Whenever I investigate a smell, I find that the answer is always bad. It's never: 'What is that? *sniff* muffins!'
The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell.
If you smell something, say something.
I wrinkled my nose, trying to figure out what he smelled like. Not cigarettes. Something richer, fouler. Cigars.
To smell, though well, is to stink.
Smell the cheese often so you know when it is getting old.
All fresh meat is eaten in a state of decay. The process may not have proceeded so far that the dull human nose can discover it, but a carrion bird or a carrion fly can smell it from afar.
