Thanks everyone for taking your time to share your experience, I love this site.
I like the blind design (hey, I can even fold it down, hurray!!) and I' m itching to put it to work, so I' m declaring chemical warfare on that smell, I will fight the power, even if at the end I' m left just with the frame[8D]
Seriously, I must agree that they would perform way better with some foilage still on trees and bushes, now there are no leaves and we had first snow.