Real Talk About Bath and Body Works Candles

Well gang, after the Easter and Mother's Day candles/floorset release , it looks will be BBW will officially be done with spring. I say that because BBW is currently testing the first round of summer candles. At the moment, there are 2 candle collection testing. The first collection is a group of conceptual summer scents of the beachy variety. The labels are wraparound (doesn't look that is going away anytime soon) with various blue and white mosaic-esque or marble-ish designs. New scents include... Beachscape - Fresh Sea Breeze, Warm Cotton, Sweet Lotus Blossom (this sounds like Beach Blossom ; same notes-ish -  Ocean Lotus, Soft Beach Air, Warm Musk) Coastal Watermelon - Juicy Watermelon, Pinch of Pink Sea Salts, Ocean Waves (NOT Watermelon Lemonade or Watermelon Ice ) Returning scents include Beach Sage & Mint (YASSS) , Pineapple Mango , Copper Coconut and Ma-blah-gony Stankwood (*EYEROLL) The second collection has wraparound labels (again) with vario...

Well it is officially spring though if you're in the North like I am, it's certainly not feeling like it. If you've got a case of winter blues and need a bit of pring fever, maybe these moodboards will help. Enjoy!

I have not bought a single solitary candle since SAS... I repeat, I have not bought a single solitary candle since SAS. Now SAS ended January 19th...it is now March 10, damn near Spring, and in between that time there has been about 8 different candle collections released - I haven't anything from any of said collections. And it's not like there wasn't anything that piqued my interest as there were a few that I had my eyes on it. So, you may be wondering why I didn't just buy what I was interested in... one reason - the sale price. I just can't justify or rationalize buying a candle for 14.50 even with a coupon! Now most of you readers may be too new to the BBW candle fandom but I remember fondly when candles were 19.50..yes you read that correctly... NINETEEN FIDDY!!! By the time I started getting really obsessed with BBW, the price went up 20.00 and there were the infamous 2for20 sales...made even better with $10off30 survey coupons given to you by your frie...

*sigh I've been really bored with BBW lately; honestly I haven't stepped inside a store since my last WALK N SNIFF and writing this one is truly the only reason I haven't continued to avoid going inside. I went to a standalone BBW store last week and a WB this week and I sniffed all but one scent, more about that later. Let's get into the Back to the Beach collection; as always, for the sake of brevity, I'll be skipping returning scents ie Waikiki Beach Coconut , Island Margarita , Mango Maitai , Pineapple Sunrise and Ocean Driftwood and Fiji White Sands Flamingo Beach (9022M8A1) This one was not what I was expecting..which I warn you will be an ongoing theme for all of the candles in this review.  I don't really know what this scent is trying to convey. The notes suggest a drink/cocktail of sorts but it's not a drink scents. It's also not what  would describe as tropical or beachy. Anyway, what you get something vaguely berry-ish, leaning more...