Flowers make you smile

By Fiona Ogilvie
December 2 2017 - 4:30am
Detail from A Vase of Flowers by Dutch artist Margareta Haverman (d. during or after 1722), from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 2018 Desk Diary.
Detail from A Vase of Flowers by Dutch artist Margareta Haverman (d. during or after 1722), from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 2018 Desk Diary.

Have you noticed how everyone smiles when you give them flowers? Apparently their sight and smell release chemicals in the body that make us feel happy. So I’ve been looking for flowery Christmas gifts, which is a double whammy – the pleasure of looking at flowers is enhanced when combined with the pleasure of buying someone a present. 

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