Pink Lady (cocktail) need to mask the gin's bad taste. At the latest in the 1930s the Pink Lady started to acquire the image of a typical "female" or "girly" drink due to its name and sweet creamy flavor usually associated with a woman's taste in publications like "Esquire's" "Handbook for Hosts" (1949). It is said of the Hollywood star and sex symbol Jayne Mansfield, that she used to drink a Pink Lady before a meal. Subsequently, the cocktail fell out of favour with male cocktail critics, who were put off by its alleged "female" nature. The writer and bartender Jack Townsend speculated
Isoamyl alcohol Isoamyl alcohol Isoamyl alcohol (also known as isopentyl alcohol) is a colorless liquid with the formula (CH)CHCHCHOH. It is one of several isomers of amyl alcohol. It is an ingredient in the production of banana oil, an ester found in natre and also produced as a flavouring in industry. It is a common fusel alcohol, produced as a major by-product of ethanol fermentation. It is also an ingredient of Kovac's reagent, used for the bacterial diagnostic indole test. It is also used as an antifoaming agent in the chloroform:isomyl alcohol reagent. Isoamyl alcohol is used in a phenol–chloroform extraction mixed