This is my first experience with linen, and it has lived up to the hype. As with good bourbon or a bidet, once you experience this, you can't live any other way. :-) Yes, they're expensive, but consider that you live a third of your life in contact with bed sheets. In many aspects of life, the super rich live one way and the rest of us live another ... but I can't imagine anyone, regardless of wealth, having better sheets than I do now. My only regret is that I'm unconscious for most of my time on these sheets. This was a splurge, but one I have no regrets over.