Jerms,
It's not just you.
During CravinVapes sale in March, I ordered 6ml sample bottles of five of CV's NET blends, including Organic Vanilla Pipe. Despite the vendor's sincere good intentions---NETs, mixed-to-order juices, informative disclosure, and reasonable prices---I found all five to be uniformly undistinguished. OrgVanPipe tasted nothing like any pipe tobacco I smoked way back when, and bore no resemblance to any good NET Pipe blend e-liquid I've vaped.
Re-sampling all five CravinVapes NETs again today after a two-month steep re-confirms my initial reaction. In fairness, I don't feel that these juices are dreadful. As I wrote above, they are simply undistinguished.
I now have five different "tiers" for NET vendors. The First (top) Tier includes Ahlusion, GeJ, HHV, MOV (also House of Liquid, but only by reputation on this thread, since I haven't vaped any of their juices). Second Tier includes QuickNicJuice, Want2Vape, and VapeRite. For me, CravinVapes is at best Third Tier and maybe Fourth.
I'm afraid that the top tier NET vendors plus my own and Scarfy's home-brewed NET macerations have really spoiled me for anything less.