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gus_saltmarshin Woods, Mosses & Roots · Auckland ·

Question

Boat shed cedar: the same tree as perfume?

Small brown western red cedar cones at the end of a scaly green spray

We plane a lot of cedar in the boat shed and it smells sweet and sharp, nothing like pencils. Is the cedar in perfume even the same tree?

Cedarwood

5 comments

hana.neroli

Often not. The cedarwood page says most cedarwood oil is distilled from junipers and cypresses, and only small amounts from true cedars like the Atlas cedar.

gus_saltmarsh

hana.neroli wrote:

most cedarwood oil is distilled from junipers and cypresses

Ha. So half the cedar I know might not be cedar either.

wes.cedar

My cedar chest is eastern red cedar, which the same page says is a juniper. Moths stay away from it, that part's true.

ambrose_leather

We kept cedar shoe trees in the samples room, would have been that same juniper I reckon.

hana.neroli

Hinoki is the wood I grew up with, from my mother's bath. To me it sits right next to cedar.