Love Art
Impress the art-lover in your life with a new selection of prints from the award-winning iconographiste Patrick Thomas, who combines iconic images to create a powerful message to make them his own.   In recent years he has exhibited his limited-edition silkscreens across five continents, including the V&A Santralistanbul Contemporary Art Centre in Istanbul and the Salvador Dali Museum in Florida. No fluffy-pink in sight. Buy here from Outline Editions,  Main image, © Patrick Thomas

Scent, Seduction & Cocktails with The Cocktail Lovers @ Les Senteurs,
They say that smell is the most emotional of the five senses. That the waft of a particular scent can instantly evoke the same feelings you had when you first experienced it.
So, for an evening of scent and seduction look no further than chic boutique perfumery Les Senteurs.Experts will take guests through a romantic scent journey that is designed to reawaken the senses and hopefully get them in the ‘mood’.  And London legends The Cocktail Lovers will be serving tempting cocktails to complement each divine aroma.
Tuesday 14th February, £25/person or £45/couple, including Champagne, cocktails, nibbles and goody bag. Book here

Create Your Own Love Potion with Tony Conigliaro & Beefeater 24
Keeping it cocktail ( not that we’re saying you need to be tipsy to enjoy Valentine’s ) Beefeater 24 and master molecular mixologist, Tony Conigliaro are giving a limited number of guests the chance to create their own love potions with their  masterclass The Science of Love.
The unique class is completely free and will also feature a behind the scenes look at the Drink Factory Lab as well as giving cocktail lovers an insight into the world of mixology.
The class will start within the lab itself and later move a short way down the road to 69 Colebrooke Row where guests will sample the drinks demonstrated within the lab.
Saturday February 18th, The Drink Factory, 35 Britannia Row, N18QH, RSVP spaces are limited , email david@bacchus-pr.com to reserve yours.

Hendrick’s Prepostorous Proposal Throne
Of course, this year, Valentines day has an added twist as on the 29th of February each leap year, the normal rules of courtship are reversed, and women may freely pursue and propose to gentlemen of their choice. To celebrate this topsy turvy scenario, Hendrick’s Unusual Month of Reverse Courtship will be hosting a variety of events in the build up.

Offering guidance for ladies wishing to woo and gentlemen hoping to avoid their advances, two schools will operate throughout the country: Ladies School of Nuptial Conquest will teach the forgotten arts of courtship so that cunning ladies can seduce the gentlemen in their sights and Hendrick’s School of Scoundrels teaching the tricks of how to best avoid these advances in a polite and refined way.

At the end of the month, Hendrick’s Preposterous Proposal Throne will pop-up at a variety of London locations offering ladies an opportunity to pop the question and make an honourable man of their evasive partner.  Further information and registration can be found on Hendricks Gin – on the righthand side scroll.
Monday 20th February,  The Lonsdale, 48 Lonsdale Road, Notting Hill, London, W11 2DE

A Bespoke Music Video by The Coopers
Music is the food of love and Not on the High Street are taking this to the ultimate level with their unique Valentine’s treat.
The online marketplace will be offering Twitter followers a personalised gift for their loved one : a  bespoke mini music video, put together by The Coopers.
To take part, you’ll need to follow @nothsdotcom and then tweet a message from now until the 14th  all about your Valentine, using the hashtag #TweetHeart to @nothsdotcom
The Coopers, winners of Futuresound 2011, will then whip each tweet into a personalised, stylish and unique music video and  tweet back to you on the big day.  Of course, if there’s a huge volume of Tweets they may not be able to work on every single one, but have promised to try their best! To make yours stand out be original and, of course, romantic.

Love Letters: 2000 Years of Romance
Or, if you prefer to keep it old-school, check out Love Letters : 2000 Years of Romance. It’s the first ever anthology to reproduce original love letters in each of the writers’ own hand.  Beautiful. Featuring letters from the Library’s unique collections, the romance spans from 168 BC to the 20th century and offers a rare insight into the intimate thoughts, feelings and desires of iconic individuals including Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII, Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde.
To celebrate the Library are holding a Valentine event with special guests, including acclaimed biographer Anne Sebba, who will join British Library curator Andrea Clarke, for a dip into the most intimate world of the handwritten love letter. Be inspired to write your loved-one a heartfelt note, and keep the art of letter-writing alive….

Love Letters: 2000 Years of Romance
,  Sat 11 Feb 2012, 2pm – 4.30pm,  Conference Centre, British Library, 
Price: £7.50 / £5 concessions

http, More details here :  Love Letters is available to buy from the British Library shop

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Loma-Ann Marks
Loma was a performer and freelance writer before becoming a journalist on the Daily Star Sunday, Daily Star and Express. She's the Founder and Editor of Culture Compass. North, South, East or West? I'll go anywhere. I like to think that I'm a pretty good map reader ( not everyone would agree ) but then I remind them that I navigated my way around the Paris one-way system with NO mistakes. High Class or Common or Garden? High class in the garden. Clothes or Culture? Culture in new clothes. My best night out ever made me feel....... That things would never be the same again. And they surely weren't the following day.

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