Yes, I had one. Mine is made of camphor wood. My father bought it for me when he was on R&R from Vietnam in China. It smells wonderful after forty years. I can't remember what all I had in it, but I still keep stuff my grandmother made, and stuff from when my kids were babies that I'm going to give them when they have their own babies. I have my mother's cedar chest that was her hope chest too.
I always called it my "hopeless" chest.