Has a strong odor(for my nose anyways).Had to do some light finishing on the mouth opening, gave it a good rinse, and it was good to go

the shipping date suggested, yes it did smell like bone inside i gave it a good rinse and dried it, this horn is awesome had to say it again sounding this thing off boosted moral to very high levels, so im editing my review as i ordered the XL version of this horn and its awesome its a canon very deep sounding horn not like the large but its very awesome i hope they have even larger horns