Violet cream chocolate pots

A fragrant, intoxicating obsession with violets overcame Victorian Britain, mirroring the tulip mania of the Dutch Golden Age. Prices soared and the delicate flowers with their ephemeral, powdery scent were used in hatbands, buttonholes, sweets and perfumes. Widely read floriographies assigned flowers with secret meanings: white violets for innocence, purple for all-consuming love.

Everyone who knows me knows the way to my heart is with a box of rose and violet creams. Unfathomably,