Herbsaint

When I bought a bottle of Muse Verte about nine years ago, the first thing I saw was the similar style to the Robette image, I guess I must defer to your laser like perception of rampaging connections to opium dens. I suppose that Berneau's other pastis; L'Artemise, with the naked women on the label, has equal connections to youngsters ready to pop 30+ bucks for an opium den type of experience. That must be why Berneau's pastis is marketed just like Crillon's swill, with numerous posters and other promotional junk to connect their pastis with a drug like high to the youngsters.

Marteau? Obsello?Good one! I assume Brooks was making fun (not online-arguing in the style of no there aren't any Chinese restaurants there, because there are Indian ones too). But in case the link goes down later, three of eight offerings are called Sirène Verte, Clandestine, and Taboo, with artwork to match. Of course this may be pure coincidence, not mystique marketing. There may be no such trend in absinthe and absinthe-like products this decade, pervading them like a miasma. Literally, for the paper overwrap label on a bottle (ca. 2001) of Muse Verte ("Le Pastis d'Autrefois" in case the point was not already hammered home) showing strange mists and vapors around an absinthe glass with slotted spoon and flat sugar cube; this may be artistic license only. The paper circular attached to the Dr. Roux Elixir bottle stressing so clearly that the herbal liquor is not an aphrodesiac though several components have the reputation; not psychoactive despite reports about some of its herbs, etc., may be purely to dispel misconceptions. As with the recent absinthe tutorials and popular articles I've read that play up assumptions from long-obsolete mystique, even while they purport to be enlightening the public beyond such things. Probably just pure chance! ← Actually if you look at the old Absinthe Robette poster, you'll see that Muse Verte pastis was just playing off the graphics of the old Absinthe Robette art work. More like copying old Art Nouveau images.

Sazerac bought Jung & Wulff's name quite awhile after the demise of Jung & Wulff, it's entirely possible that bars used Jung & Wulff's absinthe before the ban, and shortly after prohibition though it's very hard to say what market share Jung & Wulff's absinthe had back in the day. Undoubtedly Jung & Wulff's later Milky-Way and it's later Solari's incarnation Green Opal would have been used in the post ban, post prohibition era, along with Legendre Herbsaint. Btw....a Sazerac made with Vintage Herbsaint is quite nice too.

Not quite right on the date, Legendre Absinthe, the original name for Herbsaint first appeared in December of 1933, the name was changed to Herbsaint, by Marion Legendre on March 1, 1934, after the FACA "asked" Legendre & Co. to remove the word "Absinthe" from the label, following Jung & Wulff's "little dispute" with the FACA over their selling real absinthe following repeal. Legendre would later band together with Jung & Wulff, and Yochim, to form the short lived New Orleans Absinthe Manufacturers Association, but changing tastes, and the depression, soon ended the association, as well as Jung & Wulff, and Yochim.

Herbsaint as well, no? ← Yep, Herbsaint as well. ← Since around late 1998 or so...

It's very sad considering what Pernod absinthe once was as far as quality.