Learn English – Single word for “faraway places”

Redolent would be useful in this case.

Its origins are in a word simply meaning to give an odor, and it now is used most commonly to describe an evocative smell, and often one that triggers nostalgia.

Modern usage requires it to be attributed to something, either an item the smell reminds you of ("redolent of ripe cherries") or more figuratively of a memory :

“[T]he very color of the air in the place I was born was different, the smell of the earth was special, redolent with memories of my parents.” -Soseki Natsume

It is generally used in a more positive, nostalgic sense but is not required to be.

In one word "independent", in two "independent minded".