13 Love Potion Drinks: Valentines Day Cocktails and Mocktails
Celebrate love with these Valentines Day cocktails and mocktails. Imbued with a bit of magic and romance, these love potion drinks make for the perfect addition to any date or self-care night.
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Love Potion Herbs & Cocktail Ingredients
Love magic is at the center of many superstitions—one of my favorites is predicting a husband’s first name by tossing an apple peel over the shoulder. Likewise, many edible ingredients are steeped in love magic and folklore. In fact, these love potion herbs and cocktail ingredients make for perfect (and easy) Valentines day cocktails.
Through using ingredients associated with romance, happiness, and sensuality, you can easily craft love potion drinks. You can integrate them in various ways, such as: freshly, through syrups, bitters, tea, infusions, liqueurs, or even as an aromatic garnish.
Here are some wonderful love potion cocktail ingredients and their associations in magic:
Fruits
Whether it’s the iconic chocolate covered strawberry or raspberry liqueur, fruits make easily enticing love potion cocktails. You can add them directly to a favorite drink for an easy and fun twist, or even a float of flavored liqueur. Here are a few easy love potion ingredients. (All, in fact, are associated with Venus, the planet of love and romance—perfect for Valentines cocktails and mocktail).
- Apple – Love, Healing, Longevity, Fertility, Abundance, Wisdom, Magic
- Apricot – Love, Attraction, Gaining Favor
- Blackberry – Sensuality/Lust, Healing, Luck, Money/Abundance
- Cherry – Love, Abundance, Happiness in Marriage, Fertility
- Peach – Health, Happiness, Wisdom, Love & Fertility
- Strawberry – for Harmony, Good Luck, Love & Happiness
Floral Ingredients
Flowers are the hallmark of love: we spritz perfumes to attract and gift roses for love. Likewise, flowers (where edible) can help open us up to and attract love in cocktails or mocktails. Here are some common florals to incorporate in your love potions, whether it be through dried herbal form in syrups, bitters, or teas, or liqueurs. Just make sure it is organic!
- Rose – Love, Spiritual Connection, Healing
- Jasmine – Love, Money, Prophecy
- Lavender – Love, Peace, Intuition
- Hibiscus – Lust, Love, Divination
- Elderflower – Healing, Prosperity, Wedding Blessings
Spices
Spices add a bit of heat to any Valentines drink, and are easy, too—just a few pinch added directly or infused into a simple syrup can stir up some love magic.
- Cinnamon – Fast Luck, Power, Success, Lust/Love
- Cardamom – Love, Sex, Comfort
- Clove –, Love, Lust, Money/Riches, Vibration Raising, Stop Gossip
- Ginger – Love, Success, Vitality, Power
- Vanilla – Love, Sensuality, Peace, Money
Whether you’re making valentines day cocktails to share or a self-love potion for a party of one, any one of these ingredients make a great addition to a Valentines drink.
Making a Non Alcoholic Love Potion (Mocktail)
When it comes to date night, a galentine’s day party, or meeting up with a friend, it’s easy to think alcoholic drinks. However, more and more people are turning to non alcoholic options as part of a mindful approach to how we imbibe.
It is very easy to craft a love potion mocktail—or a love potion drink that is non alcoholic, for those not familiar with the term. And by using the ingredients listed above, they can be just as enticing so that you won’t miss the alcohol! For example, try adding directly to sparkling lemonades, iced teas, or even incorporating as a syrup.
In fact, 10 of the 13 love potion drinks below have nonalcoholic mocktail versions. (My husband is sober, so I always try to make both cocktail and mocktail versions of my recipes.) And most, if not all, of those love potion mocktails do not rely on non alcoholic spirits, making them accessible (although, I’d argue the right non alcoholic spirit is always a great investment!).
In addition to those love-infused non alcoholic options below, I deep dive into delicious, innovative, and accessible magical mocktails in my book Mystical Mocktails. In particular, the “Connection” section provides an array of recipes and rituals for love, gatherings, and connection.
Watch How to Make a Non Alcoholic Love Potion
You can watch how to make love potion mocktail in this demo I did of my Lunar Passion recipe from Mystical Mocktails:
13 Love Potion Drinks
Suggested Valentines Day Cocktails from my Book(s)
As an author, I put my favorite and most magical recipes into my books. Here are some great love potion drinks that make for wonderful Valentines cocktails from my works WitchCraft Cocktails and Mystical Mocktails:
Here are some fast favorite love potion suggestions from WitchCraft Cocktails:
- Love Witch’s Brew & Love Divination Coffee
- Venus Spritzer
- Strawberry Moon Daiquiri
- Love’s Lucky Charm
- Renewed Love
- Love Potion No. 10
Whether looking to relax at home with some luscious self love potions, or enjoying Valentines with loved ones, I hope you find a moment of love everyday!
