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The Sims 4 Flower Arranging

Scent Effects and Making Money as a Florist

The Flower Arranging Skill in The Sims 4 Seasons lets you make massive amounts of money whether you choose to grow flowers or not.

The Sims 4 Seasons features a new floral arranging skill that allows players to take their fresh flowers and turn them into arrangements. These arrangements can be used around the home as decorations, distributed as gifts, or turned into stock in a Get to Work Retail Business allowing you to run a florist shop.

Video Guide: Planning and Running a Florist

This video guide covers a lot of new and old mechanics. You'll learn how to make masterpiece floral arrangements, plan ahead for the opening of a retail business that sells flowers, and finally be taught some tips that help you to make sales.

Getting Started

Uncheck 'Use Fresh Ingredients' if you'd like to preserve your flowers. You'll automatically buy any missing flowers, getting a discount if you have even some of the required flowers.

You can start floral arranging without taking the gardening career, though you'll certainly get some extra money by working at home as a florist after getting through the early gardening career levels. Simply purchase the Violets are Blue Flower Arranging Table from Study > Hobbies and Skills in Sort by Room (Buy Mode). Skill books are available as well and it's certainly encouraged here. You'll be losing money for the first few levels unless you have fresh flowers.

With each arrangement, you have the option of using fresh flowers. If the flowers themselves are decent quality it helps to increase the quality of the final product, while also saving you from having to buy them before you can craft the arrangement (this is done automatically). Remember to uncheck the 'Use Fresh Ingredients' box at the top left of the crafting menu if you do not want to use your stored flowers. Flowers can be in your Sim's inventory or stocked inside the flower arranging table by dragging them from the inventory.

Floral Arranging Skill Levels

Add scents to floral arrangements for some powerful effects, such as scent of life.

The ideal mood for flower arranging is Inspired. Being inspired will increase skill gains while also giving a better chance of good quality arrangements (so it seems, anyway). Here is what you unlock on each skill up. Be sure to read on below for some advice that might help you to avoid losing too much money while you're low level in flower arranging.

• Level 1 - At the beginning, you can make arrangements with Tulips, Holly, Daisy, Dahlia, Chrysanthemum, Bluebell, and Begonias.
• Level 2 - Arrangements with Roses, Snapdragons, and Crocuses unlock
• Level 3 - Additional arrangements can be made with Begonias, Dahlias, and Tulips. Scents from Snowdrop and Crocuses can be added to excellent-quality arrangements.
• Level 4 - Arrangements with Snowdrops, Lilies, and Christmas Roses unlock. Scents from Daisies and Bluebells can be added to excellent-quality arrangements. Level 1 floral arrangements will get a quality boost.
• Level 5 - Arrangements from Orchids and Birds of Paradise unlock. Excellent-quality arrangements can be scented from Roses and Dahlias. Level 2 floral arrangements get a quality boost.
• Level 6 - Excellent-quality arrangements can be scented from Snapdragons and Chrysanthemums. Level 3 floral arrangements get a quality boost.
• Level 7 - Excellent-quality arrangements can be scented from Tulips and Christmas Roses. Level 4 floral arrangements will be of higher quality.
• Level 8 - Excellent-quality arrangements can now be scented with Begonias and Birds of Paradise. Level 5 floral arrangements will be of higher quality.
• Level 9 - Excellent-quality arrangements can be scented from Lilies and Death Flowers.
• Level 10 - Excellent-quality arrangements can be scented from Orchids.

Making Money as a Florist

You can make great money as a floral arranger, even more so if you choose to open a retail shop.

Starting this skill, you're going to lose money if you don't have fresh flowers. Growing your own has a number of benefits, higher margins when you make pristine/excellent flowers and less risk of running yourself into the ground while you develop the trade. There are only 3 quality levels. Poor but fresh reduces the value by 33%, normal but pristine freshness adds 50% and excellent adds 100% to the base cost (more on that soon).

When you begin, try to stick with lower level flowers unless you have money to burn. There are 5 'skill levels' to the flowers and you'll notice that at level 4 in Flower Arranging skill you get a boost to your level 1 flowers. Stick with level 1 flowers even if you unlock more, because you're still much more likely to make normal/excellent until you get the extra boosts to quality for the other arrangements. These are obviously marked in the crafting interface and you can even sort by skill level. This is to slow the cash burn early on and be more likely to produce a profit.

