A Connecticut woman who was arrested on charges of driving under the influence got drunk from vanilla extract, according to a police report.

Stefanie Warner-Grise, 50, was allegedly sitting with her eyes closed in the driver's seat of her car, which was stopped in an intersection in New Canaan, Connecticut, on Wednesday afternoon, police said.

"Upon speaking with Warner-Grise, officers detected an odor of vanilla coming from her breath, her speech was slurred and she was unable to answer basic questions," the police report states.

Police also allegedly found "several empty bottles of pure vanilla extract" in the car.

After she failed field sobriety tests, she was arrested but later refused a blood alcohol test, police said.

Vanilla extract is made from vanilla beans and contains no less than 35 percent alcohol by volume, per the U.S. Food and Drug Administration guidelines.

No lawyer for Warner-Grise was listed, the Associated Press reported.

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