Gift Ideas This Valentine's Day

There is nothing wrong with being a hopeless romantic or a hopeful one for that matter. We trawled through the many gift ideas that we have received to bring you a few fun ideas that we hope will deliver you happily into Cupid’s cherubic arms:

Smelly Gifts

Set the mood at home with a smell-good gift. Our favourite scent store Flaming Queen Home has moved to the Mandarin Gallery (#02-32). Pick up Candle Queen Dayna Decker’s new Bath and Body range, all natural, eco-friendly or AQA’s scented candles, diffusers, home fragrance sprays and refills. Pronounced “Ah-Kwa” (don’t laugh), this new Italian brand offers home fragrances comparable in quality to personal perfumes. The fragrances are produced in Grasse, the perfume capital of France, but formulated and packaged with the feel for 'La Dolce Vita' as only the Italians know how. There is also the LAFCO House and Home candle collection which has been designed to complement the ambience and décor of each room in your home. The candles are made of clean-burning soy-based wax with a 100% natural cotton wick. Each candle is housed in a hand-blown art glass vessel, with over 90 hours of burn time.

Geek Gifts

Do something soppy and sweet. Print out all your favourite pictures together and make it into a collage. Epson has launched its latest mini photo printer – the Epson PictureMate™ PM310 at S$299 which offers photo playback with its large, seven-inch digital photo frame and excellent photo printing with its compact photo inkjet printer. Digital photos from different cameras can be displayed and printed wirelessly. It has a tiltable screen allows users to preview and edit images before printing and also serves as a desktop digital photo frame that displays photographs with extreme clarity and brilliance. There are a variety of pre-installed Disney photoframes, and it comes with a remote control that allows users to navigate wirelessly to showcase their images in a series of animated photo slideshows. See: http://www.epson.com.sg

Edible Gifts

Well, this one is not edible or sugar coated but the effect is the same, totally delicious. Poh Heng launches a patisserie tray of Praline and Truffle rings from their Chic Indulgence line in 18K yellow, rose and white gold. Like rich and lavish truffles with smooth, silky and creamy ganache fillings, the sensuality of these rings with their smooth polished surfaces make them irresistible. Available in three different styles the Praline rings start at $1000 onwards. The Truffle rings offer a more lustruous and intense flavour in rose and white gold with beautifully grooved details starting at S$1200. See: www.pohheng.com.sg

Thoughtful Gifts

Between the opposite sex, is there ever such a thing as staying “just friends”? Well you can always gift one or several of the Tod’s vibrant “My Colours” bracelets and see what happens next! At HK$1600 each, it definitely says you want to be more than friends!

Me Gifts

What the heck? You are a big girl just get a gift for you! Something pretty for your wrist to firmly reaffirm that “I Love Me”! Just the thing to say it is the Goldheart Lovelle® whitegold bracelet with round brilliant cut diamonds, starting at S$288.

- Elaine