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Absinth,the opaque emerald green liqueur known as the Green Fairy was the drink of favour for Bohemian poets, artists and musicians in 19th Century Europe. Its primary ingredient, an herb known as wormwood was perceived to have almost magical qualities.

To dance with The Fairy was to open the mind. Poets wrote odes to it, musicians sang to it, and lots more drank it. Toulouse Lautrec carried absinth in his hollowed cane. The most noted absintheur of all, Vincent Van Gough cut off his own ear after drinking bottles of it. The Fairy could be a diva or devil, depending on circumstances and the amount consumed.

"The first stage is like ordinary drinking, the second is when you begin to see monstrous cruel things, but if you persevere you will enter upon the third stage where you see things that you want to see, wonderful curious things." -Oscar Wilde on Absinth.

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