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The enthusiast audience for absinthe is largely male, and that's a shame, because the fairer sex would find just as much to like in the "green fairy." Women in 1870s and 1880s Paris drank it openly and enthusiastically. They might have enjoyed it even more if they weren't seen as charity cases or prostitutes for drinking it and could dress it up with something more than water and a little sugar. Absinthe cocktails to the rescue. Give these two drinks (featured in The Little Green Book of Absinthe) a try, and revel in your undiminished reputation:

Poison Apple Martini
1 oz. Le Tourment Vert absinthe
1 oz. sour apple schnapps
1 oz. orange juice
1 oz. sweet and sour mix
Shake well and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a cherry.

Haze
2 oz. Le Tourment Vert absinthe
1 oz. rock candy syrup
1 oz. sweet and sour mix
6 muddled blueberries or 1/2 oz. blueberry puree
1 lemon wedge
Squeeze lemon wedge and add absinthe to a mixing tin filled with ice. Shake well. Add the rock candy syrup, sweet and sour mix, and muddled blueberries, and shake again. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass and garnish with a lemon twist flag.