The way to your better half’s heart this Valentine’s Day comes in 23 different and equally exciting options
Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, and nothing says love like a thoughtful gift. Or multiple gifts. From indulgent hampers by your favourite food brands, to a bottle of exquisite liquor, or even some miscellaneous treats – there’s something for everyone in this gifting guide!
Food
Waterlilies for My Valentine by Ether
Are you the kind of person who falls in love with paintings? With their Valentine’s special collection, Ether’s got what art nerds and chocolate lovers want nailed. Inspired by Claude Monet’s painting, Waterlilies for my Valentine maps a mellow route through the exploration of flavours such as winterberry, Damascus rose, pistachio, lavender bud and first flush Muscatel Darjeeling tea.
The tablets come in delightful combinations of smooth 70% Peruvian Dark Chocolate, Darjeeling Black Tea and Rose Lokum among other equally exciting flavours. They have cakes on offer as well, specifically the Rose Dominicana. Created in an intense red, made of Dominican chocolate, caramel and sea salt, this is the perfect way to celebrate your love. There’s also the Macaron Rouge with Ghanaian chocolate and salted pistachios for an extra serving of sweet!
Nova Nova
This Valentine’s Day, make precious moments sweeter with the sweetest gift of all, chocolate! Nova Nova has a fun, unique and delicious range of heart shaped treats on offer. Filled with freshly baked delicacies straight out of the kitchen, it’s a perfect box of happiness to surprise your loved ones. Their gift boxes also include a pretty flower along with a greeting card for an extra special touch.
Love Inside-Out fortune cookies by White Light Food
A place that offers everything lip smacking, they’ve delivered this Valentine’s season as well! The Love Inside-Out fortune cookies are 100% vegetarian, gelatin free, yeast free, no preservatives, and child friendly. What makes it even more special are the love filled messages inside your cookies, that can be customized to boot.
Moreover, they’ve got love bags containing vegan edamame dim sums, a DIY fondue kit loaded with cheese, bread, condiments, fondue pot, and skewers. And for the kind of love that celebrates the parent-child relationship, they also have introduced a new parent-child breakfast in bed kit for a comfy, wholesome morning.
Sweetish House Mafia
A beautifully curated hamper, Swedish House Mafia brings to you a box filled with heart shaped cookies, red velvet cookies, brownies, cake, all put together to pamper you with utmost love. Nothing says Valentine’s Day to a partner, or to yourself, like a box of delicious gooey cookies.
Cou Cou
Headed by Chef Pratik and Chef Pierre Storti, Cou Cou’s Valentine spread is a treat for the eyes just as much as your stomach. The collection features Ispahan, which is a rose, raspberry and lychee flavoured cake embellished with a chocolate rose. There’s also the Heart of Gold – a chocolate mousse encased in a chocolate shell, finished with red and gold accents, making this an ideal season’s fit. The assortment also packs with it a Vanilla & Raspberry Croquembouche which are essentially mini choux puffs filled with vanilla and raspberry cream and the Lime & Blueberry Pavlova (Gluten Free) – Meringue shells with lime curd and fresh blueberries.
Monèr Bistro & Dessert Bar
Monèr, India’s First only Dessert Bar and Bistro is offering desserts perfect for your special someone, guaranteed to make them swoon! The sweet offerings include the Jardin Du Rose, prepared using rose, raspberry, pistachio air cake, chocolate soil, rose caviar, and edible flowers.
There’s also a special Valentine’s Luxury Petit gift box which includes Chef Freny’s latest and finest dessert collection. The gift box features a Rose made of Rose & Raspberry mousse, Chocolate mousse, Berry coulis, the Caramel Apple made of vanilla bean mousse, Apple compote, and Cinnamon streusel with a Valentine’s twist to it. Next in the box is a dessert called the Strawberry Macaron sandwich, which is every bit as indulgent as it sounds. Get ordering!
