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yes smell definitely is a huge factor in taste. what we perceive as the taste of something is actually somewhere between 70 and 80 percent just smell according to the source, and with tea the aftertaste of something and the smell of it in your stomach is extremely important too which are also both influenced by smell.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7966593/