Very pleased with the initial quality of this 100 wool rug! I purchased an 8 x 10 for our living room. The pile is very dense, it lays flat, does not slide on my LVT flooring, nor does it shed. Colors are as seen on the website. I opened the outer layer of plastic and left it in the garage for a week so the odor would dissipate a bit before bringing it in the house. A lot of the initial odor seemed to be on the plastic cover. This helped a lot, but some odor lingers.