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  • What Is Flower Arranging?
  • How To Learn The Flower Arranging Skill
  • Where To Get The Flower Arranging Table
  • Flower Arranging Skill Levels And Benefits
  • What Scenting Flowers Does
  • Growing Your Own Flowers

Learning new skills and honing them to perfection is one of the most exciting parts of playing The Sims 4. That might partially be because there is truly a skill for everything. The Sims has come a long way since its days of simplistic models with basic functions, and the result is a fantastic and diverse experience.

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Take the Seasons expansion, which beyond giving us season-specific events and interactions, gave us heaps of new content to enhance the lives of our Sims. It brought back a niche, yet beloved addition to the game; flower arranging. And, like everything else in the world of The Sims, there is more to this craft than meets the eye.

What Is Flower Arranging?

Flower Arranging made its first debut as a talent badge in The Sims 2, as a part of the Open for Business expansion pack. In The Sims 4, it returned as a skill Sims can learn in the Seasons expansion.

It can also be a source of income in the same way that skills like painting and writing can be. Sims will be able to craft different quality craftables as they build this skill.

Flower Arranging is also a part of the Gardener career's Floral Designer branch. No other careers require Sims to develop this skill.

How To Learn The Flower Arranging Skill

There are two things you can do to make your Sim learn this skill,and they will both requireintent, as there are no actions that will make themacquire this skill randomly.

The first is purchasing a flower-arranging table, theninteracting with it to make them arrange flowers. The other option for learning the flower arranging skill is topurchase a skill book using a bookcase.

Where To Get The Flower Arranging Table

There is just one flower arranging table available in the game, though it comes in a variety of colors, so you can customize itto fit your Sim's other furniture.

To find the table you need to head to Build Mode, click on Outdoors, locate the Outdoor Activities section, and scroll until you find the table, which is called Violets Are Blue Flower Arranging Table. It is the only item in the entire build menu to signal +Flower Arranging Skill.

You can also type in flower arranging in the Build Mode menu search bar to find the table quickly.

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Flower Arranging Skill Levels And Benefits

As you build this skill, you will unlock more options for crafting arrangements with rarer flowers, which makes the end product significantly more expensive, helping your Sims earn more.

Being highly skilled will also give your Sim the ability to create scented arrangements, which can have different effects on other Sims.

Level

Craftables And Abilities

Available Flowers For Crafting

1

  • Basic arrangements

Bluebell, Daisy, Holly, Tulip, Dahlia, Chrysanthemum and Begonia

2

  • Basic arrangements

Adds Rose, Snapdragon and Crocus

3

  • New compound arrangements
  • The ability to scent using Crocus and Snowdrop is unlocked

No new entries

4

  • The ability to scent using Bluebell and Daisy is unlocked
  • All arrangements that were craftable at level one will receive a slight quality boost

Adds Snowdrop, Lily and Christmas Rose

5

  • The ability to scent using Rose and Dahlia is unlocked
  • All arrangements that were craftable at level two will receive a slight quality boost

Adds Orchid and Bird of Paradise

6

  • The ability to scent using Snapdragon and Chrysanthemum is unlocked
  • All arrangements that were craftable at level three will receive a slight quality boost

No new entries

7

  • The ability to scent using Tulip and Christmas Rose is unlocked
  • All arrangements that were craftable at level four will receive a slight quality boost

No new entries

8

  • The ability to scent using Bird of Paradise and Begonia is unlocked
  • All arrangements that were craftable at level five will receive a slight quality boost

No new entries

9

  • The ability to scent using Lily and Death Flower is unlocked

No new entries

10

  • The ability to scent using Orchid is unlocked

No new entries

Basic arrangements include some compound arrangements with basic flowers, for example, Bluebells and Daisies.

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What Scenting Flowers Does

If you know The Sims, then you probably know that some of the game mechanics are quirky, to say the least. Scenting flowers is one of those cases where there is a lot to learn.

It is not merely about making flowers smell special. Each of the scents has an effect that will impact the environment, your Sims, other Sims, or the flowers themselves.

Only flower arrangements of excellent quality can be scented.

Scent

Effect Name

What It Does

Crocus

Bee-Friending

Can appease bees in a beehive. It has a limited AoE of roughly 6 build-mode squares, counting from where the flowers are placed.

Snowdrop

Seasons

Will give a +2 inspired moodlet lasting 2 hours after the Sim chooses to 'Watch Wisps.'

Buebell

Timelessness

Stops the wilting process, allowing flowers to stay pristine and forever fresh. Doesn't need any special interaction to take effect.

Daisy

Joy

Gives a +2 happy moodlet lasting 2 hours when the Sim chooses 'Joy and Sunshine.' It has the same effect on other Sims when given as a gift.

Rose

Romance

Gives a +2 flirty moodlet lasting 2 hours from the action 'Fill with Passion.' It has the same effect on other Sims when given as a gift.

Dahlia

Mourning

Gives a +3 sad moodlet lasting 2 hours from the action 'Weep from Beauty.' It has the same effect on other Sims when given as a gift.

Chrysanthemum

Friendship

Gives a +2 happy moodlet lasting 2 hours when the Sim chooses 'Full of Friendship.' It has the same effect on other Sims when given as a gift.

Snapdragon

Disrespect

Gives a +2 angry moodlet lasting 2 hours from interacting with one of the angry options: 'How Dare They', 'Rude News' or 'Shut Up.' It has the same effect on other Sims when given as a gift.

Tulip

Faithful

Only works when given as a gift. The receiving Sim will be locked out of romantic interactions with any other Sims except the gift giver. It does not get removed even after selling the flowers. Beware that if you make two Sims gift the flowers to one another, romantic interactions between them might get locked so that they cannot be performed at all.

Christmas Rose

Slumber

Sims will immediately go to sleep after choosing 'Feeling Drowsy.'

Bird of Paradise

Magnificence

Gives a +2 confident moodlet lasting 2 hours when the Sim chooses 'Be Magnificent.' It has the same effect on other Sims when given as a gift.

Begonia

Cursed

Gives a +3 dazed moodlet lasting 24 hours. Only takes effect when given as a gift.

Lily

Creativity

Gives a +2 inspired moodlet lasting 2 hours when the Sim chooses 'Creative Skill Inspiration.' It has the same effect on other Sims when given as a gift.

Death Flower

Death

Only works when given as a gift. The receiving Sim will instantly age to the next stage of their life. If given to an elder, they will die.

Orchid

Life

Makes Sims younger when they choose 'Inhale Life Essence.'

Most scents will add a new action to the pie menu when you interact with the scented arrangement. Giving them as gifts will affect another Sim. The Crocus scent is the only one serving as mood decor with a set AoE for its effect.

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Growing Your Own Flowers

Flower arranging goes extremely well with the Gardening skill, especially when you want to make it a source of income for your Sim. That is because each flower arrangement your Sim crafts will have a set cost for materials used, which can be reduced or eliminated altogether when the Sim has any of the materials they need in their inventory.

Fresh Flowers

When crafting flower arrangements, there is a checkmark for an option to use fresh ingredients, which can be unchecked but defaults as checked. This has no effect on the cost of arrangements, but it expands the bar to showcase the items available in your inventory that you can use when making an arrangement.

Using fresh flowers multiplies the payout for each arrangement sold. Fresh flowers are more durable as well, helping to preserve the flower arrangement for roughly an extra day before it wilts away.

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