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If you’ve been longing for white beaches and turquoise waters beyond our shores, the wait is almost over. However, if stumping up the kind of change that gets your relaxing in a far-off archipelago is a little daunting, our friends at 1800 Tequila have come up with an ingenious solution.
Combining the best flavours and smells of the Tequila Region in Mexico including Blue Agave, lemon, verbena & sea salt, 1800 Tequila have come up with a solution in a bottle dubbed ‘Afar’.
Created alongside ‘The Powder Room’ fragrance specialist Samantha Taylor this is not your ordinary perfume but in fact is also able to be added as a spritz to your at-home cocktails for an ultimate multi-sensory experience.
Hayley Dixon, Proximo Spirits specialist said,
“The past two years have robbed us of overseas travel and with borders reopening, we were inspired to bring the essence of travel to life in a new, multi-sensorial way.”
This writer can attest that when both are combined and experienced, there was certainly a deeper level of enjoyment, if not simply though the lens of the joy of deeper immersion into flavours and smells.
Proximo Spirit’s Hayley Dixon’s ‘Afar’ Cocktail recipe
Ingredients:
40ml 1800 Silver
20ml Apricot Nectar
15ml sugar
35ml Lemon
1 x Dash Angostura Bitters
3ml Absinthe
45ml Dry Tonic
Dehydrated pineapple & a spritz of ‘Afar’ Edible Cocktial Spritz, to garnish
Method:
Build ingredients in a highball glass over ice. Top with tonic water. Garnish with dried pineapple and generously spritz with your Afar Edible Cocktail Spritz to transport you to a warm distant shore.
‘Afar’ can be experienced by visiting @1800tequila.au on Instagram and entering the competition on their page.
