wood to wood

[random works]

with spruce top guitars with aromatic tonewood back and sides, I always smell the back and sides tonewood.

Fabric will retain molecules of this and that ( the sofa that smells like a dog for instance). Wood has a degree of porosity. One some insignificant level, do the molecules of back and side wood move into top wood? The inside of guitars is usually not finished, so no chemical barrier to avoid.

[ChalkLitIScream]

I only smell the back and sides too. Fabric retaining the scent explains why my case smells like chocolate when opened. Or does spruce + EIR = chocolate aroma? Either wwy, I enjoy sniffing the sound hole often

[Athens]

Just a SWAG, but, Spruce, as a less dense wood, would give up it's aromatics quicker than denser woods, EIR, Hog, etc. The smell would linger longer from the denser woods and there is more of it.

Again, just thinking out loud.