A certain Major Dubied went ahead and bought the recipe from Dr. Ordinaire and went ahead with the commercial manufacturing of the elixir. He did this with the aid of Henri-Louis Pernod, who also happened to be his son-in-law. This took place in Switzerland. That foresight of Major Dubied proved to be nothing short of visionary. Absinthe became a success mainly because of the thujone extracted out of the wormwood. Some claim it is also a powerful hallucinogen. And although there was a time that the purchase of Absinthe was illegal, it is still a favourite among aficionados until today.