Mai Tai is usually spelled as two words, sometimes hyphenated or capitalized. Most current recipes for Mai Tais based on Trader Vic's 1944 recipe include rum, lime juice, orgeat syrup, and orange liqueur (typically orange curaçao). Variants may include orange and grapefruit juices, bitters, grenadine, falernum, and so on. Various books from Victor Bergeron described using rum from Jamaica as well as from Martinique, which in modern usage is a Rhum Agricole. As noted in Smuggler's Cove from Martin Cate and Rebecca Cate, the Martinique rums used by Bergeron in the 1950s were most certainly not agricole rums. The Mai Tai became
Mai Tai (band) their second UK Top 10 hit, peaking at No. 9. Their international breakthrough translated onto broke Mai Tai's popularity in the Netherlands. In 1986 their song "Female Intuition" became a Top 40 hit across Europe, and made Top 10 in Denmark. The follow-up single, "Turn Your Love Around" from the second album, "1 Touch 2 Much", went straight into the Top 10 of the Dutch Top 40. In 1987 Mai Tai released their modestly successful third album, "Cool Is The Rule" with the singles "Bet That's What You Say" and "Fight Fire With Fire"; were much less successful. After releasing