Anxiously awaited the delivery of my pillows, I had slept like a baby for years on a latex foam pillow when I was younger but hadn't been able to afford another one for a long while. Now I could afford it, and I was so excited. The pillows arrived, my heart sank. The pillows were smaller than I expected (got queen but it wasn't quite as big as normal queen) and they stunk SO BAD. I laid my head on one to try it out and even though it smelled so horrible, I just kept laying there, it was so comfortable, I almost fell asleep right there. So I decided to air it out and sleep on it a few nights before I decided to return it or not. After about 40 hours, the smell was gone. I slept on it for two nights and was hooked. Really so perfectly comfortable, just as I remembered about my favorite old pillow of all time. Its soft, but with just enough firmness/support to hold your head without feeling like it was pressing on you. They use the the word 'bouyant' in the description and that is the perfect word to describe the feeling of your head on this pillow. Just floating on the softest air....the small size difference didn't turn out to be noticeable and I am back to sleeping like a baby on the perfect pillow again.