Mine was an off color. Judging from the thumbnails, the blue is very vivid. I ordered the blue/black color scheme. When it came, the shemagh was a slate blue/black. The blue looks like more of an off-gray color than blue. Meh. I wouldn't normally care, but I kind of bought that specific color for a reason. See, I already have a shemagh in olive drab. I wear it to go skiing, airsofting, or what have you. When I wear it in public, it becomes immediately identifiable as a "terrorist scarf" Sirens start to go off and 5 seconds later I'm lying face-down with a man digging his gun into the back of my head... Ok, not really. Though I have had people refer to it as a terrorist scarf and even had one of my teachers tell me I looked like a terrorist with it. My reply was "If it was purple or blue no one would notice or care" She thought for a second and saw that it was true. I said it without thinking but I too realized what I'd said was true... Maybe if I got a shemagh in a more ridiculous color, It'd fit in better. Yes, the only difference between hipster scarf and terrorist scarf for most people is color. There is also a small patch where the strands where kinda funny and as a result of being packaged that way there were a lot of folds in that area. Other than that it's fine, no weird smells or anything of that nature.