Great Smelling Woods

[Nature Man]

What are your favorite smelling woods to work with, and what do they smell like? Chuck

 

[Mike1950]

Western red cedar, brings back memories of gramps, 50s and 60s the woods and a much simpiler time.

 

[Echoashtoreth]

Lignum vitae - just a nice sweet smell

And my fave (only live) Ponderosa (aka Santa Fe) Pine! VANILLA COOKIES! Have been known to go from tree to tree to get my fix on vacation.... there may even be a video but u will never see it... Theres just nothing like them....

 

[Karl_TN]

Fresh cherry. Smells like... cherry.

But I also enjoy working with woods that have little or no scent like hard maple or birch.

One of the worst smelling woods is fresh red oak. The heartwood from an old oak tree can often smells like fresh stinky mulch.

 

[David Hill]

Mesquite! Has a subtle sweet smell.

 

[Ray D]

The sweet smell of freshly cut bubinga. Domestic wood would have to be cherry.

 

[woodtickgreg]

Love the smell of Walnut. Camphor is pretty cool too! And of course the Cedars.

 

[Karl_99]

Olive Wood smells great!

 

[FranklinWorkshops]

Spanish cedar followed closely by Chinese Toon. Both have a spicy fresh fragrance that I wish could be made into an aftershave.

 

[Nature Man]

Spanish cedar followed closely by Chinese Toon. Both have a spicy fresh fragrance that I wish could be made into an aftershave.

Never heard of Chinese Toon. Do you have any in your arsenal? For that matter, do you have any Spanish Cedar? Chuck

 

[FranklinWorkshops]

May have a little Toon. I'll see what I can find. I sent samples to Paul and Mark last year since they didn't have it in their collection.

 

[DKMD]

Lignum vitae... smells like leather and vanilla.

 

[GS-76]

Port Orford Cedar. Like fine whiskey and a cigar. No better smelling wood out there in my opinion.

 

[ripjack13]

Wonder what kind of smell you'd get if you crossed a Female cat willow with an aromatic cedar.

 

[Lou Currier]

Camphor of course...for its medicinal qualities

 

[rocky1]

Fresh cherry. Smells like... cherry.

But I also enjoy working with woods that have little or no scent like hard maple or birch.

One of the worst smelling woods is fresh red oak. The heartwood from an old oak tree can often smells like fresh stinky mulch.

Have you ever turned spalted mango? Smells just like a rotten jungle floor!

 

[Mike1950]

thuya and port orford cedar- when it warms up the cedar makes whole yard smell that way...

 

[TimR]

Well, not having a good smeller can be a blessing at times. (Sheila says I don’t smell good), I hope I’m reading into that right.
So it had to be pretty strong and for me that would be the rosewoods or some sassafras.

 

[Arn213]

Most woods in Hawai’i have a great flagrant smell, but my favorite is Naieo outside to real Hawaiian sandalwood. While Naieo is not true sandalwood, the aroma is glorious that is both sweet with a woodsy-citrusy combo. I actually save the shavings and burn them on occasions during the holidays and it will permeate the room. It kind of reminds me similar to the sweeter smell in the air outside in the evening when my wife and I honeymooned in O’ahu at the Royal Hawaiian.

My other fave is rosewood from Brasil that is cross between rose-chocolate-baseball bubble gum.

 

[rocky1]

Cedar is cool, wife wants to move into my shop every time I turn a bunch of that. She filled several zip lock bags with shavings last batch I turned.

Camphor is hands down a favorite.

Pine has always been a favorite, turned a little piece of fat wood and that was so strong, that it was almost as interesting as camphor. Entire shop, which as many of you are aware, I got a pretty big shop, smelled blow you over strong of fat wood. For a couple days.