If you go way back in history — I'm talking before grandparents met at a local dance, and even before the courting and dowries of the 1800s (thanks, "Bridgerton" — "love potions" were a thing.

In Act Two, Nemorino (tenor Celso Albelo) sings the bittersweet aria "Una furtiva lagrima." He sees "one secret tear" in Adina's eye, a sign that he may still have a chance with her, and says he'd ...

In pop culture today, love potions often drug people into a kind of aphrodisiac-fueled craze, subverting individual freewill. A love potion shouldn’t be about trickery, Bautista-Carolina ...