The nose is mild but pleasant: some vanilla creme and a medicinal note. There is a perfumey, jasmine like second moment, like an herb or a field of purple flowers, or at least a purple hand soap. Just the slightest barrel spice. First taste is buttercream and vanilla bean. It's very smooth and creamy, both in flavor and in viscosity. The creaminess of it is almost like half-and-half creamer, but better because, you know, the 40% thing. Lemon meringue pokes its head in. There is a touch of prickly cinnamon that comes through if you agitate or chew it a bit. The finish has a bitterness you'd get from vanilla extract. Some cut tobacco and just a bit of leather. Also a definite sawdust spice that takes a minute to show up, like Fat Thor summoning Mjolnir in Endgame. (Not a spoiler.) Just a little bit of metallic astringency and tannins to pucker up the joint a tad. To say it's peated is probably accurate,but also academic: there is a little cigar ash, but nothing I'm seeing indicating that more than a nominal amount of peat has arrived on the premises. That's not a complaint! This creamy Scotch doesn't need peat any more than a well-crafted Altbier needs an overdose of hops. At $50 it may be a tad overpriced but no regrets on this buy.