While the Fire is technically well within the realm of "Android tablet" (and a mighty fine tablet, for the price), it's not quite the tried-and-true vanilla Android experience you were looking for.
The ice cream beneath was a true, eggy vanilla and was draped with a bitter chocolate sauce.
The same overkill was true of lemon-vanilla panna cotta, served with warm Scandinavian crepes and blueberry compote.
But Shalimar is also a true oriental, which means vanilla plus labdanum, and that in turn means that Guerlain faces the challenge of selling this great early 20th-century work of art in the 21st-century global marketplace.
The first impression is true green chile flavor, then the vanilla comes through — and finally it finishes with just a slight bit of tingly chile heat.
(I would like to taste more vanilla though; the same holds true for the Floating Island).
So essentially, if the report rings true, the pair are planning a relatively vanilla handset.
A lifelong collector of one-of-a-kind bikes from around the world, Maharam, of the New York textile company of the same name, recently made friends with a true expert -- Sacha White, a master builder who owns Vanilla Bicycles in Portland, Ore.
But there's an interesting player in the lineup: The SX, which brings a touch of sport to a largely plain-vanilla class, but costs thousands less than true performance-oriented compacts like the Mazda 3 s or Honda Civic Si.
This is especially true with eggnog, whose store-bought versions tend to be loaded with fake vanilla and guar gum, which gives it a less than desirable unctuousness.
