Mine (received Feb 2017) does NOT stink.
I appreciate that others mentioned this rug stinks (perhaps the supplier had a shipment of these rugs that got damp?), however, mine did not stink one iota. I purchased the teal rug and the colors are very accurate n the website. It is technically a flatweave but I did expect the rug to be more woven/textured. It's actually very soft and smoothe, almost like velvet. Interestingly, my vacuum cleaner did not like this rug at all - it's almost like the rug is so flat that it creates such suction that the bristles stop moving. Super weird. It's a cheap vacuum cleaner (our house is mainly hardwood, so we only use it in 1 carpeted room + rugs) but it doesn't have any problem with the piled carpeting nor the much more expensive wool rugs we have nor our wood flooring.
Attaching some pictures so you can see the weave closer, but don't trust the colors in those close ups! (I'm not sure why they turned out so light.) This rug is NOT blue/steel gray as it appears in the pics, but rather the teal color On the web. The zoomed out picture I'm attaching is more accurate, perhaps even slightly darker than it really is..