“Kisses when you’re lonely,
champagne when you’re dry,
greenbacks when you’re busted,
and heaven when you die.” Monica Convy
The lives of young boys and girls were strictly separate. However, one of the customs of the young people was name drawing. On the eve of the festival of Lupercalia the names of Roman girls were written on slips of paper and placed into jars. Each young man would draw a girl's name from the jar and would then be partners for the duration of the festival with the girl whom he chose. Sometimes the pairing of the children lasted an entire year, and often, they would fall in love and would later marry.
Under the rule of Emperor Claudius II Rome was involved in many bloody and unpopular campaigns. Claudius the Cruel was having a difficult time getting soldiers to join his military leagues. He believed that the reason was that roman men did not want to leave their loves or families. As a result, Claudius cancelled all marriages and engagements in Rome.
The good Saint Valentine was a priest at Rome in the days of Claudius II. He and Saint Marius aided the Christian martyrs and secretly married couples, and for this kind deed Saint Valentine was apprehended and dragged before the Prefect of Rome, who condemned him to be beaten to death with clubs and to have his head cut off. He suffered martyrdom on the 14th day of February, about the year 270.
At that time it was the custom in Rome, a very ancient custom, indeed, to celebrate in the month of February the Lupercalia, feasts in honour of a heathen god. On these occasions, amidst a variety of pagan ceremonies, the names of young women were placed in a box, from which they were drawn by the men as chance directed.
The pastors of the early Christian Church in Rome endeavoured to do away with the pagan element in these feasts by substituting the names of saints for those of maidens. And as the Lupercalia began about the middle of February, the pastors appear to have chosen Saint Valentine's Day for the celebration of this new feast. So it seems that the custom of young men.
Hundreds of years ago in England, many children dressed up as adults on Valentine's Day. They went singing from home to home. One verse they sang was:
Good morning to you, valentine;
Curl your locks as I do mine---
Two before and three behind.
Good morning to you, valentine.
When you’re trying to figure out a gift basket design that will cover all bases you should consider the occasion the gift is most suited for and the person (or group) intended for. Most everyone enjoys chocolate but that’s not true with caviar.
While food and wine gift baskets cover a larger taste spectrum, products that enhance the feel of skin and the smell of the body have been highly valued in every culture. With the discoveries on new continents trade routes introduced spices to the old world the range of scents became larger each year. At that time there was no perfume manufacturing per say, but home made fragranced products were very popular.
Rose petals, mint, lavender, jasmine, lily - were added to oils to persevere the fragrance, and eventually scent the oil. The oils were then rubbed on gloves, on the skin, burned as incense, or added to soap. All these uses become very popular and the gift baskets containing such items were very well received.
With advances in chemistry in the late 19th century the modern perfume as we know it went mainstream. Everything we use today is scented in one form or another – from soap, detergents, and candles to the most expensive perfumes – and the race for the next top seller is on.
As the gift basket giving tradition was revived and actually brought to unprecedented levels of popularity for the past half century, the perfume manufacturers had to keep up with the trend and come up with their own version of gift baskets – the gift sets. Gift sets contain two or more products of the same line, bundled together at a reduced price. Ideal as holiday gifts, gift baskets, Christmas gifts, birthdays, and anniversary gifts.
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Gift Baskets - Don't forget to add some perfume, cologne, or fragrance.
