Vanilla is my favorite flavor for everything, even in the bedroom!
Vanilla is a flavoring derived from orchids, were you aware of that?
Oh I had no idea, but I do love vanilla icecream in bed, yes sir! How is it extracted?
well it came from very long ago! Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican people cultivated the vine of the vanilla orchid.
Oh wow, how new is the flavor? Did they have it in ancient times?
Yes they did, the flavor we know of now was brought back to the new world with chocolate in the 1520s by Hernan Cortes.
Oh yes, chocolate and vanilla, a great combo. What other flavors go good with vanilla, do you thinl?
There are a lot of flavors that go great with vanilla, in 1837 belgian botanist Charles Morren discovered a way to artificially polinate the plant and extract the flavor.
Oh so he discovered it by accident by trying to develop a way to help the plant spread artificially, yes? What's your favorite flavor to go with vanilla
plant. 
Three major species of vanilla currently are grown globally, all of which derive from a species originally found in Mesoamerica, including parts of modern-day Mexico. They are "V. planifolia" (syn. "V. fragrans"), grown on Madagascar, Réunion, and other tropical areas along the Indian Ocean; "V. tahitensis", grown in the South Pacific; and "V. pompona", found in the West Indies, Central America, and South America. The majority of the world's vanilla
or lignin.
Lignin-based artificial vanilla flavoring is alleged to have a richer flavor profile than oil-based flavoring; the difference is due to the presence of acetovanillone, a minor component in the lignin-derived product that is not found in vanillin synthesized from guaiacol.
History.
Vanilla was cultivated as a flavoring by pre-Columbian Mesoamerican people; at the time of their conquest by Hernán Cortés, the Aztecs used it as a flavoring for chocolate. Europeans became aware of both chocolate and vanilla around 1520