Yeah, you read the subject right. I rediscovered the other day that I love the smell of cut oak. Since I don't get much chance to work with oak here, because it's so expensive and I'm not in a profession with woodwork, it reminded why I love working with wood.

Anyway my point is which wood smell do you like the most and which do you dislike/hate the most?

Edit: Wanted to find out the negative as well.

Cutting Alder smells like popcorn

I can't say I like any particular wood smell over another but there is at least one I really don't like.....Spanish cedar. I used to work with a lot of it for exterior trim. That was when it was more reasonably priced. I've since switched to PVC trim boards (Azek). If you've ever cut Azek you know it's not a whole lot better of a smell.

Western red cedar. not spanish cedar.  Brice is right on that one, it smells and tastes bad.

I also like wormy chestnut.

FYI, I worked in a shop with a guy we used to call the "wood sniffer."  That guy spent too much time sniffing the wood he worked...Strange.

Western red cedar is nice & old pitch pine is lovely when you cut into it.  I too am a bit sick of Oak now.  To many Oak staircases 

Woodguy

while in Bermuda i was making pens from Bermuda cedar, very unique smell

I think Oak smells like crap!!   Really don't like it!
But i do like Cherry.

Poplar smells worse than oak, oak smells real bad to me.  I love the smell of American cherry.  Lacewood made my head swell and I had to take a couple of days off because of the allergic reaction to it.

Koa?

Yep, nostalgia. I get that when ever I smell pine saw dust. Reminds me of when I was much younger and my dad would be working on sanding something and I would be cutting small pieces of pine with a hand saw to make an aeroplane.

I'm building a workbench out of Ash and I love the smell when I walk into the shop.  I also like cherry.

Easy one, aromatic cedar!   Love it.   

The smell i enjoy the most must be pink beech, i guess mostly because it brings back memories of when i was about 9 or 10 and tried my hand at making wooden puppets from long beech dowels sticks. Id cut them to length with a hacksaw blade then pop them in the hand drill one at a time. I must have spent about  hours with a piece of old sander paper holding down the power on the drill and rounding the corners of each dowel my hand with the sandpaper[tongue]

Worst smell for me so far has to be brown kiaat......it burns my nostrils and eyes, and doesnt taste all that good either.

I love poking my nose inside the soundhole of my guitar.  The Rosewood is like an old Vicks Menthol nasal inhaler.  Clears my head.

I remember a room mate putting a big beam of fresh cut green Hickory in our living room over a 3 week Christmas break when we were in school.  When we returned our whole house smelled like horse urine.

The guitar is definitely not giving off a rank, rancid odor.  If you've ever toured the Martin guitar factory in Nazareth, PA or Taylor in El Cahon, CA you know the exact aroma I'm talking about as they have thousands of board feet of it dried, machined, stacked and ready to go.  The outside finish is a UV cured Polyester.  Inside is raw.

I have had guitars which spent too much time in musty basements, smelly vans and smoky bars.  They definitely fit in the rank category although we had much more fun together