Scarth could smell decaying flesh inside the den even before he entered.

She was only a few feet into the alley before she smelled burnt flesh.

His face was that of one who had just smelled rotting flesh.

The warmer the room became, the more he could smell rotting flesh and urine.

Trooper Ruane said he had smelled decaying flesh once before in 1990.

And yes, I thought I could still smell burned flesh in the air.

Basically, what he's doing is smelling flesh in the air, and it's just coming out of the cracks.

But if a dog smelled flesh, people sensed hope that victims were still alive, no matter how unlikely it seemed.

I smelled cooking flesh but saw no mortal wounds.

Was it his imagination, the residue of the dream, or did he smell burning flesh?