There were two or three name brands I’ve tried that really had off-color, which was totally unacceptable and I returned them. I have been checking on this 3-4 years but all were poor in color.
Finally late last year there was one brand called n:vision I found on sale at home de-pot though, for not much more than incandescent in multi-paks. They had three different temperature colors, and one of them - soft white - is a really good match to the warmer yellow we are used to. The other two - bright white and daylight - were TOO bright white or blue white for indoors, and were just wierd.
That has been the biggest issue in my family - wife in particular would NOT allow me to use the others. These she is fine with. Other soft-whites have still been to blue.
I had one early burn-out only - but about 18 or so others have been in for 10 months so far, with hopefully another 7 yrs to go.
ALSO important - I checked the lumen rating compared to incandescents I was replacing and got brighter CFLs than the regular bulbs. The “watt” equivalency was not as accurate in practical use. Having MORE lumens was what worked. This I found was really important in making sure perceived color and brightness was good - not noticable or objectionable. I am well satisfied.
AND as a kid that ALSO played with mercury, I’ll just bag-em in a plastic bag and toss them in the trash - I am not buying what the parts per billion nazi’s are selling. BTW I am - of course - a genius, so the childhood mercury didn’t hurt me (but I didn’t drink it after all...).
IMHO ;^)