redolence

plural redolences

1. uncountableThe quality of being redolent.

   The air was wine and seltzer, perfumed, as they absorbed it, with the delicate redolence of prairie flowers.

   1903 February, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Hygeia at the Solito”, in Everybody’s Magazine, volume VIII, number 2, New York, N.Y.: John Wanamaker, →ISSN, page 173, column 2

2. countableAn evocative fragrance.

   Loola au naturel with a musky redolence which, on second thought, has something really rather fascinating about it.

   1948 August, Aldous Huxley, “The Script”, in Ape and Essence, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 82