Tours location of smell left by German artist (6)
I believe the answer is:
france
'tours location' is the definition.
(Tours is a French city)
'smell left by german artist' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'left' could be 'ran' (running is a kind of leaving) and 'ran' is found in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
'of' is the link.
(Other definitions for france that I've seen before include "Anatole ---, Fr. novelist" , "State" , "Major European country" , "in E" , "Sarkozy's republic" .)