Making Vanilla is weirder than I thought

I had a girlfriend once who dried her own beans and made her own vanilla
extract. She would also keep dried beans in her dresser alongside her
wardrobe, so she would have the strongest scent of vanilla upon her
clothing. It was really pleasing, and, remembering it at the start of
the pandemic, I started to do the same with my masks throughout the mask
mandate - storing them in a plastic container with a dried vanilla
bean. It was really nice, and it made the whole thing a lot more
bearable.