I knew before I bought this chest that it wasn’t a real cedar chest but I thought I could make it work by putting cedar chips in it. However I didn’t anticipate that there would be a hole purposely placed  in the back panel and that the lid would not close tightly on the rest of the chest. I had planned to store woolens in the chest but the 
chest’s construction seems to be made less to safely store woolens than to provide moths with great wool access.