putrid

The governor’s position while in office, since 2018, has been to project his distaste for the product and its “putrid” smell while quietly working with the industry, which in Florida meant working with Trulieve.

The deep maroon skirt of a blooming corpse flower mimics the color of rotting flesh, part of its ploy, along with its putrid “fragrance,” to attract carrion-loving pollinators.

When the blooms are big enough, they can turn the water fluorescent green and make it smell putrid.

Alongside the health problems is what she describes as a “putrid dead smell” emanating constantly from the water.

There was a separate area where older people slept on thin mattresses under floodlights, and a putrid smell hung in the air, he said.