Before he could answer - as if he even had an answer - a sickly-sweet smell hit them.

Most, burned black, were still smoldering, filling the air with the sickly-sweet smell of burned flesh.

An odd, unpleasant, sickly-sweet smell erupted into the night.

The sickly-sweet smell of formaldehyde is the first thing to greet a visitor at the entrance to the three-room museum.

A sickly-sweet smell of burning flesh drifted in the air, but no one except Perrin seemed to notice.

And a rotted, sickly-sweet smell she associated with gangrene.

An acidic, sickly-sweet smell was in the air.

There was a sickly-sweet smell that deepened as they rose.

Bananas had a sickly-sweet smell when they were too ripe and the insects stirred around them.

She managed to fire another shot, and then the woman was on her, all fury and muscle accompanied by a sickly-sweet smell.