Sudain

Same situation - no smell. Glad you are bringing this to light.

Do you notice that some clouds of air have texture? For example you just walk into a room and it's the air has a different weight?

:) Those 'clouds' are smells. I feel those clouds on my skin rather than through my head. If you focus on the texture, you can start to tell them apart and then manually associate them with what other people smell.

35 years for me to figure that out.

Yup, it's a thing that we can do to help bridge the gap. People who do smell normally never think about that part because the smell comes on so strongly for them.