# Gargoyle Cocktail
**URL:** https://spiritsandcocktails.community/t/gargoyle-cocktail/494
**Category:** Cocktails and mixed drinks
**Created:** [September 7, 2022, 6:57pm UTC](https://spiritsandcocktails.community/t/gargoyle-cocktail/494 "2022-09-07T18:57:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@RobertSimonson](https://spiritsandcocktails.community/u/RobertSimonson)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2022, 6:57pm UTC](https://spiritsandcocktails.community/t/gargoyle-cocktail/494/1 "2022-09-07T18:57:08Z")
In the 1934 London book “1700 Cocktails for the Man Behind the Bar,” there is a Gargoyle Cocktail No. 1 and No. 2. Does anyone know if either drink had anything to do with the private club The Gargoyle Club that thrived in Soho in the late 1920 and 1930s?
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### Author:  [@Jspector](https://spiritsandcocktails.community/u/Jspector)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2022, 11:13pm UTC](https://spiritsandcocktails.community/t/gargoyle-cocktail/494/2 "2022-09-07T23:13:48Z")
Just putting this out there, though maybe it’s a byway you don’t want to go down: The Gargoyle Society is an architectural honor society dating back to at least 1918 and still extant. I don’t know if they have/had any special drinks, Im afraid. They exist in the USA and Europe, but that’s about all I know.
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### Author:  [@Splificator](https://spiritsandcocktails.community/u/Splificator)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2022, 12:39am UTC](https://spiritsandcocktails.community/t/gargoyle-cocktail/494/3 "2022-09-08T00:39:00Z")
I think the Gargoyle Club is a good bet. The 1937 books _Approved Drinks_ and the _Café Royal Cocktail Book_ both attribute the version with equal parts vodka, gin and sweetened passion fruit juice to one G. White, and Christian name of the Club’s head bartender was George, so that seems more than possible.
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### Author:  [@Splificator](https://spiritsandcocktails.community/u/Splificator)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2022, 12:40am UTC](https://spiritsandcocktails.community/t/gargoyle-cocktail/494/4 "2022-09-08T00:40:44Z")
Here’s George, at the Gargoyle in 1934.
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### Author:  [@RobertSimonson](https://spiritsandcocktails.community/u/RobertSimonson)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2022, 1:02am UTC](https://spiritsandcocktails.community/t/gargoyle-cocktail/494/5 "2022-09-08T01:02:04Z")
Thank you! I’m going to test the drink tomorrow. Will report back.
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### Author:  [@EvanD](https://spiritsandcocktails.community/u/EvanD)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2024, 11:29pm UTC](https://spiritsandcocktails.community/t/gargoyle-cocktail/494/6 "2024-03-01T23:29:29Z")
Speaking of R. de Fleury, does anyone have a scan of that book? I believe it’s not in the public domain for another five years and it’s exceedingly rare in libraries. (I want to see that carhienor for myself 😸)
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### Author:  [@martin](https://spiritsandcocktails.community/u/martin)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2024, 12:20am UTC](https://spiritsandcocktails.community/t/gargoyle-cocktail/494/7 "2024-03-02T00:20:02Z")
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### Author:  [@EvanD](https://spiritsandcocktails.community/u/EvanD)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2026, 5:59pm UTC](https://spiritsandcocktails.community/t/gargoyle-cocktail/494/8 "2026-05-30T17:59:28Z")
To hijack the thread towards the Old Hickory, the drink appears previously in “Down the Hatch” from 1920. “Down the Hatch” is attributed to Paul of “Remo’s” in New Orleans. It exhibits several misspellings, many characteristic of oral transmission:
So my current hypothesis is that “carhienor” is _coriander_. When I get a chance I’ll experiment with parfait amour, and I’ve got some coriander bitters around here somewhere. Anyone have information about old French coriander liqueurs? Apropos of Mouquin’s, I did find [https://www.nytimes.com/1956/08/27/archives/about-new-york-french-pharmacy-flourishes-here-with-stock-of-herbs.html](https://www.nytimes.com/1956/08/27/archives/about-new-york-french-pharmacy-flourishes-here-with-stock-of-herbs.html)