I'm not sure why people find this so relevant. Regardless of the sense, there must be enough discernible structure to detect whether 0 of something is there, whether 1 of something is there, or whether there are many more than 1.
Human sense of smell might top out at differentiating maybe 4 or 5 different things, dogs can probably sense a lot more, but either way it lets us set up basic counting, and that's generally all you need for most of our math.