"El Cariño Es Como Una Flor" ("Love is Like a Flower") is a song written, produced and performed by Italo-Venezuelan singer-songwriter Rudy La Scala. It was released as the lead single from Scala's fourth studio album Cuando Yo Amo (1990), and became his first number-one single in the Billboard Top Latin Songs chart while the aforementioned album peaked at number four in the Latin Pop Albums chart. The song became one of his better-known compositions after the success of the theme song from the soap opera Cristal, "Mi Vida Eres Tú", which broke sales records.