Do you perchance have any pets? Or any animals that could have come near the plant?

Are the stems OK? Like firm and not black? I don't mean to alarm you, but rot can smell bad. Edit: also, are any leaves falling off if you just touch them?

Mievskistefan i do have a dog but she is to small to gerne up there.

Jeff(5b)(5) No the stems are a nice dark brown color the same as when I got them and also the leaves dont fall of.

Maybe an ID--from someone else--would be helpful at this point.

I bet it have you the first signs of sun burn. I suspect the nursery that planted the seed to the one you bought this plant from kept their plants in the shade. And you placed it in a sunny window.

Should I introduced the succulent slowly to the sunlight or just keep it in the shade?

Lisa, are you certain that you havent moved the plant prior to its smelly issues, to a location where your dog could have urinated on it? Even for a minute?

Rob, ive sunburnt a lot of plants...... none actually smelled in a way that could be smelling like a shoe

Jeff, i think its something among the lines of an echeveria hybrid, with another genus.

No my dog couldn't have jumped there because it was standing on the windowsill and that is four times higher than she is.

Lisa, I have no clue what could be going on and have never experienced his problem, but it’s interesting you just put this up because I just watched a video on YouTube about stinky plants.

Here’s a Link to the video.

I didnt ask wheter or not your pet could perform acrobatics I asked wheter or not the plant has been moved to a reacheable location, even for a short period of time. Eg, you cleaned the window, repot, etc,

Just before you call me out,consider the following

-sweat has ureatic acid in it, therefore and old shoe would have absorbed a lot it, thus the foul smell

-leaves look like they have been chemical burned(phototoxicity), not regular sunburn, this is similar when water is sprayed on a plant during a hot day, and the effect amplifies with acidity(like in insecticide), thus giving them a weird surface

Definitely introduce it to sun slowly. At one time I thought that since cactus and succulents like sun so much, I could just put them outside and not harden them off. Some of my cactus got sunburn that's still there. Even they need acclimation to it, even if its in a window. Like Rob mentioned, most greenhouses where they're grown are shaded to some degree.

Okay I'll first repot the succulent and then introduce it to the sunlight in slow steps. Thanks everyone for helping! If I need help again I know where to ask.

Do you have appropriate soil for it? Cactus & Succulent mix, w/ Perlite in equal portions.

Better pix of the plant would help w/ ID, more light pls & closer up.

It is potted in sand, i am going to repot it with succulent soil. I am going to make better fotos later. I didn't use it on any of my plants yet but i do have succulent fertilizer which you put in the water and than water the plants with.

So here are the Pictures

Looks like an Aeonium- possibly A. ‘Bronze Medal’

Aren't some Aeoniums known to be a bit smelly?

Good to get an ID. Now we're getting somewhere:

[https://www.houzz.com/discussions/aeonium-smells-bad-dsvw-vd~3463393[(https://www.houzz.com/discussions/aeonium-smells-bad-dsvw-vd~3463393)

"dried urine on walls behind taverns" - Pagan has a way with words. :)

After reading the other conversation I agree that the smell is rather like dried urine on walls behind taverns than like I described it. But it is good to know that it is just something from the Aeonium family and not like a parasite or sickness or something like that.