Autumn's seasonal vegetables and fruits are intensely sweet and pair perfectly with sweets. Hotels and long-established chocolateries are releasing a variety of autumn-only sweets using ingredients that are representative of autumn flavors, such as chestnuts, potatoes, pears, and apples. Why not discover some delicious autumn flavors during Silver Week?

■Jean-Paul Hévin's Autumn-Limited Mont Blanc: A Marriage of Chestnuts and Chocolate

Jean-Paul Hévin's Mont Blanc is only available on weekends (Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, and public holidays). Available from September to November, the Mont Blanc combines almond meringue, Chantilly cream, and flavorful chestnut cream. In September, the Mont Rose lineup also includes chestnut cream with a raspberry ganache.


■PIERRE MARCOLINI's new autumn offering: a marriage of chestnuts and rum

From September to November, PIERRE MARCOLINI is selling parfaits and waffles that combine autumn's seasonal chestnuts with a variety of other ingredients. The seasonal ice cream "Marron" is a popular flavor that only appears at this time of year, so be sure to try it.


■Compare four types of Mont Blanc at the Grand Hyatt Tokyo, including Japanese chestnuts and French chestnuts

Fiorentina Pastry Boutique, a pastry boutique on the first floor of the Grand Hyatt Tokyo in Roppongi, is selling sweets and bread rolls made with pears, apples, chestnuts, and more. Among the most popular items is the "Monte Bianco (Mont Blanc)," which comes in four varieties with different colors and flavors, each made using chestnuts from different regions and prepared using different methods.


■Soft serve ice cream flavored with bread and the whiskey "Hibiki." Now on sale in limited quantities from Dominique Ansel Bakery

Soft serve ice cream from New York-based Dominique Ansel Bakery is now on sale in Japan in limited quantities. There are two flavors: one is made by transferring the mellow aroma of roasted and crushed sourdough bread, which has a unique sour taste, into milk. The other is caramel-flavored soft serve ice cream topped with a whiskey "Hibiki" jelly!


■Vivid "skulls" make an appearance! New Halloween product from a long-established, high-end chocolate shop popular with celebrities

For Halloween this year, Compartes chocolatier, a long-established chocolate shop, will be releasing for the first time its "Halloween Art Palette," which uses cookies and chocolates as canvases.