Lucid is made with a full measure of grande wormwood (artemesia absinthium) as well as other fine european herbs. Lucid was developed in france by renowned absinthe historian and distiller t. A. Breaux. In response to a request for genuine absinthe in the us market viridian spirits an entrepreneurial spirits company in the us contacted breaux and asked him to create an absinthe for the us market. Unlike absinthe substitutes lucid is crafted true to tradition with a full measure of grande wormwood. It is made purely from whole herbs and neutral spirits. Lucid contains no commercial oils essences extracts coloring agents or other non-traditional ingredients.