YOU SAID:
His hair smelled cloyingly sweet
INTO JAPANESE
彼の髪はひどく甘いにおいがした
BACK INTO ENGLISH
His hair smelled terribly sweet.
INTO JAPANESE
彼の髪はひどく甘いにおいがした。
BACK INTO ENGLISH
His hair smelled terribly sweet.
That didn't even make that much sense in English.