Usage of the word "ripe"

Factual Questions
1

I’m wondering - when did the word “ripe” come to mean “bad-smelling”? Has this usage always been around, or is it a more recent thing?

2

I am 38 and the usage has been around for most of my life. I first heard it used that way in reference of poop filled baby diapers and it is used as a bit of a joke. Just a WAG but that may be a comparison to fancy cheeses which ‘ripen’ and sometimes smell quite bad unlike fruits and vegetables which generally don’t

3

Generally things that are rip smell much more than before they ripen. Of course, in the case of fruits, ripe things usually smell sweet. It doesn’t seem too much of a stretch to apply the word ripe to foul smelling things, and I’ve heard this usage for as long as I can remember – which is quite a while as I’m 63.

4

A properly ripe cheese can be notoriously stinky, such as is the case with limburger and other smear cheeses.

5

It’s a development of the sense below from the OED. See the 1962 quote, although some earlier quotes have the connotation of pungency, perhaps unpleasant.

6

That made me chuckle.

7

Thanks, folks!

8

I imagined it came from cheese and more likely meat, in the days before refrigeration.

9

The first pop culture reference I can think of was in the “Ghostbusters” movie. Bill Murray says that little Oscar (played by John Denver’s nephew(s)) is getting a little “ripe.”