stench

By four minutes, the foul stench was gone, replaced by an "average burnt rubber" scent.

On a recent morning, a sour-sweet stench wafted in the air, and a blanket of flies settled on the ground near the spilled produce boxes that amass after weeks of neglect.

“Starting first thing in the morning, talk about the stench. Then you call the state and nothing happens,” Dermish said.

Rico said that while spending nights nearby in Imperial Beach, he was awakened by a stench that he described as piercing, something he also heard from residents.

He is a hoary phoenix rising from the ashes of his own stench so often he resembles the s**t demon in “Dogma.”