The phrase "repulsive smell" is used in written English, and is usually used to describe an unpleasant scent.
For example, "The repulsive smell of gasoline permeated the air."
The project cheekily code-named "Who, Me?"—would require Crocker's team to create a universally repulsive smell.
The materials he uses include petroleum jelly, polycarprolactone, vomit, expanded polystyrene, fish blood, steel, nylon and shrimp shells (emanating the whisper of a repulsive smell) are among the most sensual and visceral in contemporary art.
Harvard scientists say they're closer to unraveling that question with the discovery of the first receptors in any species evolved to detect cadaverine and, two of the chemical byproducts responsible for the distinctive — and to most creatures repulsive — smell of rotting flesh.
He can stand in an open fire, tread on broken glass, and have a sugarcane spike the size of a cigar driven through his foot and never know about it until the flesh starts to rot and he's woken up one morning by a repulsive smell coming from the end of his bed.
Some diamines that bind to TAARs are foul smelling odors; for example, cadaverine and putrescine are repulsive smells emitted by decomposing flesh.
"The contradiction is in urine itself," Lebensztejn says: an intimate, aesthetic product of one's animal life, it's still "rather repulsive to smell when it's not one's own".
The putrid smell, repulsive to humans, attracts seed-scattering insects and birds.
Researchers now say the bizarre rafflesia -- whose blossoms can measure a yard across and were described by the Swedish explorer Eric Mjoberg as having "a penetrating smell more repulsive than any buffalo carcass in an advanced state of decomposition" -- actually sprang from the gentle group of plants that includes poinsettias, violets and passionflowers.
"These strong smells are repulsive to humans," warns Kenneth Kramm, who developed FlavoRx with his father, Harold.
Try wearing Old Spice (many people find Axe repulsive) or a great smelling body spray.
Sulfur-bearing compounds can emit strong, repulsive odors -- like the smell of old broccoli or cabbage -- as they break down.
