Faced by this unprecedented threat, Humanity prayed for deliverance. They prayed that any god listening would bestow upon them absolution of stench, or some manner by which they could combat their rapidly approaching doom. From this fervent prayer Aroma was born. Aroma, the Goddess of Scent bestowed upon her believers perfume. Her perfume arrived in the form of glades with scented water. The area surrounding these aromatic areas were an anathema to the Putrid, and consequently The Reeking One. Seeing the correlation between this scented water, and the Putrid, people began to douse themselves in it. They soaked their items in it, poured it in their bath water, and an unfortunate few even drank it - though they quickly learned that it should not be ingested lest they wish to become another flower in the glade. The Putrid would shirk from the scent, and it would be revealed that the repeated application of this perfume to the Putrid would undo their transformation. Humanity had turned the tides with the aid of Aroma, and seemingly vanquished this threat -  the sole remaining Putrid was the progenitor of bad scent: The Reeking One.