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Decomposing matter affronts us with a smell (5)

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I was thinking the answer must be HUMUS as that is decomposed organic matter but is it? If it is, I can't quite work out the rest of the clue about a smell.

nos habebit humus and hum = smell

another saying for something smells, it hums

Thank you!