In the neo-Alchemical, nerdy manner of today's modern mages, its label bears a Latin name --- or rather, the uncorrected version thereof (we tend to get as close as we can with Latin, sometimes):
Potus Agiliorum Salterimens. The drink of a quick, leaping mind.
It has an astringent taste, unpleasant only if you dislike that sort of thing --- odd herbal flavours, hard alcohol, and the like. Otherwise, it's quite palatable. (Try wormwood, you wimps.) Modern-magisterial too is the bottle, with raised glass curls on it I quite like, and no screw-threads.
Agiliorum Salterimens was one of the early potions to come out of my "lab" when I began studying Potistry and herbal medicine. It's a basic tincture, macerated for a few weeks or so and then strained. (The wonderful thing about tinctures is that they last and last and last. This is also a problem, because if you don't use potions quickly, and enjoy making more, they tend to find corners in your cabinets and breed like crazy and suddenly there are bottles
everywhere.)
While the recipe is in The Book but not etched in my head, I
can recall that gingko is a primary ingredient. Rosemary is in there as well. And so are . . . kumquats! For some reason, the Potion Muse suggested I toss these in the mix --- I suppose because the scent and taste of them did something oddly stimulating to my mind.
Objective accomplished.
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