Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993.
redolent (adj.)
means “smelling (of), giving off an odor (of)”: Her clothes were redolent of moth balls and cedar closets. It can combine with of or with: The air was heavily redolent of [with] the scent of pine needles. Some argue that redolent, like so many other words having to do with smells, always has pejorative overtones, but that is clearly not so. Figurative uses are frequent, meaning “to evoke memories or images (of),” and these tend usually to be pleasant: His memories of her were redolent of warm summer evenings at the shore.
