a SOUP - August 2022
Potent Potions
- Aditya

I welcome you all to another issue of the Potent Potions column. As you may know, this month's theme is all about flowers!

Now, this was a difficult theme to work into the Potent Potions column (at least to me). But then I had this brilliant idea: discussing potions that enhance flowers. I mean, wouldn't you want enhanced flowers on your next date with your crush?

So, the first potion we'll discuss is Angel's Scintillating Smell! This potion does exactly what you think: it enhances the smell of the flowers. It makes the fragrance of the flower just sweeter! If you have a sweet-smelling flower, then it would smell simply divine with this potion; if you have a disgusting-smelling flower, then this potion will make its smell sweet; and if you have a flower with no smell, then this potion will make the smell sweet! Just imagine! You walk up to your date, and suddenly, you present some flowers in front of them. Your date takes them and takes a long sniff, pleased!

The next potion to induce this lovey-dovey effect is the Beautifying Potion. Now, there are minor differences between the Beautifying Potion, the Beautification Potion, and the Beauty Potion: the Beautifying Potion is used to increase the brightness of the colours of only plants, while the other two increase the beauty of animals and humans. This potion, when sprinkled on a flower, gives it different shades of colour mixed in such a way that is simply spellbinding to the eye. This potion best works on a bouquet of flowers, as then, there would be a wide variety of colours, and thus, a wide variety of shades. Next time you visit your crush with some flowers, just grab some of this potion, and sprinkle it on the flowers.

Coming next: the Shrinking Solution and the Engorgement Liquid. These potions are most useful when you have really large or really small flowers. Sometimes, a flower is so large that it is cumbersome to carry, and as you do not want your crush to be crushed under the weight of the flowers, you need something to shrink it. The Shrinking Solution may be used in this situation.

The Engorgement Liquid may be used in situations when you spot a beautiful flower that is too small for your crush to notice. Sometimes, the bouquets you buy may have some beautiful, small flowers which you want to be big; just get some of that Engorgement Liquid and throw it onto the flower.

And lastly, the Softening Potion. This potion, when used on the petals of the flowers, makes them extremely soft to caress. They are so soft that you'll just continue rubbing the petals for hours. This potion just makes the petals as soft as cotton when touched. This can also be used on the spikes present on the stems of flowers. The spikes will remain there; they will just be curved at the tip making it soft and safe to touch. The next time you give flowers to your crush, you don't have to worry about those pesky thorns coming in the way of your love!

The above potions are great potions to use on your flowers for your next date. It is best that they are used in bouquets of flowers. If you use them all together, just imagine what a divine combination you'll get! Your crush will simply faint at the sight of your flowers! I hope this article was helpful to you, and I'll be glad to know that at least one of these methods proved successful.

Anyway, we have reached the end of this article. Be sure to check in for the next one. This is goodbye from your writer, Aditya.