the smell of wood

[canoehead]

oak has to be my favorite smell, particularly english oak, often after i rains i can (make that could as i dont currently live in england) make out the same aroma, its really distinct. which leads me back to one of my original questions, what causes it, anyone? i wondered if it was the earth it was growing in, or some symbiotic relationship between the tree and a host fungi. was thinking about french wine growers obsession with the earth being the reason behind the wines' success, being part of why each wine has the nose it has.

 

which rabinia? black locust?

 

and which walnut? i'm not getting horses. european walnut out here smells to me very earthy and leathery. yet black walnut more chocolaty.

 

cedar fantastic, ditto spruce, less keen on the maritime pine here, sour almost rancid amonia.

 

like your final remark jonathan, "which wood."

 

so here's another question, do different trees, in the same location smell differently to different people? and if so why?

 

rick

[Joy Yeomans]

some mature spruce other day smelled very pineapply like thuja. decaying ash horse wee horrible

 

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[Matthew Arnold]

Elder sat in a river for 8 months stank of rotting yeast/pig muck. It was horrible to chip and even worse to pick up. Rotting willow stinks to high heaven. We have noticed when we burn lots of ash brash its smells of potato but when we burn Willow it smells of nuts.

Edited April 19, 2013 by Matthew Arnold

[Copford sawmill sussex]

Milled some sycamore today that smelt lovely, ceded is really nice too

 

 

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[shavey]

douglas smells lovely on first and second thinning the sap sacs help waterproof your saw trousers when stacking :thumbup:

 

rowan or mountain ash stinks even worse when you burn it :thumbdown: cat's peee:thumbdown::thumbdown:

[toxicity2182]

Sometimes I have found that Elm can smell like a diseased vagina. Don't ask me how I know this.

[Rhob the Log]

Sometimes I have found that Elm can smell like a diseased vagina. Don't ask me how I know this.

 

wrongness....!

[Paul HC]

Poplar - smells of fox pee! Hate milling the stuff!

Actually - I HATE the stuff period!

[dervishcarving]

i find elm smells a bit like vomit/Parmesan cheese

[Ropechucka]

Sometimes I have found that Elm can smell like a diseased vagina. Don't ask me how I know this.

 

You're an animal!!!

 

 

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