For those who want to gift their love ones this article (Source: PeopleBoat.com) can be useful, though it's late.

Usual bouquet or box of chocolates is too old fashioned. Get your loved one personalized perfume as boutiques and online retailers are offering customers the opportunity to make a personal fragrance for anywhere from $20 and up for this Valentine's day. Let's play celebrity.

Scent Design based in Massachusetts, advertises itself as "the first fully functional online custom fragrance blending store." For $20, the company creates a one-ounce bottle of fragrance oil (not as diluted as a spray-on perfume) that combines up to five scents of your choice. From a selection of 50 fragrances, pick four that can be combined in any ratio you want; the fifth falls into the "just a touch of" category. Or, if you wish, simply pick oil and make that your signature fragrance. Site is very user-friendly, with detailed notes on all blending scents and offers 'recipe' ideas.

Another such company is Scent Crafters, a Michigan based company which charges $39.99 for a 3.4-ounce bottle of spray perfume with your choice of five scents blended and gives you the chance to name your scent.  As you choose the primary scent, you are provided with suggestion of scents to go with it.

The obvious drawback of online experience is that you really don’t know what you are getting. However, lots of these sites and stores such as Saludspabar offer you first to check out it's samples at a modest price of 3$ per sample.

If you are person who wants to get hands on the job, we recommend you to go boutique-style perfume purveyor where experience is personal and intimate.  One of such place is Fragrance Shop New York where a one-ounce spray bottle of the fragrance oil diluted with alcohol is charged 28$ and you get to sniff various fragrance oils until you narrowed down to few.

If you like to play mad scientist and blend without any assistance, you can order a $30 beginner's "perfumery set" from the Perfumer's Apprentice, a lab and online store based in Santa Cruz, California. The kit came with all the tools—12 fragrance oils, testing strips, bottles (with roll-on applicator) and more—plus an instruction booklet.

Any known allergies and personal character and style should be taken into consideration in the process. One should also remember individual body chemistry can change the way that a fragrance smells on individual’s skin.  Stress, hormones, diet and certain medications can also affect your natural skin scent, and thus change how a fragrance smells on the individual.

So this Valentine’s Day, let your loved one feel like a celebrity and give him/her ultimate intimate gift without burning hole in your pocket.

 Source: PeopleBoat.com