Looks real! As a centerpiece on my dining room table, where I didn't want folks sitting close to it to be able to tell it was fake, it does the trick! You can tell from my photo that the vase itself looks VERY different than the one shown on site, but I honestly didn't notice until I went to write this review. If it needs to fit into a very specific weathered white birch-y vignette, you're not going to like this vase, which is much darker and almost a blue gray. But that aside, very happy with it.