The shirts might not smell real sweet, but they're blessed protection against the filth and the bugs.
The blood was smeared high up on the armpits and the shirt smelled unused.
"Your shirt smells as bad as the armor."
His shirt was mostly dry, but smelled of ale and vomit.
The shirt smelled of sweet herbs.
My shirts all smell like apple juice and have permanent tomato-sauce stains where a child hugged my neck.
His chain-mail shirt smelled very foul to him just now, and his skin cringed away from its touch.
"So it was a surprise, to say the least, that Beckham's shirt smelled only of perfume."
His shirt smelled of vinegar, as if he had not washed for a long time.
Her spare shirt smelled of sheep and smoke, but was, she thought, somewhat cleaner.