I think Latula's disability may be more serious than just losing her sense of smell? I'm not sure it's possible to suffer an "incident"/injury where the only consequence will be anosmia... Citating Aranea (about Pyropes): "8oth of course have disa8ilities which, if discovered, would slate each for culling in their respective cultures. Culling of course means something quite different on 8eforus. It means she would have 8een selected 8y a mem8er of a higher caste for adoption, and coddled excessively." Latula also a bit insecure about her anosmia and canonically takes some medication (anti-anxiety?). I think it hints that Latula actually has a more severe form of disability and is afraid to talk about it openly because she might lose her autonomy to system (fair concern).