The brush making an overall impression of high quality, are nice and soft and hair practically impossible. Whether you like the included cloth bag, is a matter of taste. As bad as the smell is not gone and even after one wash at 60C °. Only after washing the brushes you should make sure to present her upright to dry out under any circumstances. I did that with the smallest Kabukipinsel and the residual moisture is pulled down while standing in the wooden style, after which the painting it was a few cracks. So lie down in any case to dry! This is also no product fault, but quite normal at all brushes as I could read. If you often so does that, the brush hairs can also fail. But if you regularly cleans and lying to dry, is likely to have long what of this top product.