Obviously you dont get my point, A person who is a Kollel person should not just study torah, he should live torah and people should be able to look at them and say What a Kiddush Hashem they are.
When people have to do things to surive to learn in kollel that are bordering the fence between legal and illegal it does not create a kiddish hashem .
A kollel family should not just keep the torah to the letter of the law, they should go above the law and not even come close to the greyish area. They should be examples to the community and the world as a whole.
The ‘Smell good” term was used to describe this greyish area of legal vs illegal