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According to Chartreuse Diffusion, the business arm of the monks’ operation, it took more than 150 years for the Carthusians to “unravel the secret of the manuscript.”

In 1840, your Carthusian brothers will develop two formulas: the more bracing, higher-alcohol, green Chartreuse, and the softer, smoother yellow version.

The famed Polish composer and his French lover, a novelist known by her male pen name, spent the winter of 1838 at this former Carthusian monastery in Valldemossa.

A harmony of lime, sweet watermelon and green Chartreuse, a high-proof liqueur made in France by the Carthusian monastic order, this bright cocktail will make you miss summer even before it’s over.

It would not be the first time the Carthusians reinvent themselves.