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Flowers help Love Bloom

Man buying flowersThey’ve been known as a symbol of love for centuries but now a study has proven that flowers really do put women in the mood for romance.

According to a report by researchers from the University of Southern Brittany in France one of the best places for a man to woo a woman is outside a florist.

The study found that one in four lone female shoppers gave their telephone number to an attractive stranger when they were approached in front of a flower shop, more than twice the number who succumbed to the same proposition near a shoe shop.

In the study, a panel of women picked five young men who stood out as exceptionally good-looking. The men were then sent to shopping areas to approach 120 young women near flower, shoe and cake shops.

The presence of flowers, associated as they are with romance, may trigger positive feelings in women, making them more likely to agree, the researchers said.