Maybe it's inhibitions or maybe you're just worried your scene will fall victim to the dreaded purple prose. Let's talk about that dreaded violet tint for second. Our genre takes hits all the time for being the home of purple prose. I don't even wanna go there. The answer is for romance, emotions.
Emotions are intangible and in a love scene they are also wrapped up in the senses.
Sight, smell, taste and touch. Those are two VERY different questions and in romance, they both should be answered. To describe emotion and sensation in romance, writers often use metaphors and similes to avoid sounding clinical, while at the same time, employing active verbs and adjectives to show the urgency of the action. His fingers stroked her to flash point, and everything happened at once. Her body tightened like a fist.