The range of flavours has expanded to more than 8,000 and now includes roast beef, unicorn milk and vagina mist.
A Martini must be freshly made – "You can no more keep a Martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss" – and he counsels against making them too strong: a Martini should make you believe that "at any moment we may see the unicorn.
The saola, which looks like a unicorn when viewed in profile, is a solitary medium-sized antelope with a striped face.
As in the pursuit of the unicorn, the journey ultimately becomes a quest for the essence of wildness in nature, and an encounter with beauty.
Some kits are so pointlessly expensive that it'd be more cost-effective for you to stitch your own footwear from fairydust and unicorn pubes.
Drawn from the Met's holdings and from other public and private collections, it includes manuscripts, paintings, decorative objects and "unicorn horns" (actually the tapered, spiral-patterned tusks of the narwhal).
And unicorn investors, often big hedge funds, help startups postpone their initial public offering (IPOs) and avoid demands from public investors for instant profits.Yet high valuations come at a price, says Fenwick & West, a law firm.
But doubts about such valuations are growing, even in Silicon Valley.It is easy to see why promising startups (and their backers) want to become a member of the unicorn club.
It has analysed 37 unicorn deals and found that all included terms to protect investors against losing money in particular, putting them first in line to get their money back if the company is sold.
A luxuriously painted page from an early 14th-century copy of the Persian "Book of Kings", the Shahnama, shows Iskandar (Alexander the Great) battling with a tawny unicorn and winning.
Early research was hampered by the widespread myth that the tusk came from the head of a unicorn.