Quality, Masterpieces, and Freshness - Making Money with Floral Arrangements

Flowers that are very fresh are 'Pristine' and go to normal, then rot. Being rotten tanks the value of the flowers. The drop to normal comes 24-48 hours after you first craft the flowers. Pristine freshness gives a 33% boost to value but changes to 50% for higher qualities. To get the final value of flowers, first the value is multiplied by the actual quality level (poor - 50%, normal - 100%, and excellent 200%). So $100 flowers become $200 if excellent. However they should also be pristine freshness, so get another 33% boost (200 * 1.33) for $266. So we've raised our $100 flowers by 166% profit margin. Amazing right? However there is another factor - they can also be a Masterpiece starting at level 7, and this is where this skill goes to utterly broken at high levels.

Because of the way the game calculates all this, adding bonuses in a multiplicative manner, it results in insane values. It only takes about 90 minutes to make an arrangement. If it comes out a masterpiece, it is 2-3x the base value with quality taken into account, then multiplied by 1.5 for freshness. To give you some idea - a crocus is $34. It comes out excellent, it is now $68. Now the value is multiplied by any random number between 2 to 3. So, our crocus is now worth 136 to 204. With freshness, it's $204-$306. for a $34 investment. Sounds reasonable, but it gets more absurd when you consider it's still 90 minutes to make an $800 arrangement. These will come out in the $5000 to 6000 range for effectively $4,000 an hour. This is before you put a markup on it at your retail shop. Give it's already broken it's probably good that marketable does not seem to have an effect on flower arrangements.

If you put bluebells scent on the flowers, they won't rot so the urgency to sell them goes away. This is a good thing, but one thing about running a flower shop would be you need to sacrifice some of your inventory to wilting. So you need to harvest and make the correct amount to sell each day and toss some of it. With enough bluebells, you can stock up the store with $2,000 to $6,000 flowers at a high markup and leave each day when you make a sale.

Scents - Special Interactions with Arrangements

The Scent of Life can be used to make your Sims immortal, barring any accidents of course. The Scent of Death can be used to make a Sim an elder, or make an elder die.

An arrangement must come out excellent quality in order to be scented. Once scented, you can click the arrangement to do a special interaction with it - often giving a moodlet, but sometimes with other effects. There are no auras as far as I can tell. Scents do not seem to boost value, though one scent (bluebell) can be helpful to selling flowers in retail. Most other cases of using flowers to make money would involve you selling them as soon as they're made, so rotting and freshness is a non-issue. To add a scent, click the flower while it's still on the work station. You can drag an arrangement back to the table if you forgot to add a scent.

Seasons Expansion Guides

Seasons Cheats
Expansion Features
Weather Machine
Patchy the Straw Man
Beekeeping
Father Winter
Scouting (Children/Teens)
Flower Arranging Skill
Gardener Career

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Tracey

Begonia is 'Cursed'

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25th June 2018 4:17am

Junane

Can an arrangement be scented multiple times? I'm tempted to try making an arrangement whose condition rotting is slowed down but also calms bees.

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30th June 2018 9:19am

Playlot

I don' think this is possible, shame though, it would have been good to make some scents timeless and their effect.

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30th June 2018 8:42pm

Tan

Does anyone know where I can actually find Dahlias so that I can plant them? I can't find a reference to it anywhere on the internet lol.

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7th July 2018 5:10pm

Playlot

Dahlias don't grow in the wild so you will have to get them from seed packets. Carl has all the plants listed here in his Gardening Guide and has a chart with a brief explanation of where to find or get each plant type.

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7th July 2018 8:17pm

Tan

Also too, has anyone else noticed that wonkiness of how birds of paradise are growing? They never sprout and yes, I have them outside in the summer to grow lol.

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7th July 2018 5:11pm

Playlot

Yes, there is now about a 1/600 % chance of getting the desired harvestable type from a spliced plant so the chances are super low. Maybe try your hand at spam-opening seed packets as least you know you'll eventually get one for sure. Guide to Gardening Scroll down for chart that lists where plants can be found

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7th July 2018 8:20pm

Captain

Does the marketable and creative visionary trait work on flower arrangements?

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15th February 2019 7:24pm

Playlot

Great question! I'll get back to you on that one soon :)

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15th February 2019 9:13pm

Jennifer 5581

What is the best mood for a florist, or does it matter? I was guessing inspired or focused.. but would like to know for sure.. thanks!!

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21st February 2019 6:56am

Playlot

For a sim who is trying to make the best possible flower arrangement Very Inspired is best but you'll need good or better (if possible) quality flowers as well.

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21st February 2019 6:31pm

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