Expensive but worth it! NO vacuum cleaner smell. no matter how good my canister vacuum cleaner is, after a while this smell always lingers. You may actually notice this when you first start vacuuming. But not with this one, and I can't remember why I even started using canister vacuums. I switched from bags to bags many years ago and now I'm back to bags and will never go back to cans --- WHY I THOUGHT THEY ARE BETTER!