Absinthe

Absinthe! An intoxicating blend of essential oils that have the same hypnotic allure as the famous liquor. One thing I love about working with essential oils is the technique of blending. Just like with the original Absinthe, my essential oil blend is unique to me.

Ingredients: Saponified Oils of Olive, Rice Bran, Babassu, Coconut, Palm, Palm Kernel, Hemp, Avocado & Castor, Shea & Cocoa Butters, Coconut Milk, Water, Colorant.

Essential Oil Blend: Star Anise, Litsea Cubeba, Rosemary Verbonne, Palmarosa, Dalmation Sage and Clary Sage.

"Absinthe is the aphrodisiac of the self. The green fairy who lives in the absinthe wants your soul. But you are safe with me!"

~ Count Dracula

Absinthe has always intrigued me. I suppose it is because I have always been attracted to the Bohemian culture associated with it. Absinthe was originally created in Val de Travers, Switzerland in 1792. Other countries in Europe also have a history of producing it including Austria, The Czech Republic, France and Spain.

The major ingredient in Absinthe is Wormwood. The plant is naturally rich in terpene thujone, a powerful hallucenogenic. Wormwood is purported to induce clarity of thought, enhanced creativity, inspiration and increased psychic awareness and experiences. However, long term effects are brain damage, renal failure and addiction. Personally, I would not be adverse to trying the real thing once or twice to see for myself! I have always been an advocate for all-natural and have avoided herbicides, pesticides and chemicals. Wormwood, though - well, yeah, I'd try it!

Famous Absinthe Users: Edouard Manet, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Degas, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Pablo Picasso and Ernest Hemingway.

Absinthe Quotes:

"Got tight last night on absinthe and did knife tricks. Great success shooting the knife into the piano. The woodworms are so bad and eat hell out of all furniture that you can always claim the woodworms did it."
~Ernest Hemingway

"Let me be mad...
mad with the madness
of Absinthe, the wildest, most
luxurious madness in the world."
~Marie Corelli

"After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world."
~Oscar Wilde

"Absinthe has a wonderful color, green. A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset?"
~Oscar Wilde

"The first month of marriage is the honeymoon, the second is the absinthe-moon."
~Voltaire

Come, the Wines go to the beaches,
And the waves by the millions!
See the wild Bitter
Rolling from the top of the mountains!
Let us, wise pilgrims, reach
The Absinthe with the green pillars….
~Comedy of thirst, Arthur Rimbaud