sense of smell vs modality

sense of smell and modality both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sense of smell	Yes	No	No	No
modality	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, modality is a hypernym of sense of smell; that is, modality is a word with a broader meaning than sense of smell:

Other hypernyms of sense of smell include sense modality, sensory system, exteroception.

sense of smell (noun)	modality (noun)
the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents	a method of therapy that involves physical or electrical therapeutic treatment
	a particular sense
	a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility
	verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker