Not surprisingly, everyone wants a little chocolate on Valentine’s Day, perhaps because scientific studies have shown its consumption releases the same feel-good chemicals as falling in love. With so many clever chocolatiers throughout the city and beyond, it’s not difficult to find unconventional chocolate gifts.

“Eat the chocolate and find the destiny of your love,” chocolatier Max Brenner (841 Broadway, between 13th and 14th streets, 212-388-0030) advises on a package of Valentine’s pralines, part of the “Just Love” gift set ($75.50), which includes a large assortment of chocolates filled with nuts, caramel, and roasted coconut, packed in a stylish miniature hat box. If the question is chocolate or flowers, Brenner’s answer — get both — is delivered in the “Praline Rose Box,” which includes six classic pralines and six dried roses ($16.50) in a simple box. For the bibliophile, there’s a book-shaped package filled with exotic ganache in flavors such as rose, Espelette chili pepper, passion fruit, and licorice ($10–$12) at La Maison du Chocolat (118 Madison Ave., 212-744-7117). The edible white chocolate lid, decorated with pretty red hearts on Charles Chocolates’s (www.charleschocolates.com) Valentine’s box is just the proverbial icing on this set of 24 chocolate heart confections with raspberry, passion fruit, and mojito filling ($60). Neuhaus (89 E. 42nd St. at Park Avenue, 212-972-3740) takes a classic approach to the Valentine’s Day motif with a box of its original pralines, in a heart-shaped box ($59), while lips are all puckered on Brooklyn-based Jacques Torres’s box of 50 kiss-marked dark or milk chocolates with a touch of the bubbly, Taittinger Rosé Champagne ($55). A designer Glenda Geis frame handbag is all the more irresistible when filled with six different sumptuous chocolate bars from Chocolate Bar (48 Eighth Ave. at Horatio Street, 212-366-1541), or there are the classic cosmopolitan truffles, each silkscreened with a heart design and boxed simply for sweet perfection.