Cut Grass Martini

It is a summer's evening with the sun setting. The air is warm, a gentle breeze blowing and you are in the garden. You start to see a few fireflies glowing in the distance.

There's a scent being carried in the air- a mix of earth, melon, green, sweetness and hay.
It's comforting, familiar, and nostalgic.

In the distance, you can hear a lawn mower. You breathe in deeply, the scent of fresh cut grass filling your lungs. Is there a scent more reminiscent of summertime? 

Scent is one of our most powerful memories, and for me the smell of fresh cut grass immediately transports me back to my childhood in suburban America and the scene described above (only with the addition of a baseball field and the smack of bats hitting balls). 

Fresh cut grass is one of those incredibly complex scents, that is difficult to describe without using the word 'grass'.

But it's always reminded me of melon & sweetness & dirt. I've had it in my mind to create a drink that reminded of this wonderful aroma and I think I've just about done it.

This really is a wet martini at the heart. Two parts vodka, one part vermouth. None of that dry martini (i.e. cold vodka in a glass), this is good and wet.

We can have way too many of these in one sitting, so we like to think back to Dorothy Parker when imbibing.

“I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
after four I'm under my host.”