Whats your favorite smelling wood to burn?

[ilovedougfir]

A big part of burning wood for me is the smell. Maybe it’s nostalgia, or maybe it’s something baked into us after thousands of years of humans sitting around fires.

I live near Seattle, WA and mostly burn Douglas fir. I love the scent. Alder is also really pleasant—almost sweet. We don’t have much oak around here, but whenever I’m in the Midwest, that smell is hard to beat too.

I’m curious—what’s your favorite wood to burn purely for the smell?

 

[stoveliker]

I don't know. My smoke goes outside...
And my cat makes most smell bad.

In my fire pit, first Eastern Red Cedar, then pitch pine, spruce.
I never got the appeal of cherry

 

[Murray01]

Pine

 

[GG Woody]

It's not poplar or cottonwood...

 

[vatmark]

I don’t really smell anything when the stoves going. I also have no clue what i am burning, I know we have a lot of white oak and red.

 

[bigealta]

Pine, it reminds me of skiing.
Cedar too.

Locust - definitely not

I try to tell what the neighbors are burning when i walk the dogs. Usually it's smoky and i can often tell if it's oak.

 

[Woody Stover]

Black Cherry is nice, and the small amount of River Birch I've burned had a sweet smell.
But as stoveliker said, cat stoves can stink. When they get hot, they start burning the creosote that has built up inside the box from previous smolder burning.