Looking for the perfect gift that will make you a hit at any party, make your colleagues love you, even possibly get you a date with the aloof object of your desire? Just pick up a box of Puccini Bomboni chocolates.

A visit to one of Amsterdam’s Puccini stores is the first delightful step. The stores have delectable sweets stacked in grand, symmetrical arrangements. Even if your diet forbids any indulgences, simply the smell should satisfy your sweet tooth. How’s that? Well, the chocolates are handmade in the stores.

There’s something for everyone: gin or amaretto flavored, white, dark or chocolate. You can pick what you want, and watch the chosen treats as they are neatly placed in a golden box. Bars of chocolate are also available, and they even have a fancy version of the famous Dutch hagelslag. Without exaggeration, Puccini boasts every chocolate temptation imaginable to satisfy even the most bizarre type of chocolate lover.

You can find a little taste of heaven at Staalstraat 17 or Singel 184.