Originally Posted by theBigkill
*hard for me to explain, speedball if you can understand what im getting at maybe you can articulate this for me*
its a long shot and it doesnt happen often but it could be a defective or damaged bowl, if you notice where the water is discharged into the bowl through the little holes around the rim of the toilet, sometimes from the manufacturer there can be a crack or even a hole in the internal wall inside the bowl separating the cavity behind those holes and the downstream end of the s-trap within the bowl. normally the "s-trap" in the bowl would prevent any sewer gas from escaping the soil pipe but in this case the gas would totally bypass the trap and leak through the crack, those little holes in the bowl and then cause that foul odour.
i can't really suggest any real practical way to even test this theory without really feeling inside the toilet itself but i have seen this happen before in my *years* of experience (yeah im a 3rd year apprentice) lol