Rosenut?

It was a sled along along!

(Whoops...misread title...)

Guitar players "have a clue." I've owned a lot of solid rosewood (backs and sides) guitars, both Indian and the now protected Brazilian, and also have a newer guitar made of rosewood-ish looking (redder) cocobolo which is both fun to say and poisonous (look it up). I have an Indian rosewood Martin 000-28 that still smells like roses as it was unused and trapped in a case by the previous owner for 5 years before I bought it. That amazing smell is fading but I like it...it's good...I once picked up and examined a solid rosewood (body and neck) Fender Telecaster belonging to Delaney Bramlett when I was a stage hand for a Delaney and Bonnie show, finding out later that it was given to him by George Harrison who used it on "Let it Be"...Harrison's estate now owns it again. This concludes my rosewood trivia comments. 

Rosewood that smells like roses? Weird 

That's where the name "rosewood" came from...what? You thought it was the thorns?

There are many species of rosewood. Rosewoods as a group have a very high specific gravity, much higher than walnut. They are tough woods with a very tight grain and make excellent veneers. Very few woods are as good in this regard. As cabinet woods they are a royal PITA. They are so hard that you can not use standard hand tools to work the stuff. You can shape rosewood with rasps like Fred Maloof who in his own immutable style made rocking chairs out of the stuff. He made one for President Regan. The point being that real rosewoods are much more durable than most other veneers so one would certainly not be doing the customer a service by faking the stuff. Oh and rosewoods got the name because a fresh cut surface smells like roses, except for cocobolo which smells like crap.  Only Zebra wood smells worse.