You realize that this basically amounts to being a
sommelier? wine is made from harvested grapes, which means the grapes are dead? What about tea? if tea leaves are dried, the tea plant is dead, it no longer grows, it's not a living plant? And tea leaves smell pretty nice when dried?
Smell plays a vital role in the food industry. Since times immemorial, people have been eating dead plants, processing them, and enjoying the smell.
'Nasal sex' is nothing more than sniffing, while 'dead plants' can be dried tea leaves, tobacco, hops...

Connect the dots to the wider world out there, people!