I recently ordered shrink tubing from China, because that is very expensive in Germany. That which is then arrived with me, had to be thrown away again directly because the smell a) you could not stand - and b) from all the reports on television long knows that you have to trust his nose with cheap plasticisers, the highly carcinogenic are.
The bag anyway, is miles away from even close to smell as a cheaper plasticizers. It smells just by neoprene, the one mags, the other is not, but an absolutely bearable smell, they must not use it as a pillow, finally.
Conclusion: 4 stars for the bag because:
PRO:
+ Good workmanship
+ Pleasant feel
+ Beautiful appearance
CONTRAINDICATIONS:
A star deduction is available for the "size": The bag is for the (current) average notebook with 15.6 inches simple still too high. They could be applied much more closely, especially in view of the quite stretchy material. For a "thick" -Gamer notebook bag may fit, but who needs at such a "desktop replacement" because even a pocket? Especially for people who are looking for a possible Skinny 15.6 inch notebook bag for transporting your notebook and accordingly have "streamlined" notebook, the bag is rather easy too big.
Summary:
Very good price / performance ratio, easy to pocket size, smell absolutely fine (definitely not a cheap softener).
PS: Unfortunately, Amazon puts the entire reviews for a "similar product" simply connected. There is probably the case for 5 years, where she was still quite different and may have also smelled strongly ... the "outdated" Reviews are easily integrated into the new product. A very large shortcoming ...
In this context, for example, I once bought a monitor from Samsung, where just the 17,19,21,23,24 inch versions were summarized to give the monitors not only in sizes, but also in the quality of the displays and partly have differed in the ports ... (HDMI, DVI, ...) - anyway Amazon has reviews simply placed together, which of course is complete nonsense ... -> I suspect in this case is exactly the same thing happens .. ,