The phrase "rotten smell" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an unpleasant odor, often associated with decaying organic matter.
Example: "As we walked past the garbage dump, the rotten smell made us gag."
Alternatives: "foul odor" or "putrid scent".
Connie Davis, 76, who lives across the street from the treated yard, said: "You could smell a rotten smell.
A faint rotten smell stayed in the kitchen for a long time after Nina's sister had left.
On return trips in recent weeks, he said, his village was "full of the rotten smell of dead animals".
And because it remains tightly linked to the disgust we experience in the presence of oral contaminants (like putrid meat), it makes sense that inducing disgust with a rotten smell could cause a shift in attitudes toward certain individuals or social groups.
We have also had success with Deervik, a nontoxic, biodegradable paste with the consistency of axle grease and a rotten smell that makes it a chore to smear it on the sticks we place around the squash and other low-growing plants.
The stench is also overwhelming with the sweet rotten smell of piled up garbage mixing with sewage water and rotten food hanging over the town.
But at Sierra Chincua, the dead were certainly there, if not yet as rotten smelling as at Rosario.
From June through September, New Yorkers filed 73 complaints to 311 to report rotten smells wafting from wastewater treatment plants — the lowest number since the city began tracking the complaints in 2002 and down more than 80 percent from the high of 375 in 2007.
If it smells odd( sickly sweet, rotten egg smell, burnt oil etc )do NOT buy the car.
Sulfidogenic bacterial growth was assessed through the formation of black precipitates and production of rotten egg smell of H2S which was checked by withdrawing and smelling the gas using a sterilized disposable syringe.
"Rotten eggy smell, things floating around, couldn't see through it.
