Before adding water, this French bitter extra superior shows a bright and clear color. It expresses a fragrance with an intense boisaroma and more notes of young pine tree over a citrus background. You will taste it better adding four to six parts of ice water pouring drop by drop on a sugar cube, which will create a light green milky opalescence. Its flavors and aromas are gaining power, texture and complexity at taste. The F XS Francaise is classic extra superior absinthe liquor. Color: colorless, just a shade of green. Fragrance: double. It is orange and anise but it changes quickly to spices, cumin, and dried fish. Like a Chinese Market. Taste: concentrated. Clear on anise with a hidden hint of liquorice stick. It stays on anise and spices. Aftertaste: persistent and neat on liquorice