Boy Smells Vanilla Era: Very Boring Vanilla

Boy Smells' Vanilla Era is a very boring, very standard vanilla fragrance - sweet, sticky, spicy, balsamic, and a bit nutty. I'm almost talking myself out of my criticism, as that doesn't sound very boring, does it? I suppose the point has two folds: Firstly, that this is a common profile intrinsic to good-quality vanilla that has been celebrated many times before and, secondly, that perfumery is ...