Although this Valentine’s Day Floradora cocktail has relatively few ingredients, there are many ways you can adjust this recipe to suit your needs and tastes. If you don’t have raspberry gin, you can equally make this Floradora cocktail with straight gin and raspberry syrup. Or, if you want a more alcoholic taste, try using a mixture of gin and Chambord. To make this a virgin cocktail, you can also omit the gin entirely and simply mix the drink with raspberry syrup, rosewater, lime juice, and ginger ale.
Floradora is classically a raspberry-based drink, but if you don’t like raspberries or don’t have raspberry-based ingredients, you can use different flavored gins to give your drink a different finish. To give this drink an extra kick, you can replace the ginger ale with a more pungent ginger beer. Finally, if you come back from the grocery store and realize you forgot your limes, don’t worry. Lemon juice is a good substitute and adds a citrusy freshness.