The mouth organ of liqueurs.
Moreover, each liqueur corresponded, in his view, as flavor, to the sound of an instrument. Dry curaçao, for example, to the clarinet, whose song is tart and velvety; kümmel to the oboe, whose sonorous timbre has a nasal twang; crème de menthe and anisette to the flute, at once sweet and peppery, piping and soft; while, to complete the orchestra, kirsch sounds furiously on the trumpet […]
From Chapter IV, printed page 56. The ellipsis marks the continuation of the sentence. The full page is available below.
The accompanying endnote
The chapter’s ninth endnote explains the idea of synesthesia, in which one sense is described through another. It connects Des Esseintes’s tasting apparatus with Baudelaire’s poem “Correspondances”. The note gives a literary context for an invention that might otherwise seem merely eccentric.
The passage · page 56
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The note · page 61
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From the Time Warp Edition interior · printed pages 56 and 61.