Literature employs "malodor" as a vivid marker of decay and moral corruption. It is used not only to depict the physical repugnance of things like overflowing sewage or smoldering corpses—as in the portrayal of a stench that "creeps abroad like the malodor of a cloaca" ([1]) or a scent carrying the residue of tobacco and discarded smokes ([2])—but also to evoke metaphorical deterioration, hinting at ethical disintegration as noted in the weary acknowledgment of a pervasive foulness ([3]). The term is clearly indexed among its synonyms in authoritative lexicons, underscoring its connotations with stench and decay ([4]). Moreover, it is employed to underline the catastrophic aftermath of battle, with imagery conjured up by the burning remnants of an army’s bodies producing a vast malodor ([5]).