Well, "plain" and "sad" are the perfect words to describe my experience with the VS version of Marquise de Livry. It doesn't really show any potential or progress neither in taste nor in aroma and it certainly lacks anything good that I may have ever said about armagnacs' character and intensity. The aroma is really spirituous, it forms a real wash-y pruno scent (and does not give anything instead), with some honey and plum sweetness. Some menthol as well, sweet creme, a distant macaron cookie resemblance, a light perfume, some flower dust (like roses or centaury). Also it is really watery and flat on a palate, inconsistent, with many crude citrus fruits (grapefruit, lemon peel), with some bitter and, again, spirituous notes. Some hot spices hints appear at times - cloves, nutmeg. The finish is straightly flattening, empty, very quick in a mouth - some oak, brown sugar, walnuts, velours grasses and a detergent (hehe). It is not "that" bad but I'm definitely not buying this one again any time soon (but who knows what happens the other day). I have already had it in a blind tasting with some other competitors (like basic yet spectacular Comte de Lauvia Fine) and it was recognizable as hell so I still doubt the point of making the tasting blind.