It is sometimes flavoured with cardamom, mastic, salep, or ambergris. Dondurma typically includes milk, sugar, salep, and mastic. The word "salep" comes from (). Dondurma typically includes the ingredients cream, whipped cream, "salep", mastic, and sugar. Other desserts are also made from salep flour, including salep pudding and dondurma. As a result, it is illegal to export true salep. The dried and ground tuber gives a fine white powder, called salep. The similarity in appearance to testes naturally accounts for "salep" being considered an aphrodisiac. Sometimes, salep is included as an ingredient. Salep was a popular beverage in the lands of the Ottoman Empire.