Brownsalt Bakery
Brownsalt Bakery has created a special limited edition menu for you to indulge in this season of love. It’s strawberry season, and they’ve ensured there’s more than one way to enjoy it. From cakes to tart to cheesecake, the menu comprises a range of indulgent desserts filled with the goodness of strawberries. The menu features Frasier, which is a cream cheese & strawberry entremet, filled with layers of vanilla bean cream cheese mousse, fresh organic strawberry confit, and moist vanilla cake for a divine gourmet indulgence giving you the best of both worlds. This is just the tip of a decadent iceberg, feel free to explore!
Nutmeg – The Gourmet Shop, ITC Hotels Bengaluru
Revel in the joy of relationships and renewed hope with ITC Hotels. Enjoy the exquisite taste of Valentine’s Day Collection by Nutmeg – The Gourmet Shop with a delightful assortment of diverse hampers. Celebrate your loved ones with their special collection of caringly selected and mindfully prepared confections. These include but aren’t limited to macarons, handmade truffles, rich chocolate gateau, seasonal strawberries and much more! The sky’s the limit here.
Marriott Bonvoy
Marriott International is giving you the opportunity to spice up a weekday Valentine’s by creating a romantic ambience at home! Choose from either one of the 4 richly luxurious all-encompassing DIY kits. For those with a sweet tooth, here’s the ‘Seven Shades of Red’ menu that you can opt for and dive straight into as they are ready and fabulous to eat. Consisting of patisserie entremets, this artisanal aphrodisiac menu will delicately balance and portray lux craftsmanship thus elevating the senses.
True Delights
True Delights is here with their box of love to make this romantic day even more special! From cheese, dips, puff pastry, to chocolate, there’s all this and more in the True Delights ‘Way To Your Heart’ Hamper. With the perfect cheese pull and crumbling texture, the Mediterranean Pizza Puff is the best savoury dish to start this romantic day with. The hamper also has a Baked Brie with Truffle and a Mushrooms and Baked Brie with Fig, Rosemary & Honey. A jar of the Red Pepper Dip will surely feel like less once you try it out with the crispy crackers. Rounding it up are some chocolate churros perfect for a sweet end to a delicious meal.
Drinks
Calalenta Fantini
Raise a classy toast to your loved one this Valentine’s Day. Made from grapes hand-picked at night, Calalenta Fantini’s wine has refreshing notes of strawberry, fresh watermelons, and rose petals, and your nose experiences all the aroma of mulberries, blueberries, blackberries and blackcurrants, pink grapefruit, and floral hints.
Laurent-Perrier
A combination of soil, climate, growing conditions, craft, and heritage, Laurent-Perrier, an exquisite rose Champagne provides you with the luxury and depth to set just the right mood. So if you’re in the mood to pop some bubbly for an extra special Valentine’s Day, you can’t go wrong with a bottle of this!
Copter7
A box of chocolates, a bottle of wine and a big beautiful bouquet of roses is the most classic (and admittedly cliched!) way to say ‘I Love You’ to a significant other. But 2022 demands it to be a little different this time. Shake things up this Valentine’s and gift your partner Copter7 beer as special as them. You can also go for the curated four-pack beer hampers, a perfect two and two to split.
Glenmorangie Quinta Ruban
Elegance comes bottled in the Glenmorangie Quinta Ruban. Aged 14 years the whiskey offers notes of Turkish delight, honeysuckle, tangerines and dark chocolate. The soft, velvety texture of this single malt will make for the ideal gift to mark Valentine’s Day this year. With an endless imagination and five essential ingredients: wood, water, barley, yeast and time, Glenmorangie is known for exquisite single malt whiskies as unpredictable as their Director of Whiskey Creation – Dr Bill Lumsden. Indulge in its rich, velvety taste for an unmatched single malt experience.
