Help with sentence

[Pingypuff]

三十代と十五歳という
犯罪臭を少しでも
誤魔化す為に

Does this mean something like ''For the purpose of deceiving middle aged criminals if just a little bit''? Or is it ''For the purpose of slightly distracting others from that scent of crime which middle aged men tends to have''? Or maybe it's neither? I Believe it's the first one but in all honesty I have no clue... Like 犯罪臭? What? I know that 犯罪 is ''crime'' and 臭 is a kanji mostly used for smells... Which makes this a scent of crime... Which sounds kinda odd to me... Does it simply mean ''criminal''?


Thanks beforehand.

 

[Glenn]

There's no character missing between 臭 and を? It seems like 犯罪臭さ might be a candidate... Otherwise it seems like "in order to, at least a little, mask the criminal stench of being in one's 30s and 50s." I've got to admit, though, that doesn't make too much sense to me. Where did the 40s go?

 

[Toritoribe]

三十代と十五歳という
犯罪臭を少しでも
誤魔化す為に

Does this mean something like ''For the purpose of deceiving middle aged criminals if just a little bit''? Or is it ''For the purpose of slightly distracting others from that scent of crime which middle aged men tends to have''? Or maybe it's neither? I Believe it's the first one but in all honesty I have no clue... Like 犯罪臭? What? I know that 犯罪 is ''crime'' and 臭 is a kanji mostly used for smells... Which makes this a scent of crime... Which sounds kinda odd to me... Does it simply mean ''criminal''?


Thanks beforehand.

You ignored 十五歳. Those lines are about a relation between two persons; one who is in thier thirties and the other who is fifteen years old. Their relation conjures images of crime (= 犯罪臭[はんざいしゅう]).

 

[Glenn]

Oh, crap. I see I still sometimes get the tens and ones places backwards in Japanese...

That makes more sense. However, 犯罪臭 didn't come up in a dictionary search. Is this some unusual combination or something?

 

[Toritoribe]

犯罪の臭い would be more common, but I don't think this is an uncommon usage of the suffix 臭.

 

[Glenn]

Interesting.

And I managed to miss 歳 for 代. I should really take my time more.