An equal-parts sour on the Last Word's template, it wraps the smoke of mezcal in yellow Chartreuse's honeyed herbs and Aperol's bittersweet citrus glow, all kept taut by a sharp edge of fresh lime. Served ice-cold and up, it lands somewhere between bracing and beguiling — sweet, bitter, sour and smoky in turn, with none of the four parts drowning out the agave.
Shaken · Coupe · Up
add
Combine equal parts mezcal, yellow Chartreuse, Aperol, and fresh lime juice in a shaker.
shake
Add ice and shake well until thoroughly chilled.
strain
Double-strain into a chilled coupe.
Joaquín Simó devised the drink in 2011 while tending bar at Death & Co in New York, conceiving it as a smoky relation of both the Last Word and the Paper Plane. He borrowed the name from a line in Tricky's song "Tricky Kid": "everybody wants to be naked and famous." Nine years on, the IBA added it to its official list, filing it among the New Era Drinks.