I love this tickle whip. You have your nice, tickling feathers (which I call sugar) and the rubber whip (spice). I think this is one of the cutest sex toys I have ever bought that I actually like. This comes in three colors: red, black, or pink. I purchased mine in pink just because it looked cute and girly.

I let my husband try it on me first, so he chose to run the feathers from my neck down, and I have to say it felt amazing being run over the nipples. He then spanked me with the whip. A few times it did hurt, but it did not leave a welt. I tried it on my husband, but he really did not care for it too much. My husband liked the feathers being run down his side, but he did not care to be whipped. He does not like being spanked. I, on the other hand, do like being spanked, so I love both sides of this.

Overall, I think this is a great, fun, bedroom addition for most people unless they love really hard whips. Since the whip part is strands of rubber, it whips hard but not nearly as hard as a leather whip. I think people will also love the fact that this does not come apart easily even with the feathers.

I did not think the package it came in was great. It was basically a piece of cardboard with the whip attached in regular plastic wrapping. I think if the package looked better it would be a great gift for many people. If packaging doesn't matter to you, it is worth it.

I store mine in a pillow case just so my animals at home don't try to eat the feathers.

I did not notice any smell when I first opened the whip.

I have not cleaned the feathers, but I have cleaned the whip. I sprayed it with toy cleaner and ran water over just the whip part and towel dried it.