These pillows emit a terrible, cooked duck meat & animal odor. It is very pungent, and also made my other pillows smell. I washed them, three times, with lots of soap, soaking, and oxy, backing soda, and bleach (1 at a time, not all three!). They still smelled, and worse, with the addition of a strange chemical odor. I don't know if I can return these pillows after washing them, but I can warn others not to believe other reviews that say these pillows are great. They are also very hard and crunchy--due to the 95% feathers. They don't seem to have any down at all. These are also much cheaper other places, if you choose to throw your $ away. Awful awful awful.