My friend has a piece of trunk he found in a wood and despite being just non-worked wood, it has a quite strong fruity scent similar to…sweet cherry, like it was addictioned with sugar. Personally, I find it very pleasant. I can confirm that even in Italy, where wild trees are present, this wood is quite uncommon and costly, the trunk is quite shallow, so you don’t have many material available, also, in nature, it tends to rot quickly, so you have to find a living tree (a not easy task, because they grow solitary, not in groups, like aspen trees). The colour, at least for the italian trees, is a rich reddish brown, more vibrant than the one pictured, I herd they’re particularly prized, but I don’t personally know if that’s true.