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Nah, or the guard would be on higher alert, other than just dismissing someone who looks scruffy.
If I recall correctly, Plague Doctor masks also serve as gas masks, so they might've been working on something stinky. Which might also be why MC is there. He might be looking to commission some sort of monster repellant.
Now that you mention it, before the discovery of bacteria (let alone viruses) it was thought bad smell, miasma, is spreading diseases. So, by preventing the smell/miasma, from reaching your nose and lungs, you'd be protected from harm. Under such a theory, would people always draw a distinction between the smell from a rotting body or the pungent smell from sulphurous chemicals?