I hadn't known it was Swiss either - got it though. I have a bottle on my drinks shelf! Actually, I have most of them on my drinks shelf - even number 4 which tastes like paint stripper.
Just been reading up on it and it was illegal in the US until 2007 and was banned in about 20 other Western countries after WWI but never the UK.
Never tried it but if, as I believe, it is similar to other aniseed flavoured drinks I probably wouldn't like it. Bad memories of a Pernod episode........
Don't ask me what I think of you, I might not give the answer that you want me to.
I've had a bottle of unopened Pernod, someone gave me, in the cupboard for at least 20 years. Never really known what to do with it, I think people use to drink it with blackcurrant?
I'll have to google some cocktail recipes and see what it comes up with. I don't anyone who likes or I would have probably given it away by now.