‘I’ve found the 6 best non-cheesy gift ideas for people that hate Valentine’s Day’

Want to springiness idiosyncratic – oregon yourself– a dainty astir Valentine's Day but find 'traditional' acquisition ideas excessively cheesy? I've got your covered – and not a teddy carnivore successful sight...

With Valentine's Day coming up adjacent week (Friday 14 February), it's hard to disregard that the shops are presently filled with heart-shaped balloons, heart-shaped boxes of chocolates, teddies holding hearts...heart-shaped everything, really. Here astatine The Mirror we've rounded up our prime of the best accepted V-Day gifts, but if you're aft thing a small spot different, support reading...

I'm successful a loving, semipermanent narration but we've ne'er celebrated Valentine's Day oregon bought each different gifts, uncovering the full thought reasonably cheesy, and profoundly uncool. However, I bash similar receiving gifts, immoderate the occasion, and besides buying myself small treats. With that successful mind, I've rounded up a fewer of my favourite cool, quirky and utile things that I deliberation anyone would beryllium thrilled to receive, whether connected Valentine's Day oregon astatine immoderate constituent successful the year...

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Best alternate Valentine's Day gifts for 2025

Lego Pretty Pink Flower Bouquet

£54.99 from LEGO

I bash really emotion receiving flowers (these are our favourites), but if you're looking for thing a small antithetic – and that volition past longer than a emblematic clump – I emotion the thought of giving this LEGO bouquet instead.

We're large LEGO fans successful our household and regularly bargain sets, some for each different arsenic gifts and arsenic treats for ourselves, and I deliberation this plan manages to look beauteous and feminine (not thing that tin ever beryllium said astir LEGO) builds!). I can't hold to marque a commencement connected it this February.

• Pretty Pink Flower Bouquet, £54.99 from LEGO

Hotel Chocolat The Nice Slice – Valentine's Edition

£17.95 from Hotel Chocolat

OK, yes, it's chocolate, and determination are hearts connected it, but this is mode amended than your modular enactment box, IMO. If you haven't tried 1 of Hotel Chocolat's Nice Slice's before, you're successful for a dainty – thing betwixt a tiffin-type barroom and a cocoa bar, they're large slabs of praline packed with crispy rice, cornflakes and caramel. Keep it successful the fridge acceptable to chopped disconnected a portion and bask with a cupful of beverage successful beforehand of the telly – existent romance.

For thing a spot much interactive, I besides emotion Hotel Chocolat's Mini Chocolate Dipping Adventure for Two, £28.95.

• The Nice Slice Valentines Edition, £17.95 from Hotel Chocolat

Côte des Roses Rosé

£14.99 from Waitrose

If you oregon your loved 1 portion wine, I deliberation a bully vessel ever makes a beauteous gift, and thing to bask together, too. Summer whitethorn beryllium the emblematic 'rosé season' but this 1 tastes delicious each twelvemonth round – crisp, adust and your classical airy French rosé – and this limited-edition plan gives a motion to Valentine's Day.

• Côte des Roses Organic Languedoc Rosé Limited Edition, £14.99 from Waitrose

Diptyque Classic Candle

£58 from Diptyque

I don't cognize galore who wouldn't beryllium thrilled to person a Diptyque candle, astatine immoderate constituent successful the year. It isn't the strongest of their fragrances but Papier is my favourite Diptyque scent to deterioration arsenic a perfume, and truthful I'm excited that it's present disposable arsenic a candle. It smells crisp, cleanable and ever truthful somewhat musky, with the odor of 'paper' coming from the antithetic constituent of sesame.

Otherwise, Baies is 1 of Diptyque's astir fashionable scents, and a guaranteed to delight.

• Papier Classic Candle, £58 from Diptyque

Loowoko Candle Warmer Lamp

Currently £28.99 from Amazon (usual terms £34.99)

Along a akin vein, this antithetic acquisition thought comes from our caput of buying Zoe, who said it has 'transformed her temper and her surviving room'. This clever Loowoko lamp melts your favourite scented candles successful a cleaner, safer way, acknowledgment to a 50-watt halogen bulb that mildly warms the wax. Within minutes, you’ll announcement the fragrance filling the room, and the champion part? No flames, nary soot and nary indoor pollution.

You tin work Zoe's afloat reappraisal here.

• Loowoko Candle Warmer Lamp, presently £28.99 from Amazon (usual terms £34.99)

Elemis Black Cherry Pro-Collagen Cleansing Balm

£49 from Elemis

In presumption of quality products with cult classical status, Elemis' Pro-Collagen Cleansing Balm is surely up there, and this Black Cherry is the latest fragranced balm. It's made of the aforesaid look arsenic the much-loved archetypal – a trio of nourishing oils arsenic good arsenic marine algae, and roseate and mimosa waxes – but with a saccharine caller scent of cherry, almond and vanilla. I'm obsessed, and I deliberation immoderate skincare instrumentality would beryllium too.

• Black Cherry Pro-Collagen Cleansing Balm, £49 from Elemis