which wood do you think smells the best?

Depends on if you mean the smoke, or fresh cut. Smoke, cherry is hard to beat from what I burn. Fresh cut, cherry also awesome, yellow birch great, and I love fresh cut red oak smell, but lots of folks don't! Cheers!

I love the smell of honey locast while splitting it.. Dont know what it's like to burn yet. Anyone know if it's good for cooking? I love apple in the smoker!! Pat

Fresh cut or dry - Black Cherry followed by White Oak,Black Walnut (and for a different take - Eastern Red Cedar or Juniper),any of the Pines,Douglas Fir.

Smoke -Any of the Hickories,Black Cherry,Apple,Pear (its very faint I've noticed),Mesquite.

Wild cherry & apple are my favorite. Walnut has a distinct smell that I like as well. Hickory smells great too!
Ornamental pear is my least favorite to smell.
Fresh cut...can't beat cherry

Cedar for me. I like to fill my kindling tub with cedar since it sits in the house.

Got to be cherry. Hands down.

Black walnut smells pretty nice-its my first time burning it this year. I just got hickory for the first time (not ready until next year) so I'm eager to see what that smells like.

ejevans22 said:

I think birch smells the best out of all the hard woods. When I put a birch log in the stove I have to go out side and enjoy the pleasant aroma.

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willow and black locust mmm mmm lol, jk. I like sugar maple and honeylocust.

I love the smell of hickory smoke. I really love the smell of pine burning, though. That's mostly because of my associating it with skiing. If you stay at a place with a fireplace, then there's always a supply of pine to burn, that and there are usually some open fires at the bottom of the slope that, of course, burn pine.

Freshly cut Black Birch (or Sweet Birch) has an amazing wintergreen smell that is my favorite. Fresh cut Cherry is a very close second. I'm going to try putting a few little pieces of sweet birch in the steamer on top of the stove to see how it smells. As far as the smell of the smoke, it's kind of hard for me to tell because my chimney is tall and usually all I can smell is the smoke coming from next door. I do know that black locust lets off weird smell when it's burned.

I am partial to alligator juniper (cedar)...my wife really likes the smell better than the oak we have here in AZ.

Sassafras and Red Oak for me.....

Hands down, my choice is Red Alder here in the PNW, followed closely by Cedar or Apple.

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Well, standing outside, havin a smoke (which I can't do anymore) I have loved smelling a lot of my fires, but I really like Hickory.

Most of the trees mentioned don't grow here. The main firewoods here are Birch and Ash. I much prefer the smell of Ash over Birch.

Ash, cherry, hickory. No particular order.

Hickory = BBQ goodness. I get hungry when I throw hickory in the fire place.

Sub-Alpine Fir hands down.

Western Red Cedar, Douglas Fir, Engelmann Spruce, Lodgepole Pine, & Ponderosa Pine are all runners up.

Cherry is very nice but I've never burned some of the others mentioned here, like Apple or Pear...

IMO, best fresh-split has got to be White Oak rounds that have been bucked and curing for a couple of years.

Apple for me. Wish I could get more of it. Some orchard owners around me cut it and sell the wood for upwards of $200/cord. Others bulldoze the old trees into piles and burn them. Seeing a huge pile of apple trees going up in smoke makes me want to cry.

Fresh split = Cedar. I love that smell & it reminds me of making kindling when I was younger.
On the fire, I have to go with cherry. Hickory a close second. Really when I walk outside on a crisp, clear winter evening and breath in that smell from a hot, smokeless fire, it doesn't matter what's in the stove, it just smells great.