The Glenlivet 12 year is a simple, affordable and good whiskey. Sometimes that's all you want after a hard day at work. The nose is sweet like honey. I smell a little bit of some type of melon in there, too....perhaps honeydew. The taste is pretty straightforward, the beginning middle and end taste of honey and vanilla with just a faintest hint of baking spices on larger drinks. The finish isn't oily or long lasting but at this price point, that's fine. What an agreeable single malt to keep around. This one reminds you that its not always about the rarest or the most complex whiskies. Sometimes you just want the simple things in life.