The perfume they wear isn' t the best, that' s for sure, but one of the coyotes I got this year smelled way worse than any I can ever remember. It was a female, and I made a head shot on it. None of them smell like roses, but seems that some of them simply smell worse than others. I have shot several back home in Ks. that had severe case of mange, and they smell like death warmed over. I wonder if thier health condition has any thing to do with it. Come to think about it, the female that I got this year that smelled bad, was pretty skinny.