Yeah, it definitely taught me to appreciate smell! Haha! It makes all the food taste sooo much better. Last three days I notice more and more 'subtler' smells coming through again but I'm still not there. My mom told me she lost her smell for a YEAR once, also after 'a flu', and she still vividly remembers walking past a fruit stall and smelling apples... For the first time in a YEAR she noticed a smell... Whoa.
Anyway. Get better <3 I definitely have not had it as bad as you, losing the smell was the worst part of it all :D
C'mon... what was your first smell memory?? If you don't have one, walk by a fruit stall and ask for strawberries and apples. Seems to be the remedy.