I don't have anything to show today except for this candy I bought a week ago on Fab. I can be very irresponsible with my money and this definitely shows it...My excuse was that I wouldn't have been able to find it anywhere else for that price (everything was around $2-3 off, plus I had a $10 gift certificate). I'm a sucker for pretty (useless) things as well as strange flavors (meaning not your usual lemon/lime, grape, orange, etc. Speaking of that, why do we need three citrus flavors and a pineapple one in almost all American candy?!) My boyfriend Ryan made a joke about how I'm becoming an old lady. I told it was my ~retirement candy~ haha I can already see them sticking together into one giant clump already!
I like collages!
They are made by Maison Boissier. You can read about its history on the website. I'm going to get into the details about the candy!
The two I bought were the candy balls in the blue gift tin and the "Heavenly Pearls". I knew the latter were going to be tiny but I was still pretty surprised when I pulled them out of the box. I took a photo of the two types side-by-side for comparison. The balls were like 20% smaller than your average gumball. What convinced me to get them were all the flavors of the Pearls: "apricot, orange, cherry, strawberry, lemon, tangerine, almond, apple, blueberry, pear, peach, plum, and grapes". The texture of each pearl is like rock candy but not super hard. They are delicate and easily crushed between your fingers/ inside the box if you close it wrong. The flavor doesn't hit you for a least a few seconds until the sugar coating dissolves. Then you have about 10 seconds where you start to figure out what flavor you just got and it just bursts open, depositing its juice inside your mouth. Wow, that sounds like really bad erotica. But you get the point! It's like a Fruit Gusher but the filling for these pearls is watery and (delightfully) pungent.
The candy balls are solid like any hard candy. The flavors were poppy, rose, violet, cherry, and blueberry. I love floral flavors. My first experience with them was with Les Anis de Flavigny's rose and violet pastilles. They were sickeningly perfumey but I think that's typical. You can tell you're eating violet candy (so far that's the only one I've tried aside from poppy) with the Boissier balls but it's not overpowering and is tart like a Jolly Rancher. It's slow to dissolve so you can enjoy it for several minutes before, if you're like me, get impatient and bite it. As for poppy, I ate it by accident thinking it was cherry. I kind of deduced it when I realized it was an unfamiliar flavor. It's not very flower-y at all! I really like it and I think that once this tin is finished, I'm going to try to track down more poppy-flavored edibles.
To be completely honest, these were expensive and I had no business buying them when I should've gotten my textbooks instead. But like I said, they were on sale and difficult to find anywhere else online/in the US and I enjoyed the novelty! I'm excited to share them with my friends and family. :)
tl;dr This candy has many flavors that are not typically produced by US confectionaries and it's delicious albeit on the pricier side.
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