smelling vs tasting

smelling

noun
  • The act by which something is smelled. 

verb
  • Used in adjectival compounds. 

tasting

noun
  • The taking of a small amount of food or drink into the mouth in order to taste it. 

  • A small amount of food or drink. 

How often have the words smelling and tasting occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )