I was extremely disappointed with this bag. When it arrived, it smelled horribly like animal urine. So strong, you could smell it through my whole apartment. I tried to air it out for many days, but the smell did not subside. In a desperate attempt to make the bag usable, I finally, put it through the gentle cycle of my washer. When I pulled it out, the bag was absolutely ruined. I own many cloth purses, and have been able to run them gently through my washer when they dirty, and have never had a bag disintegrate so completely on me before. And the remains of the bag still smell disgustingly like cat pee. Which makes me wonder what they do to make it smell so bad, and what are the circumstances of whatever animal that caused this smell? I am very sad, because the bag was very pretty, and I was looking forward to carrying it.