As featured in 2011 issue of Oprah Magazine & Oprah.com for Decadent Valentine's Day Chocolates.

Inside our 16 piece Sweet Coquette Collection a dossier of aphrodisiac truffles and folklore await. For centuries, anxious suitors, emperors and queens have sipped and swallowed many substances in the hopes of wooing a reluctant lover or arousing desire. Aphrodisiacs are expected to do the trick - from oysters to chillies to Mamajuana - the hope is to make romantic endeavors more attainable and pleasurable. A memorable evening surely awaits once you slip off the bow.

Sweet Coquette Collection parfums include:

Absinthe (2): Chinese star anise + fennel + Absinthe + 65% dark chocolate + cocoa powder

Bronte (2): Sicilian pistachio paste + rose water + 45% deep milk chocolate

Edith (2): Piper Heidsieck Rose Sauvage Champagne + crushed rosebud tea + 65% dark chocolate

Kumamoto (2): pearl dust + Kumamoto oyster infused cream + white chocolate

Mamajuana (2): craft spirit infused with rum and secret spices + 65% dark chocolate + chamomile

Oaxaca (2): Mexican guajillo & pasilla chillies + 65% dark chocolate + organic pumpkin seeds

Red Fire (2): ancho chillies + Ceylon cinnamon + 65% Venezuelan dark chocolate

Xocatyl (2): Mexican vanilla bean + 41% deep milk chocolate

Net weight: 6.4 oz
Consume within 10 days

SKU: TC-APH-016

The name "sweet coquette" comes from a Bonnie Raitt song, The Road's My Middle Name:

"I told you once the day we met

I wouldn't be your queen.

Your little darlin', sweet coquette

Just what my routine

You've been around enough to know

There's really no one else

When I hear that siren call, baby

I just can't help myself"

If an aphrodisiac has been used repeatedly for hundreds of years, does that mean it is proven to work? Mamajuana is a mixture of roots and herbs has been used for over 800 years originally by the Taino Indians who inhabited the Caribbean and the region known as Hispañola in the times prior to Christopher Columbus.

Today, the blend of herbs are regularly used in the Dominican Republic and are fermented, cured and then mixed with rum, vermouth, honey, molasses and other ingredients to produce a potent liqueur. Mamajuana is also known as the "Baby Maker" and "El Para Palo", which means Lift the Stick!

You can make your own by gathering the following ingredients:

Mamajuana Herbs – You can buy your magical herbs here. (www.mamajuanacorp.com/buy.html)

Molasses – I like Plantation Blackstrap Unsulphered (at Wholefoods)

Honey – Try Raw Manuka honey for extra health benefits. (at Wholefoods)

Red Vermouth – I used Noilly Pratt Red

Rum – I like Cuban Matusalem Rum

Instructions for making Mamajuana will arrive with your packet of herbs!