Bonbons-valse is a classic example of late 19th-century French salon music, characterized by flowing, sentimental melodies. It utilizes chromatic shifts to evoke a sense of refined longing.
Work on a smooth, flexible rubato to avoid mechanical stiffness in the waltz tempo.
Comparable difficulty and character — good candidates for what to learn next.
Bonbons-valse is rated Henle level 4 of 9 — intermediate repertoire, roughly ABRSM grades 5–6. In the RCM system it corresponds to about level 6.
You should be comfortable at Henle level 4 — meaning you can already play level 3–4 pieces cleanly. Learning it one level early is possible as a stretch piece, but more than that usually leads to months of frustration.
A typical performance of Bonbons-valse lasts about 5 minutes.
Bonbons-valse is available as free public-domain sheet music on IMSLP — the score is linked directly from this page.
Pieces at a comparable difficulty and character include Waltz No. 2 by Dmitri Shostakovich, Waltz in C-sharp minor, No. 2 by Frédéric Chopin, Belle of the Ball by Leroy Anderson — see the full similar-pieces list on this page.