a bouquet of parentheses

3/4 oz Tanqueray Gin (Beefeater)
3/4 oz Bols Barrel-Aged Genever
1/2 oz Dry Vermouth (Noilly Prat)
1/2 oz Yellow Chartreuse
1/2 oz Suze
1 dash Pernod (12 drop Pernod Absinthe)

Stir with ice, strain into an old fashioned glass with a large ice cube (coupe, no ice), and garnish with a lemon twist.Two Wednesdays ago, I spotted another recipe on Kindred Cocktails that utilized the Yellow Chartreuse-Suze combination I recently enjoyed with the Revenge called A Bouquet of Parentheses. This recipe created by user Bartender Kyle circa 2012 made reference to a J.D. Salinger quote, "I privately say to you, old friend... please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of early-blooming parentheses: (((())))." I felt more in the mood to drink something up, so I eschewed the rocks glass with ice for the coupe. Here, I was greeted with an unpretentious bouquet of lemon, malty, and herbal aromas. Next, malt and honey notes on the sip flowed into malty, herbal, and licorice notes on the swallow.