scent vs stink to high heaven

scent

verb
  • To impart an odour to, to cause to have a particular smell. 

  • To inhale in order to detect the scent of (something). 

  • To detect the scent of; to discern by the sense of smell. 

  • To have a suspicion of; to detect the possibility of (something). 

  • To hunt animals by means of the sense of smell. 

noun
  • A smell left by an animal that may be used for tracing. 

  • Any trail or trace that can be followed to find something or someone, such as the paper left behind in a paperchase. 

  • A substance (usually liquid) created to provide a pleasant smell. 

  • A distinctive smell. 

  • The sense of smell. 

stink to high heaven

verb
  • To have a very strong and unpleasant smell. 

  • Of a person or situation: to be highly ethically dubious; also, of a person: to be very incompetent. 

How often have the words scent and stink to high heaven occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )