Flowers have traditionally been the way to a woman's heart, with Cupid turning one into a powerful love potion in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream when his arrow strikes it.
However the link between flowers and romance has more recently become the stuff of cliché, used by guilty men to cover misdemeanors or pushed by high street shops to boost sales on Valentine’s Day.
But scientific research has now found that a bouquet of flowers can indeed have a powerful impact on romance.
Psychologists have dicovered that the presence of flowers make women significantly more receptive to men’s advances, even when the flowers are in the background rather than presented as a gift.
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