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.
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.
"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".
"These strong smells are repulsive to humans," warns Kenneth Kramm, who developed FlavoRx with his father, Harold.
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.
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.
While it mostly tastes like sugar soda, the smell is so repulsive (think rancid blue cheese) that it's hard to get past.
It should not smell suspect or repulsive.
As a child I found the smell of durian absolutely repulsive.
