Errr, well, it's important information, that's for sure...
There's quite a range of conditions it could be in I suppose.
I mean, does it resemble the skin of a grizzled old pickled French walnut that's been on the back of the top shelf on your Grannies larder waiting for Great Uncle Geoffrey to return home from the Crimea (and no-one's had the heart to tell her that the bounder was shot as a conshy). Or is it a Mach 3 smooth, blemish free wundersac that your mistress could wear as a hat on Ladies Day at Ascot?
The truth will win out in the end, or at least adjacent to it.
H