Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
avec ses relents de
English translation:
so redolent of
French term
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avec ses relents de
"Toi, tu as fui l'Allemagne, l'école des Beaux Arts trop rigide et le service militaire **avec ses relents de** tragédie et de bêtises."
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Proposed translations
so redolent of
with its assortment of tragedy and stupidity
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with it's connotations of
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With its lingering odour of ...
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Helen Shiner
: I like 'whiff' though less so 'lingering odour' only as a matter of brevity.
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Yvonne Gallagher
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Native in: English (Variants: British, Scottish, Irish, Singaporean, UK, South African) 
Works in: French to English, Italian to English, Romanian to English, and 2 more.
stench
This is one example, albeit from the lyrics of a song:
"I see a shape in the crowd
I turn to know where you are
But all around me's the stench of high density housing"
http://www.metrolyrics.com/just-bcoz-lyrics-machine-gun-fell...
"The stench of politics"
"The stench of hypocrisy emanates from the S.C. House leadership's rationale for refusing to raise our state's lowest-in-the-nation cigarette tax."
http://witteringwitney.blogspot.com/2011/03/stench-of-politics.html
http://palmettotaxblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/cig-tax-politics-stench-of-hypocrisy.html
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Andrew Bramhall
: Quite a strong word though, implying displeasure, disgust, bad memories.//Fair point.//I got your drift all along- was just making a general comment that's all.
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Well tragedies in the military (presumably suggesting deaths at war) is hardly a pleasurable, good memory is it!
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Just Opera
: Reek or stench is OK IMO. French = Mauvaise odeur qui persiste.
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Thank you. Nice to know somebody gets my drift.
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Joshua Pepper
: If I could choose half-way between agree and neutral, I would. I do think "stench" is slightly too strong, but perhaps this is a "best-fit" situation rather than "perfect fit"?
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Helen Shiner
: or Oliver's 'whiff'
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Yvonne Gallagher
: possibly too strong, but asker has more context
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mimi 254
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undertone
Otherwise and just to get away from the theme of smell, how about undertone?
Again, though, I think you need look no further than your own translation!
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