A French herbal liqueur produced by Carthusian monks using 130 plants and spices, bottled at 55% ABV. It has an intensely complex flavor combining sweet, herbal, and spicy notes with a distinctive green color.

A jewel-box stirred cocktail of gin, sweet vermouth, and green Chartreuse in equal parts — named for its trio of colors and drinking rich, herbal, and emphatically boozy.

Bijou

Harry Johnson's 1900 equal-parts trio — gin, sweet vermouth, and green Chartreuse in perfect thirds — a jewel-like (bijou = jewel) stirred drink of striking green-golden color and layered herbal complexity.

Bijou (Equal Parts)

A cognac sour rounded out with green Chartreuse's fierce herbal kick, producing a silky, boulevard-elegant drink where grape richness meets alpine-botanical sparkle.

Champs-Élysées

A bold herbal sour built on green Chartreuse — the French monks' 130-herb elixir — lifted by fresh lemon and softened by egg white foam. Intensely aromatic, vividly green, and surprisingly balanced.

Chartreuse Sour

Marcovaldo Dionysos's San Francisco creation that swizzles green Chartreuse with pineapple, lime, and falernum over crushed ice for a herb-garden-meets-tiki sipper of intense botanical depth.

Chartreuse Swizzle

A Last Word riff created by Phil Ward at Death & Co in New York in 2007, replacing the gin with rye whiskey and the lime with lemon. The switch makes the cocktail warmer and slightly sweeter, with rye's spice complementing the herbal Chartreuse.

Final Ward

Gin and green Chartreuse with lime and a touch of sweetness -- a bright, herbal-forward cocktail with Chartreuse's complex botanical backbone.

Green Park

A Barbadian-Caribbean classic — light rum with lime and a measure of green Chartreuse swizzled over crushed ice until the glass frosts, producing a vivid, herbal, daiquiri-adjacent drink of striking appearance and layered complexity.

Green Swizzle

A Prohibition-era equal-parts stunner where green Chartreuse's herbal punch, maraschino's cherry sweetness, gin's backbone, and lime's acid collide into something improbably harmonious and vividly green.

Last Word

A smoky rework of the Prohibition-era Last Word, swapping gin for mezcal so that green Chartreuse, maraschino, and lime meet campfire smoke in an herbal, balanced sour.

Mezcal Last Word

A modern cult classic created by Gregor de Gruyther combining overproof rum, green Chartreuse, fresh lime, and falernum. Intense, herbal, and dangerously drinkable despite its high alcohol content, it has become a bartender's drink of choice.

Nuclear Daiquiri

A Don the Beachcomber classic combining aged rum with Chartreuse, white cacao, pineapple, and lime for an herbal tropical depth.

Pago Pago

A Last Word riff replacing the gin with bourbon, making the equal-parts cocktail warmer, rounder, and more approachable while retaining the herbal intensity of Chartreuse and the cherry sweetness of maraschino.

Penultimate Word

A rum-based riff on the Last Word that swaps gin for white rum — the Chartreuse and maraschino retain their herbal complexity and floral sweetness while the rum brings a lighter tropical note, making for a slightly softer, more accessible take on the equal-parts format.

Rum Last Word

The Last Word rebuilt around blanco tequila — the agave's grassy, vegetal brightness plays a fascinating counterpoint to the herbal Chartreuse and sweet maraschino. A natural fit for tequila lovers who haven't yet tried the equal-parts format.

Tequila Last Word

An Irish whiskey Manhattan riff pouring sweet vermouth and green Chartreuse into the mix, yielding a herbal, spirit-forward sipper with an emerald glow.

Tipperary

A bold, herbal stirred cocktail with absinthe, sweet vermouth, and Chartreuse -- layered botanical complexity not for the faint of heart.

Green Chartreuse