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Sour · Built in glass · Historical · complexity 2/5

Sensation Cocktail

Sensation combines gin, lemon juice, bottled cherry juice, and mint with lemon peel on top.

sweet · sour · mint · red_fruit · aperitif · refreshing

Served in Cocktail glass.

Variants (2)

About Town Cocktail Book by Joe Fitchett (1925, p.22) — About Town 1925

30 percentlemon juice — Lemon Juiceacid
lemon peel — Serve with lemon peel on top.acid
3 dashesBottled cherry juice — Juice of Bottled Cherrybase
70 percentgin base
1 sprigmint — Fresh Mintother
  1. Build and serve with lemon peel on top.

Garnish: Lemon peel

This matters because it preserves a cherry-and-mint gin sour branch in a 1925 social source.

L'Art du Shaker by Dominique Migliorero (1925, p.60)

0.5 partlemon juice — Lemon juiceacid
0.5 partgin — Ginbase
2 dropGomme syrup — Gomme syrupbase
2 leafmint — Fresh mint leavesother
  1. Shake hard, strain into a cocktail glass, and serve.

See also: Clover Club Cocktail, Dream Cocktail