This Indian rosewood is quite purple, and very oily. The smell when planing is intoxicating.
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This Indian rosewood is quite purple, and very oily. The smell when planing is intoxicating.
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it’s a good smell or a bad one?
It is not exactly sweet and flowery like Brazilian rosewood is, similar to a perfume, but rather exotic and heavy. I think it matches the image of India very well.