Hey guys, does your box ever smell funny?

I've had cigars in it almost up to capacity for the six months prior to seasoning it the other day. It *could* be some kind of diluted ammonia smell but to me it smells just like a can of interior house paint. I'm thinking that it is coming from the cedar because when I was younger and didn't know that cedar was toxic, I sanded a piece and got sickly-nauseous with a head ache. When airing it out today with the fan, the smell filled the room and I started getting that same sickly and head-achy feeling as I experienced when younger, albeit much less intense. Maybe the seasoning brought out that (absorbed) ammonia smell from the wood, and I'm perceiving it as a paint smell? Pure ammonia is a gas and it combines easily with water, so maybe the dampening combined with something absorbed into the wood and is now releasing it. Does this sound reasonable to anyone else?
Come to think of it, I used to raise rabbits, which have a high-ammonia content to their urine. I remember whenever their old bedding got wet it just reeked of ammonia so maybe it is ammonia after all.