Or perhaps your odor overpowers their senses.
The odor of rotten vegetation is overpowering now, as if a whole division's food supplies had been left out in the sun for a week.
The odor of those bodies was itself overpowering.
The odor was overpowering, even oppressive: dog food mixed with animals and accidents.
They had not been collected for months and the odour of excrement was overpowering.
The odor of kerosene, used to clean the floors and repel bugs, was overpowering.
The odor of putrefaction overpowered the smell of damp earth.
The rodent odor was overpowering, and it took some time before one could breathe normally.
After I've loaded all these toilets in the back of my truck, the odor can be overpowering.
The odor was overpowering, even in the downpour.