There is some coating on this "solid wood construction" that gives off a smell that is remarkably like the smell of PVC (like a new plastic shower curtain -yuck!)
The smell lingers, even after washing the desk twice and after a week in my house. 
If I had known it was made with PVC (or something like it), I never would have bought it. 
I do like the desk design, and now that my husband has spent the many, many hours constructing it, including using the glue, I guess we will have to keep it. 
Jennifer