Featured What is this??? Amber or something else... Please help ID

Any, thank you for your support to my efforts! I really want to know and as it behaves like amber but I cannot find online anything like this, it drives me crazy. If it were amber, it would have been some trace of it, would't it?!

I did the rubbing with one of the beads and with one of my raw amber chips, and they smell identical, I cannot say if it is pine needle (pine needles have much stronger smell, IMO) but definitely something pleasant although subtle.

Well, what I did last time was to chop off a nugget of the necklace I was testing, and burn it, and see how it burns and what smell it emits. It burnt with high flame and smelled very strong of pines. I first tried the needle on the nugget but could not smell anything and thus decided to burn. Don't scold me too much

 

Tried to upload the comparative test of the two strings (the "thing" and raw amber) but something happened. Post it again

 

You enjoy the process and want certainty in an almost scientific way, I get that. You want to get to the bottom of things, test, test, and test again, in every way possible. It is who you are, which is why you are the only person who is allowed to do that.

Looks good to me.
It looks different from any amber I've seen, but it passes all the tests, so amber it is.

 

Thank you! You got to know me indeed!

 

Pecans! Lol. Very different. I’ve never seen it either