Floral flavoured chalky small sweets

[Jellypudmum]

I have been trying to remember the name of sweets from my childhood and to buy a certain type for my friend to cheer her up.
They were floral tasting sweets, chalky, about the size of an oval paracetamol,came in pastel colours and in a small box.
Can anyone remember their name or where I might buy them from???

[sassytheFIRST]

Parma violets.

Shudder

[BasinHaircut]

Parma violets. Taste like fairy liquid

[TheCheeseAlarm]

Floral cashous

here

A favourite of my great grandma

[MarrogfromMars]

No, I remember them - they were different colours, not just purple. But haven't seen them for about 30 years

[MarrogfromMars]

X-post. Yes, floral cachous!

[Jellypudmum]

Yes! Floral cachous!
Just been looking online though and they seem as rare as hens teeth!
Anyone know if / where I could get some from ( am guessing online)?

[cdtaylornats]

www.cybercandy.co.uk/store/Fairy-Bait-220g-Tin-5055693835434.html

Cybercandy has them

[Jellypudmum]

They're the floral gums CD but thank you for looking.
It's the chalky ones I'm searching for; I'm making them sound so appetising!!

[306235388]

Edinburgh rock?

hete

[FeelingSmurfy]

Fizzers - www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VARIOUS-RETRO-SWEETS-CHOOSE-THE-AMOUNT-PARTY-WEDDING-FAVOURS-/281383103386?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&var=&hash=item4183bd6b9a

[FeelingSmurfy]

Think Fizzers are what you are describing, they are the multicoloured parma violet type sweets anyway so hope it helps

[PerditaXDream]

In England you can sometimes get the cashous as alphabet letters in those retro sweet shops. In Scotland, you can get Oddfellows or Aromatics which are a bit bigger, and have spice flavours.

[PerditaXDream]

Ross's of Edinburgh have the Oddfellows and Aromatics here

[cdtaylornats]

I think you might be better looking in independent chemists rather than sweetshops. They seemed to have been sold as breath fresheners rather than as sweets

[gaggiagirl]

Superdrug used to sell them in the 90's

[PmT65]

Amazon have them in stock now

[thaegumathteth]

@PmT65

Amazon have them in stock now

This threads over 8 years old so I reckon OP mightve given up the search now

[PmT65]

Yeah maybe so, but….. maybe not 🤷‍♀️.

A question was asked & the answer is provided as I believe is quite normal.