First of all the scent is a huge bonus even before opening the box. It's amazingly fresh and not in a masking way. For reference-I've had other scented trash bags but not with the febreze fragrance, so I can tell the quality difference with these. The strength of the force flex is pretty strong against weight and liquids- not sharp objects though. One thing I noticed is the bag stretches to the 13 gallons size, in it's original unstretched form it looks smaller than 13 gallons.