The martini is a cultural touchstone across continents. Everyone has developed out their own form of the martini, with some here in Charleston including okra, lobster tails, and shrimp on their various architectures. That thing costs $40, which seems excessive.
The perfect martini is opaque. You cannot see through this thing. The perfect martini is the color of fairly healthy seawater and it tastes about the same way. Salty. If you add anything like cream to your martini, you are not drinking a martini. You are drinking “a drink.” It’s a novelty. A martini is built on either vodka or gin, but mainly gin; vodka if you want to feel cool, but you’re not really cool.