"stench" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It generally refers to a particularly unpleasant smell, and can be used in a variety of contexts and situations. For example: "The stench of the garbage pile was overpowering."
Children are kept away from the corpse handlers, who are believed to chew garlic to hide the stench of death and take perverse pleasure in their line of work.
By the end of a trip, my own stench really is something to behold.
Not easy, what with all the leaks, belts, nappies, stench and pain.
The harmony of the scene is spoiled only by the smell: the rich notes of the oil mingle in the air with the strange pancake aroma that's emanating from Holman's sweat-soaked trousers and the fetid stench of a blocked toilet next door.
Distrust of stench won the day – for there was no doubting the awful aroma that arose from certain grounds.
All the clues are there: the sulphuric stench of rotten eggs, dead birds falling from the trees, and tremors deep beneath the earth.
Palm trees burned slowly, their fronds crackling and moaning while a heavy stench of dead bodies wrapped the village.
Stoking the flames of anti-Americanism and antisemitism is a good distraction from the stench in their own backyard".
Others noted alternative explanations for the prevalence of fever in the slums – the stench from sewers and the general dirt.
In doing so, he "cooled" the part of his mind that was gasping for nicotine and "warmed up" the calculating bit by making the future consequences of smoking – the stench, the disease – a part of his immediate visceral experience.
Every speech has lines praising hardworking migrants, of course, but the overall tone of this cowardly discourse emits a rancid stench.
