Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I am having a very hard time understanding all of the glowing, positive reviews on this product. I will consider them suspect at best, now, since my experience with this "Wild Vanilla Powder" has has been just the opposite. First, I swore I was ordering the 4 oz size, but I ended up with a 1 oz. $15/ oz... seriously!? Regardless, I was excited to tr it anyway, as I have been experiencing a lot of food allergies and health problems and have had to REALLY clean up my diet. My intent for this powder was to blend into my Bulletproof coffee and maybe make some sweet treats down the road a bit, once I get past this clean-up phase. Upon opening the container, I was VERY surprised that there was literally no smell. Not sweet, not sour, and certainly not vanilla. Vanilla beans are naturally aromatic, so the absence of smell was a huge disappointment. Ever the optimist, I decided to try it anyway. There is ZERO flavor to this powder, no matter how much I tried. It certainly does not have a vanilla flavor. I knew, going in, that it would not blend well in coffee, and that was ok. It did not. In fact, even when mixing well with an immersion blender, it still surfaces and separates very quickly. Had it given me even a hint of flavor, I would have made it work... but again, odorless, flavorless and a very gritty texture that does not want to play well with liquids. And lest you believe that I am just missing it, I have VERY sensitive senses. I have a nose like a bloodhound and can single out spices in foods fairly easily. I don't know if my particular bag was simply old stock or something different altogether, but it was NOT like any vanilla powder I have ever tried before.