She’s coming to your place for the first time? You’re going to her place? A special occasion and, when it comes to flowers, you’re all thumbs (none of them green). Or, drum roll please, you really, really screwed up, and now she’s not talking to you.

Not to worry (okay, worry about that last one). We’ll take it case by case and work it out so you come up smelling like a hyacinth. (Make a note here – a hyacinth is a very fragrant, sweet smelling flower. Why not “smelling like a rose?” Your education begins. Commercial cut roses – while really pretty, and girls do like them – often have no fragrance. You already know more than most other guys. Read on.)