pungency vs stench

pungency

noun

  • A foul odor. 

  • The state of being pungent. 

stench

noun

  • a strong foul smell; a stink. 

  • A foul quality. 

verb

  • To stanch. 

How often have the words pungency and stench occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )