The day to cherish and spoil your loved one is here! Although there’s nothing stopping you from doing that every day, there’s just something special about commemorating your love on Valentine’s Day every year. And because Valentine’s Day is taking place just a few days after the end of the Chinese New Year season, there’s even more reason to make an unforgettable impression. Make this Valentine’s a special one for your partner by giving her a special gift that’s made to evoke love, passion, and celebration from this gift inspiration list.
AMAFFI
A name only known to the most discerning of niche perfume enthusiasts, AMAFFI creates high quality, unique fragrances from rare ingredients, made to reflect exclusivity and power. The perfect gift for the woman who understand the value of a good fragrance as an irreplaceable accessory, AMAFFI’s Glory for Women is a sophisticated, sensual scent made to complement her femininity and grace. For a lady who prefers a more floral bouquet, Amor & Psychea for Women (and its fittingly heart-shaped flacon) should be your choice instead.
Bulgari
There’s choice a plenty when it comes to Bulgari’s range of products, from the B.Zero1 rings, which can be worn as a matching his-and-hers set, or Serpenti jewellery, to the brand’s Allegra perfumes that would make any date night special. But for this year specifically, the newly released Serpenti Cuore 1968 handbag is a playful way to show your love in a gift. A heart-shaped bag, one half shaped by the leather and the other by the Serpenti gold-plated handle – commemorating two parts coming together to create a perfect whole, just like your love story.
Burberry
For the woman with a classically chic British style, a treasured piece from Burberry is sure to please. The London-based house includes several gift options from across its range of fashion, accessories, leather goods, and homeware, but the one that caught our eyes is the new Knight Arc Bag, with its clean-lines and softly structured look. The Knight Arc is a reimagining of Burberry’s Knight bag – now in mini shoulder bag form with a hardware highlight featuring the signature horse clip.
Chaumet
With French jewellery house Chaumet, love has always been a part of its founding values. And for your love story, the emblematic bee – representing resilience and the sweetness of life – can also hold as much meaning as it did for Napoleon and Joséphine. Chaumet’s Bee My Love collection takes the honeycomb and uses it as a motif that’s elegantly geometric, each hexagon made to fit together perfectly, with separate pieces able to combine in a unified shape. As a metaphor and representation for a love-filled relationship, it’s a perfect way to celebrate.
Exclusively available at the Chaumet boutique in The Exchange TRX.
Chopard
A Valentine’s Day gift guide would not be complete without including one of the most iconic heart-shaped jewellery lines in fashion history. Chopard’s Happy Hearts, and its derivative collections that features the heart in every way, have made a lasting mark, and so you’ll not go wrong with any piece from the collection. If you’re looking for a more practical piece, the Happy Hearts watch in a rose gold, Lucent steel and white leather colour way would match any outfit and turn it into an instant everyday accessory – so she can carry a reminder of your love everywhere she goes.
Diptyque
Here’s one for both you and your partner to enjoy together at home – Diptyque has released a limited-edition reinterpretation of its best-selling Baies and Roses duo set. The new design is classically romantic, the scented candles housed in red and pink lacquered glass with a heart-shaped label. The candles can be burnt separately, but they’re made to be enjoyed together, the fresh floral notes of roses blending artfully with the tangy, fruity fragrance of berries. Cute and coquettish, these candles will make a commemorative piece to adorn your living space with scent and style.
FRED
Adorn your partner with a necklace or ring (or both!) that’s befitting her stature – and the two new additions of FRED’s Pretty Woman Hypnotic collection is made to complement your pretty woman. The necklace and ring both feature the signature heart within a heart motif that is both classic and timeless. The two pieces are made with rose gold and accented by luminous mother-of-pearl and diamonds.
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Giorgio Armani
Giorgio Armani continues to excel when it comes to gifting thanks to the house’s wide range of offerings across its brands. Start your night with a breathtaking bouquet of roses from Armani/Fiori, before moving on to something bigger like the practical and classy pebble leather Shopper Bag that she can use for day and night.
Jo Malone London
With roses being a very important icon for Valentine’s Day, it makes sense that the world’s best perfumers are heading down the rosy floral route. For Jo Malone London, Valentine’s smells like Taif Rose, the brand’s limited-edition Cologne Intense fragrance featuring the namesake rose from the foothills of the Taif mountains. A rose scent that’s unlike any other, the blend is fresh with a moreish finish that can be attributed to the coffee base notes. With a scent as unique as this, each spritz in the future will remind your partner of this special Valentine’s Day.
Louis Vuitton
This Valentine’s Day, the perfect gift from Louis Vuitton comes in the form of the Nano Speedy Dating bag. The Speedy Dating takes the iconic Speedy silhouette and reshapes it into a heart, creating a special edition for this season of love that you’ll fall in love with at first sight. If your love is better expressed in the form of jewels, then the Colour Blossom BB Star Pendant makes a captivating gift too as it celebrates LV’s monogram flowers with diamonds, pink mother-of-pearl and pink gold.
M&S
Chocolates and teddy bears are a staple gift for V-Day, but why not combine them both in a sweet gift? Let the cute Spencer Bear Milk Chocolate for M&S declare your love for you, with its sweet Belgian chocolate shell, dark chocolate details, and a bright red heart in its hands. There are also several other Valentine’s chocolates, like the Lovely Lollies milk chocolate lollipops that include Valentine-themed messages with the wrapping, making it a fun gift for your partner or even Valentine’s Day gift to share and spread the love to your family and friends.
Tom Ford Beauty
Another masterful perfumery brand puts its spin on the rose fragrance, and in the case of Tom Ford, the blend must include a touch of leather. The Rose Exposed Eau de Parfum is rose with a wild side, featuring a rose-on-rose co-distillation technique that captures the potency of the Munstead Rose. The result is a fresh-as-just-picked rose accord, then blended with white pepper, pink peppercorn, orange flower, cypress, bergamot, and curcuma extract – floral contrasted by spice. All those notes lie over a base of Tom Ford’s iconic black leather with sandalwood, olibanum, and cashmeran. If you want to treat your lady love with more, get her the four-piece Rose Exposed makeup collection with eyeshadow quad, two lip colours and a lip oil tint, for a full beauty experience tinged with roses.
Venchi
No Valentine’s Day celebration would be complete without chocolates, and the high-quality, all-natural, Italian-made chocolates from Venchi would add the right touch of sweetness to your date. The Valentine’s Day collection features several gift-ready boxes featuring the BacioDiDama milk chocolates and Gianduja chocoviar made with Piedmont hazelnuts. If your Valentine prefers a variety, the assorted Heart Box would be a better fit to share. Either way, a bite of Venchi’s chocolate is a fitting sweet start, or end, to a love-filled day.
Exclusively available at Venchi Pavilion KL, The Exchange TRX, and Seibu TRX.
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