This new dating trend is all about taking a different approach to dating by embracing the slow and the mundane, instead of constantly seeking out excitement and a diary packed with travel and adventures. And it isn’t as boring as it may sound either.

Tina Wilson, founder of dating app Wingman, tells Stylist that vanilla dating revolves around the idea that finding love “doesn’t always have to be filled with grand gestures or extravagant experiences”.

Instead, it focuses on shared routines and the comfort of familiar surroundings, such as nights in, long walks and cooking together. “It’s a relationship based on simplicity and finding happiness in ordinary daily things,” Wilson adds.

She also sees this trend as a “middle finger to a world now played out on social media that heavily glorifies and celebrates lavishness and the extraordinary”. It serves as a reminder that sometimes the “most fulfilling and contented relationships can be found in everyday experiences, and you don’t need to prove anyone otherwise”.

Vanilla dating is the latest trend all about finding love in the mundane