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Oct 5Liked by Luca Turin 🇮🇹🇪🇺

wonderful!

My gloss on it from last year:

Green Demon

1 oz gin

1 oz green Chartreuse

Juice of 1 lime

1/2 oz simple syrup

Champagne

Mint sprig

Mix ingredients in shaker, top with mint.

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Aha! Fizz!

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Oct 6Liked by Luca Turin 🇮🇹🇪🇺

Looks and sounds wonderful. Normally I'd rush out and buy the ingredients for a test run, but I've decided to bug out of Tampa Bay before hurricane Marvin arrives. Who names a hurricane Marvin? Hurricanes don't wear bow ties.

Yeah, cocktails have great names. As a teenager the popular one was called a Harvey Wallbanger, everyone had that ridiculous 2-foot tall bottle of Galiano that was too big for the shelf. I wonder if there are more cocktails or more perfumes in the world?

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Stay safe! Definitely more perfumes…

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Oct 6Liked by Luca Turin 🇮🇹🇪🇺

If you liked the Last Word, you have to try a Naked and Famous. It's a complex, smoky fruit punch flavored riff on the Last Word (and Paper Plane). The ingredients are mezcal, yellow Chartreuse, Aperol and lime juice. Like any good fragrance, it feels like an old (or future!) memory/experience that you just can't place.

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Thank you! Next on my list. I wish perfume names were as good as cocktail ones.

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Oct 5Liked by Luca Turin 🇮🇹🇪🇺

Excellent!

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Oct 5Liked by Luca Turin 🇮🇹🇪🇺

It’s from my hometown, Detroit, and it’s my favorite cocktail. Sazerac is a close second.

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Looking up Sazerac…

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Oct 5Liked by Luca Turin 🇮🇹🇪🇺

There’s a bar near me in Melbourne that specialises in fragrance-matched cocktails.

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Name?

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Oct 5Liked by Luca Turin 🇮🇹🇪🇺

It’s Pawn and Co (I think the site used to be a pawn shop) https://www.pawnandco.com.au/melbourne/cocktailbar

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Thank you!

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Oct 5Liked by Luca Turin 🇮🇹🇪🇺

Romeo Gigli per Uomo was my signature fragrance for several years in the early '90s and I feel like I could absolutely taste this description based on my memories of that exquisite perfume. Thank you for that!

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Oct 5Liked by Luca Turin 🇮🇹🇪🇺

I recently made myself a Last Word with St. Germain in place of Moraschino. Turned out nicely.

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Interesting, will try!

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Oct 5Liked by Luca Turin 🇮🇹🇪🇺

Haymans gin 👍

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Oct 5Liked by Luca Turin 🇮🇹🇪🇺

haha, nice clickbait title

(cheers btw)

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Oct 5Liked by Luca Turin 🇮🇹🇪🇺

Sounds wonderful! My husband recently brought me a bottle of Maraschino liqueur from a trip to Croatia, ostensibly the country of its origin. I use it mostly to make an Aviation, but The Last Word seems great.

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lethal stuff :-)

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Where did you drink cocktails in Boston?

(I almost don't want to know, so that I can go on imagining that we were at the same bars that don't exist now.)

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