If your lover loves chocolates, then maybe any heart-shaped box will do, but if you have a cool $14,000 around, try the Gargantua by The Ross.
Packed in a hexagonal box of pure volcanic glass, is a collection of just six chocolate pieces. That's more than $2,333 each, if you are counting, but if you are, you won't be buying. Each piece represents a natural element, including an octahedron for air; icosahedron for water; and a dodecahedron for ether. The pieces are wrapped in gold leaf. Hurry! They only make 1,000 boxes, making it the ultimate vanity gift.
There are lots of expensive types of candy for gifts, each with a special claim to fame.
Slightly lower on the expense scale, but still pretty salty, are Fran's Salted Caramels. If your sweetie really loves caramels, buy 160 pieces for $275. You get a lovely wrapped box of caramel with milk chocolate, sprinkled with sea salt that has allegedly been smoked over oak. And not just any oak — Welsh oak. You can also get 17 pieces for a sweeter $17.
For the bonbon lover, try Dandelion Chocolate Company, where $65 buys you 21 pieces in the Classic Box of Chocolates. The big draw: You'll know where this single-origin dark chocolate comes from. You won't be associating with just any pedestrian chocolate in this box that contains flavors like passionfruit and pistacho.
For a treat that transforms your "chocolate into a powerful force," try Vosges Chocolate's Prima Materia Truffle Collection.
For $95, you get 20 truffles, shaped like little colorful planets and packaged in a round painted earthy box. In every box, you get a tasting guide — and a breathing guide — to fully appreciate flavors like Cornish Apple and Armenian Apricot. They also make a Grateful Dead collection, another powerful force.
