Continuative てform of adjective and noun > …… **** My TL: Something smells. This swith smell after the rain. A presence like a 10000 yen bill you hid on paycheck day and became unable to recall it. I am certain, the smell of a secret. Shouldn't it be ..... Or am I wrong?

The basic structure is comprised of modified with three modifiers of (1) , (2) and (3) ….

is enough as it is, but it's interfered with another clause and somehow changed to the te form.

It may look strange that is used adverbially here, but using would feel clumsy since there's another as in . In addition, analogy to adverbs that represent time kind of makes it sound natural.