Andrew the comments above are right on. The smells of the cigars where concentrated because they where sealed up in a bag while shipping. The smell really isnt an indication of your humidity that I am aware of. As far as the cedar on the humi check to see if there is a change in the wood along the edge when you open the humi up. On the cheaper humis there is normally a thin veneer on the outside then some cheap wood and then a veneer of cedar on the inside. If the edge is unfinished when the box is open you should see this. On better humidors you normally see about a1/4 in piece of cedar that forms the seal on the humi. Hard to explain but if you look at waxingmoons threads you will see the seal made by the cedar on his boxes. Getting a hygrometer is good but even the digital ones are not 100%. I would not jump right into a humi first. I would get a cooler up and running so you have time to find what you would like to have. You will see that a desktop is just an ornament for many here and the majority of storage is in either a cooler or a vino (in some of the ballers cases they have awesome cabinets). The desktop is for either smokes you are smoking or singles. Just my
