LFV Maison d’Absinthe · Paris

Établie à Montmartre · 1897 / Reimagined nightly

Édition du salon № 40

La Fée
Verte

The hour between daylight and desire, poured one silver drop at a time.

Begin the ceremony
L’heure verte
Art nouveau poster muse holding a green glass of absinthe amid curling botanical vines
La Muse d’Artemisia Original salon portrait · GPT Image 2 via Higgsfield

I · The house

A little beautiful trouble in every glass.

We keep the green hour as it was meant to be kept: slowly. Under a pressed-tin ceiling, spoons gleam, fountains murmur, and wormwood gives up its wild, alpine perfume.

Our cellar holds 63 small-batch absinthes from Pontarlier to Val-de-Travers—each served at its proper dilution, never hurried, never set aflame.

63
labels in the cellar
4:1
house dilution
68%
our boldest pour
“Absinthe has a wonderful color, green. A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world.”— Oscar Wilde, house legend

II · The louche

Water teaches
the spirit to dream.

Ice water loosens the oils of anise and fennel. The jewel-green spirit turns opaline, releasing its perfume in a pale, slow cloud.

  1. 01
    Measure30 ml beneath the silver spoon
  2. 02
    BalanceOne demi-sucre, if the spirit asks
  3. 03
    DripThree to five parts glacial water
  4. 04
    ListenThe louche arrives before the first sip

Never flame the spirit. Fire burns the perfume before it reaches you.

The absinthe louche ritual A glass carafe releases droplets over a sugar cube and perforated spoon into a glass, turning the green absinthe cloudy.

The clouding point Watch for the opal bloom at 1:3

III · La carte

Choose your
green hour.

Every measure includes fountain service, house-made sugar lozenges, and the counsel of an absintheur. Prices per 30 ml.

01

Émeraude No. 7

Pontarlier · 64% · grande wormwood, hyssop, lemon balm

Absintheur’s first pour
18
02

La Dent du Chat

Savoie · 58% · alpine fennel, genepi, green anise

16
03

Clandestine Bleue

Couvet · 53% · crystal blanche, coriander, angelica

17
04

Les Revenantes

House reserve · 68% · six botanicals, rested 14 months

Only 19 measures remain
24
05

Jardin Après Minuit

Zero-proof · verjus, wormwood hydrosol, tarragon

12

Ask for the Voltaire Flight — three half measures selected by temperament · 32

IV · The trinity

Three herbs.
One apparition.

Before the spirit is green, it is a garden: bitter, sweet, resinous, alive. Hover—or tap—to open the herbarium.

Artemisia absinthium

Grande Wormwood

The lucid bitterness. Silver leaves gathered before noon.

Pimpinella anisum

Green Anise

The pearled louche. Warm sweetness and a long perfume.

Foeniculum vulgare

Florence Fennel

The velvet bridge. Pollen, hay, and a quiet mineral finish.

V · The salon

Come as you are.
Leave a little stranger.

Hours of enchantment

Wednesday — Thursday
17:00–00:30
Friday — Saturday
16:00–02:00
Sunday
16:00–23:00
Monday — Tuesday
Dreaming

40, rue des Martyrs · Paris IXe
Metro: Pigalle / Saint-Georges

House courtesies

  1. INo flames touch the glass.
  2. IIThe fountain sets the pace.
  3. IIIPoets may settle debts in verse, once.
  4. IVLast louche begins 30 minutes before close.

A table beneath the golden poppies

Meet us at
the green hour.

Reservations open fourteen evenings ahead. Walk-ins are kept for curious souls at the zinc bar.