Seductive Scents: The Best Fragrances for Valentine’s Day & Beyond
We want to be transparent with you about how we make money. This website uses affiliate links. This means that if you click on an affiliate link and make a purchase, we may receive a commission from the retailer. This commission comes at no additional cost to you
Ah, Valentine’s Day.
Either you love it, or you hate it. There’s Cupid, flowers, hearts, chocolate. Each year I oscillate between the love and the hate- some years, I love what it represents. Love in Action. The beauty and affirmation of love.
And some years, I’ll admit I’m in a spiral of deep eye rolls and sighs at the commercial aspect of showing someone you love, that you do in fact, love them.
Valentine’s Day can be an affirmation of love to your spouse, partner, your love interest.
But as a single woman, I do have a ritual of a “self love day” on V-Day: I draw a milk bath, with rose petals, and a hot cup of tea and a poetry book, and I relax. I will sit in the bathtub for an hour- sometimes more, and listen to the sounds of Ella Fitzgerald For Lover’s record. And I remind myself that I am worthy of being adored.
Whether you’re in love with someone or in love with yourself (and hopefully both!); in a relationship with someone or single and looking (or not looking), Valentine’s Day should always be a reminder to savor and appreciate the power of love. Love is eternal and it’s one of the most beautiful aspects of being humans in the world: LOVE.
As a double Scorpio, I treat my date nights and my self love days like the rituals I can’t live without. As with any occasion in my life, I also can’t imagine a life without a scent or fragrance. Scents have been an age old experience since the origins of humans, and the philosophy of scent being attached to our memories, emotions, and psychological wellbeing continue to be explored. Who doesn’t want to explore a world of scents and fragrance that quele the human senses? A perfume can evoke memories, nostalgia, and the fervor of life. It’s my opinion that no outfit is complete without a sumptuous perfume that projects your mood, your sensibilities.
Desire. Romance. Spice. It’s a love language you can’t see, but is understood universally. No matter where we come from or what languages we speak, scent translates universally. Hence my obsession with lush fragrances.
It’s my first fragrance edit as a contributing writer for The Curvy Fashionista, and I hope you explore. Some will be iconic mainstays in our fragrance collections and some perhaps will be new to your palette. The scent profiles and fragrances I selected are ones that I felt feel special for Valentine’s Day, Date Night, A night out with the girls. But each of these fragrances for Valentine’s Day also feel timeless, and I hope you explore. Try them on, ask for samples, consider a discovery set, and indulge your olfactory nerves.
While the fragrances featured are centered around date night or Valentine’s Day, I often wear them everyday. You may decide to reserve some for special occasions or an era of your life, and that’s the magic of fragrances. I love when you can smell a perfume that transports you to a previous time in your life. Depending on your mood, a few of the perfumes selected can be worn for the remainder of the season (it’s still winter out there!) but some can be worn year round.
