Cognac Reign

"Cognac Reign is a grown-up gourmand, like a realistic barrel of cognac. So you have caramelized bergamot in the top note. It's like bergamot cooked down into caramel, and then real cognac absolute, which is fruity and a little green. And the oak is very vanillic in the base. It wears dry and quite powerful. Smells like if you took the F train to Versailles, at the court of Louis the Sun King."

Baroque music has been a fixture in my life since I was very young. Many a morning did I jolt awake to Royal Fireworks or Lully’s Te Deum. When we were kids, my sister & I hated it. But in college I fell hard for Classical Music. It has become a constant in the background of my life. I like to think about the wild soirees that must have gone down at the court of Louis the Sun King: Bacchanal bliss with baroque tunes that now sound quite prim & proper. We need to start having parties like that again.

You get on the subway & get off at Versailles. What would a 300-year-old cognac barrel cracked open on the F train smell like?