They do smell like a dead animal. Explaining what a scent is like to someone who has never smelled it is not something I know how to do, though. Maybe if you’ve ever smelled rotting seaweed on a hot day on the beach, that’s a little towards what it is like?
So kind of like the smell of the water in a vase of dead flowers, maybe?
If you really want to know you could order the main chemicals involved in the smell of death, putrescine and cadaverine.
Or, cheaper and more accurately, buy a bag of these, leave it unrefrigerated for a few days, then open it.
Meanwhile, looks like the live feed is over. Too bad, I wanted to see how detumesced it was now.