So this was an interesting experience for us.  We had never bought an artificial tree before.  We receive a beautiful brochure every year from Balsam Hill, and ordered a tree that had really good reviews.  We received it and spent about 3-4 hours “fluffing” it and it didn’t look anything like the photo in the catalogue.  So we sent it back.  Then we ordered this from Wayfair.  It was less expensive than the one we bought from Balsam Hill,  but looked a lot better and more realistic.  We are pretty picky and really liked this one.  (It also took a lot of time to “fluff”, but the results were significantly better.)   We plan to buy another one for one of our grown children.  We highly recommend this tree.we very