Christmas gift for wealth woman who has everything

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looking for a gift suggestion for a wealthy woman in her 40’s who has everything. She can afford to buy herself whatever she wants and often buys designer items. She is so generous to my family but I am stumped what to get her this year. She hates personalised stuff and her perfume taste is £150 a bottle. Loves make up and skincare and candles (but has loads)

also open to it being a family gift to her household (2,adults and 2young adults)

What is your budget? I think a carefully chosen book can a very thoughtful present on a small budget.

In ascending order of expense, as you haven’t given a budget:

Honey

Some books from the Baillie Gifford Prize 2022 Shortlist

A bottle or two of English wine. (Site a bit slow but will open eventually.)

Pineapple plant

A bouquet of flowers scheduled to be delivered a few days before Christmas. I’ve got this one ordered for my DMIL who sounds like your friend! www.prestigeflowers.co.uk/christmas-flowers/yuletide

Budget? A wine and cheese matching package or just the cheese - unusual or special cheese that you can’t get at Waitrose, there are a few good online suppliers. A limited edition diptique candle. Fortnums hamper - not with the wine as she’ll probably have her own taste - but all the foodie pickle / relish / biscuit bits that are incredibly high quality and you can’t get at Waitrose!

A nice bottle of dessert wine
Voucher for something you can do together or that she can do with DP (comedy night tickets for example)
Posh chocs

How well do you know her?

I bought a friend an old lonely planet guide to Europe (she had gone backpacking as a student and I know her dc drew on her copy years ago and it was thrown out, wasn't expensive but she was really pleased - I wrapped it in a silk scarf from the charity shop and tied up with ribbon

Does she like cheese/wine/ food?

If so, find a boutique unusual cheese/wine/food item that she probably hasn’t tried or seen. I’d love something like that

Nice ceramic bowl planted up with bulbs.

Do they have pets? If so, something pet-related?

Cinema voucher?

Board game? Eg Pandemic.

A good mix of coffee beans

Nice wine
Theater/opera tickets
Restaurant voucher
Schedule calendar
Glassware
Candle making kit if she doesn't make candles on her own

I can’t really see a mature, wealthy, UK based woman with roomfuls of priceless inherited or carefully chosen crystal feeling the need for relatively cheap American glassware?

(But perhaps that’s just my imagination?)

Twin her tap or toilet:

www.toilettwinning.org/latrine/8/

If she likes cheese, Paxton and Whitfield do amazing cheese gifts and they are beautifully packaged www.paxtonandwhitfield.co.uk/shop/cheese-gifts

A wealthy friend once told me how rare it was for somebody to do something simple like buy them a coffee or insist on treating them to a cinema ticket - not saying to do anything as basic as that but something small and thoughtful might go down very well.

Flowers or a plant.

I have a similar friend, though older. She is quite fussy about wine so I would never presume to choose something for her.

I can't really do flowers because she travels abroad a lot for work so I'd never know if she was going to be at home to enjoy them.

She and her husband love antiques and pictures, but they are too personal for someone else to choose. They also love board games, and we have often gone for those in the past.

A couple of years ago I had a jigsaw made of an aerial photo using their postcode as the centre of the picture. That went down quite well - though it was hard to do because their house is quite isolated so surrounded by green fields and hedges, with not many distinguishing features!

Last year, we agreed to stop giving each other presents, but I wanted for give them a token something because they despite our protests they continue to buy presents for my young adult children and they don't have children of their own for us to reciprocate. I gave them a couple of pots of homemade preserves and they were extremely well received.

Posh hamper.

What about one of those big boxes of 'Who Gives a Crap?' toilet rolls? If she wouldn't take it as rude, that is. I read a Reddit thread the other day about bizarrely brilliant Christmas gifts and this was one cited. It's so far left field as to be potentially a good thing!(?)

Diptyque candle
Aesop handwash
Nyetimber champagne

That would be utterly odd.

I think good gifts would be

• something for a charity of my interests or donation to a local school, theatre company, food bank etc would be my top choice
• or:
• Aesop handwash
• white company seychelles stuff
• diptique candle
• le labo anything
• good coffee beans
• Good English wine, something sparkling would be nice
• decent chocolate which tastes like old cadburys (still on a mission for that)
• a nice houseplant
• some bulbs in an outdoor planter which are foolproof, I am a terrible gardener!

I would really prefer to have one decent thing than a handful of cheap items as I really feel like we have way too much stuff and am conscious of decluttering

Does she read? Have a look at Persephone books for lovely kids oks, often overlooked female authors, beautifully printed. See also Slightly Foxed

A lovely book! The whale on theatre is a beautiful book. You could also pop to Homesense and by a DW candle. They smell amazing!