THE Best Smelling Firewoods (4 Categories of Campfire Bliss) 

It's interesting how destinctive you are depicting your favorite tree flavors. You really know and love what you do. Thanks for your videos BTW my favorite is white birch flavor

Cherry, eastern red cedar, and pine for me in that order. Good videos! Keep them coming!

Love cedar and the beautiful wood colors. Also the bark is a good starter.

Great videos! Thank you Burly Beaver.

Wonderful descriptions 😋 1. Hickory 2. Oak 3. Mesquite 4. Cherry 5. Apple 6. Pear 7. Walnut 8. Pecan 9. Pine 10. Cedar

I just got into cutting firewood and im a new home/acre owner. There was this day where I found some rotted planks that turned out to be cedar, and one day i was pulling branches off a felled tree, without realizing it was entirely cedar, and i was so hyped to have a butt load of cedar to work through just cause of the smell. Definitely something that's made me like being outside more is just having the cedar aroma.

Very informative. Thanks.

Here in southern Ohio/northern Kentucky, I love hickory. It always reminds me of being at mamaw and papaws on a cold Christmas Day. They heated the whole house with a wood stove in the basement. They wouldn’t hardly have to turn the furnace on because of the stove! Hickory wood burning brings back those childhood memories!

I personally love sugar maple

One of my favorites is "ironwood" aka hornbeam. That stuff smells fantastic. I agree cherry and cedar. But to get a great non popping hot burning fire than ironwood has to be right there on top.

I love the smell of conifers (while alive and while burning). My favorite is Balsam Fir. Smells fresh and always reminds me of Christmas.

So rosemary has invaded my garden over the past couple decades. I use long dried branches of rosemary as kindling. That aroma hits really well, albeit short. I like finding ironwood when I get mixed firewood delivered. It's kinda rare in my region, but ironwood smells really good and it's super dense and long lasting. Bush honeysuckle is an invasive species and has a sweet floral scent. It also makes great kindling because the bark is flakey.

Piñon is the best for campfires but I love oak that we have here in California for sure. I call it cowboy incense. Piñon is really special though and also burns like a hardwood so it’s way better than pine overall.

Ash! It's kinda sweet, kinda dusty, hard to describe- but it's my favorite. Birch is right up there as well. Obviously, apple, cherry, and pine are in there, too. Sugar maple is another good smeller. Never had Sassafras, but I'd like to get some. I hear it smells like root beer. (not surprising- it's what root beer was originally made from, and what they are trying to imitate)

I definitely enjoy pine and cedar

My favorite is Guava for BbQing...smells great. Not really used for firewood, but it’s a great smell.

very accurate! i love cherry.

Black cherry smells the best just after it's been split and stacked it gives off a wonderful fragrance, but I've never had a fragrance from black cherry while it's burning. The only really outstanding fragrance I find is from Yellow Birch. Sometimes the hemlock can smell pretty good as well.

My favorite is Douglas fir! It smells like Christmas

Pecan- Very surgary and sweet. Great smell, but no greater taste. Cedar reminds me of cinnamon.

I'll chime in for the Pacific NW. Cherry is my fave for steak but also works for oysters and steamer clams. Salmon calls for alder. Classic campfire would be Douglas Fir with the treat in finding some alder or cedar. I moved to the Ozarks so I'm looking forward to sassafras. I have no idea what it is but something I cut into smells like pickles!! They have an evergreen around here that is Cedar x 2 when you cut into it.

Gday, I have a wood here in vic au that I have been splitting. Everytime I split it, it bursts with a sweet bubblegum smell. It's a dead ringer for hubba-bubba (child's chewing gum here) that I remember. It has a grain that zig zags as it goes up left to right at 1 cm across with intervals the same. The bark on 16 inch rounds is 1 inch thick w texture of victorian iron bark but light brown colours instead of the black/grey that is typical of iron bark. The wood is a yellow colour. I know it is an Aussie wood but I was hoping you might know what it is? It burns with just as sweet a smell.

Here in California we have alot of almond wood, that smells good as well. I do like eucalyptus although it is a very strong smell. Great video and great topic!

My favorite by a long shot is juniper, nothing else smells like it that I've tried

Why did you save crisp conifers till the end?? I'm in suspense! Haha. But seriously, I'm gonna make sure to get some hickory or cherry wood pellets next time so I can get a classic smoke smell. And I'm curious about cherry. I'm using apple wood pellets currently in my wood pellet pizza oven.

I go into an anaphylaxis reaction when i breathe cedar burning; rash when touched. Lol. You're favorite would be deadly for me.

Pecan is my favorite firewood and smoking wood

Thank you

Apple is my favorite!

another one to try is Mulberry wood it has a great smoke for meats and smell

Black Cherry by far the best. Also, Lilac can smell like lilac flowers when it burns. Mountain ash smells like spices (cinnamon and nutmeg).

Sassafras smells pretty good too. Burns fast like paper, but smells decent.

Piñon is so good.

I don't see a lot of the great fragrance coming from the mentioned trees from the Northeast us. Some of those smell nice by themselves, but burning them does not bring out all these wonderful fragrances that everyone is mentioning here. From what I can tell though, I've never seen hickory or pecan. The only one I really appreciate is yellow Birch and that one is fantastic when it's burning but has no fragrance when it's split. Unless you have some branches around that that can sometimes smell like Wintergreen if they're small branches.

I wish I understood why burning wood & leaves smells so good

Douglas fir is probably the best smelling wood in my opinion

Cedar elm smells fantastic

What's a great wood to grill steaks over?

Yellow Birch

New video idea.. the most beautiful floors... Cherry wins! Hickory a close 2nd.

What about apple wood?

Definitely Hickory...

Doug fir and larch are the best smelling

red oak?

Pecan has a menthol smell

Pinion Wood.

Sandalwood

FYI.. it’s PA-KAAN.

The worst is elm and sycamore

I thought elm was the best smelling! 😂😂

Incense cedar

Only one correction. Pecan is pronounced pee can not pee con.

What kind of oak? Because Red Oak smells awful, man.