Jacob’s Creek Sparkling Chardonnay Pinot
A fun filled celebration wrapped in love always calls for a glass of wine. Jacob’s Creek, Australia’s number one bottled wine brand has the perfect wine to celebrate this day of love – Jacob’s Creek Sparkling Chardonnay Pinot.The refreshing lemon citrus aromas of Chardonnay are in harmony with the red currant characters of Pinot Noir. Generous citrus fruit flavours are enhanced with creamy nutty yeast characters providing both richness and structure. The wine finishes soft, crisp and clean. This can be perfectly paired with various delicacies like macaroni and cheese, fried chicken, a creamy soup or even some classic Indian papdi-chaat! Talk about versatile Valentine’s gifts.
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Hennessy Very Special Limited Edition by Julien Colombier
In an attempt to pay tribute to nature, Maison Hennessy has produced this Very Special Limited edition by the French artist Julien Colombier. This limited-edition Hennessy VS features Colombier’s trademark botanical motifs in paint and coloured chalk along with grapes and vine leaves inspired by the vineyards of the Cognac region. A stylish re-imagining of a classic design, it is the perfect gift for cognac connoisseurs and art lovers.
Vahdam India
This Valentine’s, wish your loved ones good health, immunity, wellness and happiness by gifting Vahdam India’s high quality teas sourced directly from farms, and blended with 100% natural, native Indian spices, herbs, and other ingredients. These tea sets that are packed in luxuriously exquisite boxes of shades of gold, green, red and yellow make it an extremely thoughtful yet unique gift for valentine’s day.
Sleepy Owl Coffee
Rekindle your relationship with some great coffee courtesy the Premium Instant Kit by Sleepy Owl. The kit contains a frother, Premium Instant Coffee Original (100g), and a free ceramic mug. This Premium Coffee kit is a complete package for all the coffee loving couples this Valentine’s, be it those hooked on to their black coffee or the ones who prefer it frothy and milky.
Golden Tips Tea
The pandemic has no doubt changed the norms of celebration, but the spirit to celebrate love remains. With Valentine’s Day around the corner, Golden Tips has something truly special up their sleeve. Offering an array of flavours, the “Collection of Exotic 3-season Teas” is a perfect pick for your loved one. The luxe packaging and delicate flavours make this the perfect gift, especially for a tea loving partner.
Bonus
Valentine’s Day Table Settings by Kaunteya
Luxury brand Kaunteya unveils their attractive and striking Valentine’s day tableware collection – Pichwal. Be it a candlelight dinner with your significant other, or a night of the infamous ‘Galentine’s dinner’, this table setup by Kanteya is here to make your hearts swoon and spark up all kinds of celebrations. Pichwai painting, normally done on cloth, takes the contemporary route to evoke the intricacies of the art tradition. The designer distils the essence of the artform to create minimal motifs that exalt the luxury collection. The tableware is further adorned with 24k gold for a regal finish.
Svish
She Likes It, He Loves It! Keeping the couple’s comfort in mind, these on-the-go couple’s packs by Svish houses intimate hygiene wipes with natural extracts of aloe vera, cucumber, and oud fragrance, crafted with a unique formula for no itching, no odour, no irritation to keep the couple going. Here come the added benefits, they are a 100% non-biodegradable, alcohol-free, paraben-free, gentle formula, dermatologically tested for your protection and comfort.
Elbuor
Now here’s a package of love that shows you care. Introducing Elbuor, India’s first low glycemic index, vegan & diabetic friendly range of products that are made with rarefied ingredients and taste exquisite. Dive into India’s first monk fruit sweetener based 70% dark signature chocolate collection for an absolutely divine, exclusive and healthy Valentine’s day. In addition, they’ve given a miss to the usual red and pink cliché, imparting a greater sense of intimacy! It contains 2 tea vials and 2 scented body candles, one male and one female.
Valentine’s Day collection of gifts and flowers by Interflora
The safest way to say Valentine’s Day is always through a classic collection of flowers. No one does it better than Interflora, the world’s largest and most trusted flower delivery network across over 100 countries. This season, there’s a timeless collection of flowers aptly named ‘Say it beyond the ordinary’. The collection entails romantic red roses, abundant gypso and even dried flowers enveloped in love for something a little more unique.
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