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Probably because they use scent more than sight for being in tune with their own species.
Sent is just an id for dogs. They use body language with humans and other dogs. They also pay attention to threw same parts of human faces that we do. They don't do this with other dog faces.
Scent is how dogs (generally) primarily experience the world.
Because dogs don't use their faces the same way that humans do
Dogs use scent more then humans. However they still use sight and sound much morfe then they use scent.
Dogs use body language and vocalization to communicate with each other. Watch two dogs interact they look at each other and will growl, and bristle or tail wag and play bow to indicate what they want.
They look at faces on humans because that's a major component of how we communicate.
Smell is not how they communicate. It's just how they know where other animals have been.