Gray sweet-smelling wood: ID? (UPDATED w/photos)

[kipnflip]

Can anyone suggest the species of the gray-ish strips of wood here? One, for example, is the fifth from the close end of the piece, between the cherry and the black walnut strips. Most of the wood I have was collected here and there by my dad over the years, and most is unlabeled, so I don't know what something is unless I specifically recognize it as a species I know.

This stuff is mostly gray - somewhat unusual in comparison with other woods I've seen - with perhaps a touch of green. (It's completely dry, so isn't green because it's fresh. It's probably been sitting around for 40 years.) It smells rather sweet. Not ultra-sweet; maybe a tad musty, but mostly sweet. I have a possible idea of what it might be, based on a couple of pieces my dad once built, but won't bias the discussion by mentioning what I think it might be.

I may try to get a better, more close-up photo, but this is what I have for now.

FYI, the other species I know are in this piece are: cherry, juniper, black walnut, mesquite, and oak.

[wdwerker]

Definitely need much better pictures. Close up pictures of very finely sanded end grain is what our local expert always wants to do an I D.

http://www.hobbithouseinc.com/personal/woodpics/

[RichardA]

Could be Sassafras.

[kipnflip]

Here are three better photos of the grayish wood in question. It's hard to get the right camera exposure in my shop; the photos are perhaps a bit brighter than the real thing.

 

[1stsarge]

Where do you live? Looks to me like white oak that had been submerged for a long time. We get a lot of it here in Texas. Some of it floats and some doesn't this looks like it didn't hense the musty smell.