According to legend, we owe this elixir to "Docteur Ordinaire", a French doctor in exile in Switzerland.
In 1805, the Pernod Fils Company from Pontarlier in France began distilling the secret formula.
Absinthe was the subject of much stormy, impassioned debate, and was banned in 1915 in France.

From 1830 on, artists took to this elixir in the cafés of Paris. "Green fairy" to artists and poets seeking new pleasures, absinthe became one of the strongest symbols of its era with its enigmatic color and the ritual surrounding it. It is sublimated in the works of Verlaine, Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Oscar Wilde, Manet, Toulouse-Lautrec, and later Picasso.

Pernod is now launching a new product “Pernod aux extraits de plantes d’absinthe”. Like the product sold in the 19th century, this new spirit has an alcohol content of 68° and contains no added sugar, but with thujone content in accordance with the legislative constraints in force. Made from extracts of "roman wormwood", "wormwood" and a blend of other aromatic herbs, this drink is inspired by the old formula.