Produced in France, it is 40% alcohol. The sugar content is 10%. Fifteen herbs are used, including fennel. It is light green in color, translucent, with a strong aniseed flavor, and milky when served with ice and water.

The wine has a strong herbal odor that is both fragrant and sweet, which is appealing and can be used as a fine culinary seasoning. It is said that in the middle of the 18th century, a French doctor named Dr. Ordinaire in Switzerland to brandy, absinthe, mint, Dutch root and aniseed, cinnamon, etc. as the material, with a kind of aroma with a good after-dinner wine, by the people's favorites, 1797, he will be the recipe for Pernod sold to another for Pernod's Frenchman, this person on their own name for the name of the wine, and then the production and to be popular in France. Popular, in 1884, the French Ministry of War had this wine as a military expedition antipyretic, but unfortunately some poisoning accidents, and thus the military ban yo function of this wine, but in the folk are fond of it.