The Scent of His Garments and the Elevation from Below

His “Teshuva-Return to Hashem” is only expressed in his crying out to Hashem from the fact that he feels so separate and removed from Hashem’s Light and revealed closeness.

This “elevation from below” to reach the Makif-encompassing Light in the manner of a Baal Teshuva, is the idea of the “scent of his garments,” i.e. an elevation from below (smell) to the encompassing level (garments), which draws down the encompassing Light from Above, as mentioned in the blessing of Yitzchok “from the dew of the Heavens etc.”