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Here's something I didn't know about the harvesting of BRW.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/08/29/news/journal.php

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Yeah, one of the guys posted a link to that a couple weeks back. It would seem we are small potatoes compared with what they are doing. Makes me think twice about buying any Chanel #5 for my better half...

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Actually, I believe that "brazilian rosewood" is not related to our prized
brazilian, dalbergia nigra. There are probably at least a dozen totally
different species that are referred to, at least on occasion or in varying
locales, as "brazilian rosewood". Journalists who appear to be getting
their references from Wikipedia seem to be among the worst offenders at
confusing these species.

In many articles on the recent rosewood crackdown I saw the term
jacaranda come up quite frequently. The dalbergia nigra tree may be one
of dozens referred to by some as jacaranda in it's living state, but not all
jacarandas are dalbergia anything. The recent articles must have done
some poor half-effort research on this term, and deduced that the
"brazilian rosewood" that we talk about is commonly used for flooring.
Of course, that would be the jacaranda more often called brazilian
cherry.

Much like the "Brazilian rosewood flooring" (aka Brazilian cherry) referred
to in these other articles, I think the "Brazilian rosewood" in those
perfumes are not a dalbergia species at all.

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I just poked around online a bit, and from what I could find it looks like the
pau rosa / brazilian rosewood they refer to is aniba rosaeodora. Of course
pau rosa is another name used for a broad range of species. The wood
luthiers refer to pau rosa would be swartzia fistuloides

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Brazilian Cherry = Jatoba

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"I want to know what kind of pickups Vince Gill uses in his Tele, because if I had those, as good of a player as I am, I'm sure I could make it sound like that.
Only badly."

On the other hand, ship loads of Pernambuco were used as dye wood.

Right, Jatoba. My brain slipped on that one.

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