BrooklynKnight said:That depends on where exactly IN the nose the nerve endings that recognize smell are...
When you have a clogged nose, you cant smell anything, which leads me to belive that the nerve endings which recognize smell are deeper in the nasal cavity. If they are far back enough that they are in your skull, and not in the cartilage that makes the nose, then yes, you could smell without a nose.
The nerve endings in question are actually technically extensions of the brain that dangle into the nasal cavity through the sieve-like sphenoid bone located at (roughly) the same level as the bridge of your nose, and well away from the cartilage that protrudes from the face. Which is probably one of the reasons for the often-repeated myth that it's possible to kill someone by pushing his nasal bones up into his brain...