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What does "Led by your scent to fairer climes at last" mean?

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Fairer climes is somewhere the weather or at least climate (ie climes) is better. Following someone's scent there has a number of meanings, in this case I'm guessing prose of 50+ years ago then it's probably an affectionate reference to a perfume. However, In modern day parlance it might indicate a 'soap dodger' - how times have changed. The final 'at last' implies a long term relationship, therefore I see a couple re-uniting after a siginificant time apart.

In England a common cause of such a seperation would be working in the 'colonies' (please don't flame). I'd say this was written by a man who was returning to fairer climes, ie away from Africa/India where fever, heat etc was quite likely to kill, following his loved one.

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Source appears to be Baudelaire fleursdumal.org/poem/120 – David Gelhar Jan 9 '11 at 20:18
Out of curiosity, what flame are you anticipating? – Chris B. Behrens Jan 11 '11 at 18:54
@Chris Be refering to half the world as the colonies, even if only tongue in cheek, it can annoy the locals who are delighted that we (the English) left and still annoyed that we were there at all. – MrTelly Jan 12 '11 at 4:41
Heh...I don't mind the U.S. being referred to as "the colonies", for example, and I'm a TEXAN. I guess it's a more sensitive matter elsewhere. – Chris B. Behrens Jan 12 '11 at 14:46

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