence are everywhere; but whatever else, you will have had your aesthetics shaken.William Buelow Gould is a convict-artist, transported for forgery to Van Diemen's Land, as Tasmania used to be known, in 1828; but really the circle begins further back.
Also well known are his paintings of hung poultry and carcasses of beef, which convey the colour and luminosity of putrescence.
Alternatively, moisture may be provided by the rotting of main bracts (e.g., in some species of Amomum, another genus in the family Zingiberaceae), so that fruits develop in a mass of black putrescence maintained in a wet state by frequent rains.
Lust and disgust keep close company; in McEwan's hypnotic first novel, "The Cement Garden" (1978), another set of children left to their own devices, in another summer of unusual heat, experience the debility and putrescence of the body as well as its tabooed allure.
He made an incision and put in a rubber pipe to drain off the putrescence.
— I say to you that I am dead!" and promptly melts into a pool of putrescence.
The smell in the trench was of fear, and of sweat, blood, vomit, excrement, cordite and the putrescence of cadavers".
The excesses of the Catholic Bulletin's attacks on the "literary putrescence" of the Anglo-Irish writers are contrasted with the "sophisticated" criticism of Daniel Corkery, while the pragmatism of De Valera's politics is regarded sympathetically, as it was by Yeats and Gregory.
The long narrative poem "A Dream Book" also feasts on putrescence: "In the kitchen a meal half-eaten, fruit / gone to mush, maggots in meat, a web of mould on bread.
The problem is that there's a lingering reek of putrescence surrounding the DCEU, thanks largely to its two early efforts both proving to be stinkers.
It was said an approaching slave galley could be smelled two days before it docked, the congealed putrescence of blood, faeces, vomit and rotting bodies wafting downwind.
