Thread: Raspberry, one way or another

Trash or treasure? I was smashing an old pallet to put it in the rubbish bin, when I smelled a faint but unmistakeable raspberry smell. Strange, I thought, so I came here and searched "rasperry smelling timber" to find, of course, Raspberry Jam.
Extraction of the said timber from the rubbish bin and planing of a piece ensued. It actually looks like the pictures. The colour of the heartwood varies from pinkish brown to purplish in the different pieces.

One odd slat works out to be Karri, which confirms the WA origin. So far so good.

The problem is that the density is not 1.04. It varies from piece to piece, but they float. And after the serendipitous cut, no further smell of raspberry.

Question: Have I stumbled on unusually light (1.04 is fairly close to 1 anyway) old dry timber that has lost its characteristic smell or my investigative work is flawed? How can I tell?