Sending Flowers to France: A Practical Guide

You can send flowers to France with Turboflora: we deliver to 23 French cities, including Paris and Cannes. Choose a bouquet on the France or city page, enter the recipient’s address and your card message, then pay online in rubles; the displayed bouquet price already includes delivery.

A thoughtful order starts with three decisions: whether the destination is covered, what flowers suit the recipient and when the gift should arrive. This guide helps you work through those choices, understand the checkout and prepare useful delivery details, especially when you are organising everything from another country.

Check the French destination before choosing flowers

Our French delivery coverage includes Paris, Argenteuil, Asnières-sur-Seine, Aulnay-sous-Bois, Boulogne-Billancourt, Cannes, Clamart and Clichy, among 23 cities in total. Start on the Flower delivery to France page and check the destination before settling on a bouquet. A nearby listed city does not by itself establish coverage for another address.

Use the recipient’s full address, including the postcode, apartment or building details where relevant, and a telephone number they can answer. Preserve French accents in names and street addresses when you have them. Copying an address from the recipient’s own message is safer than translating or reconstructing it from memory.

If the destination needs checking, contact a manager on WhatsApp with the city and address. You can also get help choosing the bouquet, agreeing the delivery time and card text, and requesting a photo before delivery. Resolve these details before building your plans around a particular arrival time.

Choose a bouquet that suits the person and the setting

Begin with the recipient’s preferences: colours they wear, flowers they have mentioned or the style of their home. Someone who enjoys bright interiors may appreciate a vivid mixed bouquet; someone who prefers restrained decoration may favour a simpler colour palette. These personal clues are more useful than choosing only by the occasion’s conventional colour.

For a romantic gift, roses can communicate affection, but the message should make your intention clear. Pink or mixed flowers can suit a tender note without making the whole gesture feel formal. For a friend, colleague or host, choose a design you would feel comfortable presenting in person and write a card that explains the reason for the gift.

Consider where the bouquet will go after it arrives. A very broad arrangement may be awkward on a crowded desk or small dining table, while strongly scented flowers may not suit someone sensitive to fragrance. If those details matter, explain them to the manager and ask for help choosing from the available options rather than assuming every bouquet can be altered.

Bouquets we can deliver

Bouquet of 1 yellow sunflowers

$13

Bouquet of 1 white lilies

$19

Bouquet of 1 pink lilies

$19

Bouquet of 3 gerberas mix

$21

Use French flower etiquette as a guide, with room for personal taste

In France, chrysanthemums have a strong association with remembrance and cemetery visits, particularly around All Saints’ Day. Unless you know the recipient enjoys them as everyday flowers, another choice is usually clearer for a birthday, thank-you or romantic gesture. Context matters more than treating any flower as universally unsuitable.

Red roses commonly carry a romantic meaning. If you are thanking a teacher, congratulating a colleague or sending flowers to a family friend, a mixed bouquet can make the intention less ambiguous. White flowers can look elegant in many settings; the surrounding flowers, presentation and your written message help establish the mood.

Write the card in the language the recipient will find most natural, whether that is French, English or Russian. A short, specific message usually feels warmer than a formal quotation: mention the birthday, achievement or kindness you are celebrating. Include your name if you want the recipient to know immediately who sent the flowers.

Agree the delivery timing and prepare a clear handover

For a French order, ask the manager to agree the delivery timing for the destination. Our Russian express delivery and time-window conditions do not apply to France. If the flowers are intended for a birthday dinner, an anniversary or another fixed event, explain that context when discussing the order so the timing request is clear.

When you are ordering from another country, state the date in full and refer to the time at the French destination. Avoid messages such as “tomorrow afternoon” without a date, especially near midnight. If you do not know when the recipient will be home, checking their availability discreetly can prevent a surprise from becoming an inconvenient interruption.

Delivery is anonymous by default: the courier does not name the sender, and a card with your text is free. The courier calls the recipient about 15 minutes before arrival. If the recipient is absent, we agree a second delivery that day or, with your consent, hand the flowers to a neighbour or concierge; provide clear contact details to help resolve the handover.

Understand the full cost and complete your order

For flowers sent abroad, the price is already converted to rubles and includes delivery. Choose your bouquet on the relevant country or city page, enter the address and card text, and pay online. The 500 RUB city delivery charge applies to Russian orders; it is not an extra French delivery fee to add to the international bouquet price.

Online checkout uses CloudPayments. Check the payment options displayed there before relying on a particular card, because acceptance of every foreign card is not guaranteed. If your card account uses another currency, check your bank’s conversion terms separately so you understand how a ruble payment will appear on your statement.

Before paying, read the destination, recipient’s name, telephone number and message once more. Pay particular attention to apartment numbers and any date you have agreed with the manager. For another international destination, use Flower delivery abroad, which lists all countries and cities; that page is in Russian. We deliver abroad to 39 countries and more than 1,130 cities.

Help the flowers last, or send your next bouquet to Russia

A useful care note is simple: place cut flowers in a clean vase, remove any leaves that would sit below the water and recut the stem ends with a clean, sharp tool. If flower food is supplied, follow its packet instructions. Check the water daily, replenish it as needed and change it when it becomes cloudy; wash the vase when changing the water.

Keep the bouquet away from radiators, direct sunlight and ripening fruit. Remove fading flowers and submerged foliage so they do not remain in the water. Different flowers open and age at different rates, so judge individual stems rather than expecting the entire bouquet to develop evenly. If the arrangement has specific care instructions, follow those.

If your next recipient is in Russia, we deliver across the country. City delivery costs 500 RUB; an operator confirms the price for remote districts and suburbs. In large Russian cities, express delivery takes 1–2 hours after confirmation, with other options including an exact time within ±30 minutes, windows of 09–12, 12–15, 15–18 or 18–21, and pre-ordering 1–30 days ahead. See Delivery and payment when planning that order.